Bernard Hans
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Bernard Hans was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hans v. Louisiana, which helped define the scope of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernard Hans canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5099742 — 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: Bernard Hans Context triple: [Hans v. Louisiana, hasPetitioner, Bernard Hans]
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A.
Hans Meyer
Hans Meyer was a German geographer and mountaineer best known for leading the first successful ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro in 1889.
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B.
Bernard Zehrfuss
Bernard Zehrfuss was a prominent 20th-century French architect known for his modernist public and institutional buildings.
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C.
Hans-Werner Hector
Hans-Werner Hector is a German entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as one of the co-founders of the software company SAP.
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D.
Robert Hartmann
Robert Hartmann is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the semiconductor company Altera.
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E.
Kurt Diemberger
Kurt Diemberger is an Austrian mountaineer and filmmaker renowned as one of the few climbers to have made first ascents on two 8,000-meter peaks.
- 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: Bernard Hans Target entity description: Bernard Hans was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hans v. Louisiana, which helped define the scope of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
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A.
Hans Meyer
Hans Meyer was a German geographer and mountaineer best known for leading the first successful ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro in 1889.
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B.
Bernard Zehrfuss
Bernard Zehrfuss was a prominent 20th-century French architect known for his modernist public and institutional buildings.
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C.
Hans-Werner Hector
Hans-Werner Hector is a German entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as one of the co-founders of the software company SAP.
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D.
Robert Hartmann
Robert Hartmann is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the semiconductor company Altera.
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E.
Kurt Diemberger
Kurt Diemberger is an Austrian mountaineer and filmmaker renowned as one of the few climbers to have made first ascents on two 8,000-meter peaks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
constitutional law
ⓘ
federal courts law ⓘ |
| constitutionalProvisionInterpreted | Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| defendant |
State of Louisiana
ⓘ
linked to:
Louisiana
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| holding | a citizen cannot sue his own state in federal court without the state's consent ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States federal courts
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. federal courts
|
| legalSubject | state sovereign immunity ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| partyInCase | Hans v. Louisiana ⓘ |
| plaintiff | Bernard Hans ⓘ |
| role | plaintiff ⓘ |
| significance | helped define the scope of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment ⓘ |
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: Bernard Hans Description of subject: Bernard Hans was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hans v. Louisiana, which helped define the scope of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bernard Hans