Carrie Buck
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Carrie Buck was the young Virginia woman whose forced sterilization case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell decision upholding eugenic sterilization laws.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carrie Buck canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4594648 — 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: Carrie Buck Context triple: [Buck v. Bell opinion, hasPetitioner, Carrie Buck]
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A.
Dollree Mapp
Dollree Mapp was the Cleveland woman whose challenge to an unlawful police search led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mapp v. Ohio, which applied the exclusionary rule to the states.
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B.
Josephine Stovall
Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
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C.
Mary Shackelford
Mary Shackelford is the second ex-wife of comedian and television host Steve Harvey, with whom she was married in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
Clementina Shorter
Clementina Shorter was the wife of British journalist and literary critic Clement Shorter, associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century English literary scene.
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E.
Mildred Davis
Mildred Davis was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles opposite comedian Harold Lloyd in the 1920s.
- 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: Carrie Buck Target entity description: Carrie Buck was the young Virginia woman whose forced sterilization case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell decision upholding eugenic sterilization laws.
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A.
Dollree Mapp
Dollree Mapp was the Cleveland woman whose challenge to an unlawful police search led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mapp v. Ohio, which applied the exclusionary rule to the states.
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B.
Josephine Stovall
Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
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C.
Mary Shackelford
Mary Shackelford is the second ex-wife of comedian and television host Steve Harvey, with whom she was married in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
Clementina Shorter
Clementina Shorter was the wife of British journalist and literary critic Clement Shorter, associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century English literary scene.
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E.
Mildred Davis
Mildred Davis was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles opposite comedian Harold Lloyd in the 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Commonwealth of Virginia ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
U.S. Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell (1927)
ⓘ
linked to:
Buck v. Bell opinion
historical studies of American eugenics ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| familyName | Buck ⓘ |
| givenName | Carrie ⓘ |
| hasCause | forced sterilization ⓘ |
| hasChild | Vivian Buck ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalReputation | symbol of abuses of eugenics ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasLegalRepresentation | court-appointed attorney ⓘ |
| hasMaritalStatus |
divorced
ⓘ
married ⓘ |
| hasMother | Emma Buck ⓘ |
| hasNotableQuoteAboutHerCase | "Three generations of imbeciles are enough" (Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., about Buck family) ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | domestic worker ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| hasRole | plaintiff ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatus | working-class ⓘ |
| hasTitle | test case for Virginia eugenics law ⓘ |
| influenced |
bioethics debates on involuntary sterilization
ⓘ
later criticism of eugenics ⓘ reproductive rights jurisprudence ⓘ |
| legalCase |
Buck v. Bell
ⓘ
linked to:
Buck v. Bell opinion
|
| legalCaseJurisdiction | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| legalCaseOutcomeForHer | sterilization order upheld ⓘ |
| legalCaseYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| legalStatusInCase | deemed "feeble-minded" by authorities ⓘ |
| lifeEvent |
gave birth to a daughter before sterilization case
ⓘ
placed in institutional care in Virginia ⓘ |
| name | Carrie Buck ⓘ |
| notableEvent | sterilization under Virginia eugenics law ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the plaintiff in Buck v. Bell ⓘ |
| opposedBy | civil liberties advocates (retrospectively) ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of eugenics in the United States
ⓘ
history of reproductive rights in the United States ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Virginia ⓘ |
| residence | Virginia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Buck v. Bell
ⓘ
linked to:
Buck v. Bell opinion
|
| victimOf |
eugenic sterilization laws
ⓘ
forced sterilization ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Carrie Buck Description of subject: Carrie Buck was the young Virginia woman whose forced sterilization case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell decision upholding eugenic sterilization laws.
Referenced by (5)
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