Cranch
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Cranch refers to the early U.S. Supreme Court case reports compiled by William Cranch, which form part of the nominative reports later integrated into the United States Reports.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cranch canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T32898 — 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: Cranch Context triple: [United States Reports, includesNominativeReports, Cranch]
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A.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
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B.
Nelson
Nelson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, entertainment, and academia.
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C.
Flagg
Flagg is a surname most notably associated with American artist and illustrator James Montgomery Flagg, famed for creating the iconic "I Want YOU for U.S. Army" Uncle Sam poster.
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D.
Eureka
Eureka is a historic coastal city in Northern California known for its Victorian architecture, maritime heritage, and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
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E.
Durham boat
A Durham boat is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft cargo vessel historically used on North American rivers, notably employed by George Washington to transport troops across the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: Cranch Target entity description: Cranch refers to the early U.S. Supreme Court case reports compiled by William Cranch, which form part of the nominative reports later integrated into the United States Reports.
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A.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
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B.
Nelson
Nelson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, entertainment, and academia.
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C.
Flagg
Flagg is a surname most notably associated with American artist and illustrator James Montgomery Flagg, famed for creating the iconic "I Want YOU for U.S. Army" Uncle Sam poster.
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D.
Eureka
Eureka is a historic coastal city in Northern California known for its Victorian architecture, maritime heritage, and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
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E.
Durham boat
A Durham boat is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft cargo vessel historically used on North American rivers, notably employed by George Washington to transport troops across the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case reporter
ⓘ
nominative reports ⓘ |
| citationPractice | dual citation with United States Reports volume number ⓘ |
| compiledBy | William Cranch ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coversCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| follows |
Dallas Reports
ⓘ
surface form:
Dallas’s Reports
|
| hasAlternativeTitle |
Cranch Reports
ⓘ
surface form:
Cranch’s Reports
|
| hasReporter | William Cranch ⓘ |
| hasType | historical legal source ⓘ |
| includedIn | official U.S. Reports canon of Supreme Court decisions ⓘ |
| integratedInto | United States Reports official numbering ⓘ |
| isNamedAfter | William Cranch ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalDomain | case law reporting ⓘ |
| materialForm | printed law reports ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Reports ⓘ |
| precedes |
Wheaton Reports
ⓘ
surface form:
Wheaton’s Reports
|
| reporterNameUsedIn | nominative citation ⓘ |
| reporterRole | Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
constitutional law
ⓘ
early federal statutory interpretation ⓘ federal jurisdiction ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
judges
ⓘ
lawyers ⓘ legal scholars ⓘ |
| usedFor | citation of early U.S. Supreme Court decisions ⓘ |
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: Cranch Description of subject: Cranch refers to the early U.S. Supreme Court case reports compiled by William Cranch, which form part of the nominative reports later integrated into the United States Reports.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.