Cuthbert W. Pound
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Cuthbert W. Pound was an American jurist who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and was influential in the development of modern tort law.
All labels observed (1)
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| Cuthbert W. Pound canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4605181 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cuthbert W. Pound Context triple: [MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., judge, Cuthbert W. Pound]
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A.
Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound was an influential American legal scholar and educator, best known for developing the theory of sociological jurisprudence and serving as dean of Harvard Law School.
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B.
Christopher Columbus Langdell
Christopher Columbus Langdell was a 19th-century American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School who pioneered the case method of legal education.
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C.
Clarence Irving Lewis
Clarence Irving Lewis was an influential American philosopher and logician known for his work on modal logic, pragmatism, and the theory of knowledge.
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D.
Omar Pound
Omar Pound was an American-born writer, editor, and teacher of literature and Islamic studies, known both for his own scholarly work and as the son of poet Ezra Pound.
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E.
James M. Landis
James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cuthbert W. Pound Target entity description: Cuthbert W. Pound was an American jurist who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and was influential in the development of modern tort law.
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A.
Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound was an influential American legal scholar and educator, best known for developing the theory of sociological jurisprudence and serving as dean of Harvard Law School.
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B.
Christopher Columbus Langdell
Christopher Columbus Langdell was a 19th-century American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School who pioneered the case method of legal education.
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C.
Clarence Irving Lewis
Clarence Irving Lewis was an influential American philosopher and logician known for his work on modal logic, pragmatism, and the theory of knowledge.
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D.
Omar Pound
Omar Pound was an American-born writer, editor, and teacher of literature and Islamic studies, known both for his own scholarly work and as the son of poet Ezra Pound.
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E.
James M. Landis
James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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Chief Judge ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
New York law
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United States tort law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell Law School
NERFINISHED
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Cornell University ⓘ |
| employer |
Cornell Law School
NERFINISHED
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Cornell University NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Court of Appeals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American law
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jurisprudence ⓘ tort law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Chief Judge ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| memberOf | New York State Bar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to modern tort law
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service as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals ⓘ |
| notableWork | influence on the development of modern tort law ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| partOf | New York judiciary ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
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Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals ⓘ Dean of Cornell Law School ⓘ New York State Senator NERFINISHED ⓘ member of the New York Court of Appeals ⓘ member of the New York State Senate ⓘ |
| residence | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Ithaca, New York
NERFINISHED
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New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cuthbert W. Pound Description of subject: Cuthbert W. Pound was an American jurist who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and was influential in the development of modern tort law.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.