Spottswood
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Spottswood is the given name of Spottswood W. Robinson III, a prominent American civil rights attorney, law professor, and federal judge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spottswood canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5172623 — 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: Spottswood Context triple: [Spottswood W. Robinson III, givenName, Spottswood]
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A.
Cincinnatus Powell
Cincinnatus Powell was a professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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C.
Thomas Worthington
Thomas Worthington was an English Catholic priest and scholar best known for his role in editing and promoting the Douay–Rheims Bible during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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D.
Nicholas Herkimer
Nicholas Herkimer was an American Revolutionary War militia general from New York, best known for leading colonial forces at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777.
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E.
Charles Logan
Charles Logan is a fictional U.S. President and recurring antagonist in the television series "24," known for his corruption, cowardice, and involvement in high-level conspiracies.
- 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: Spottswood Target entity description: Spottswood is the given name of Spottswood W. Robinson III, a prominent American civil rights attorney, law professor, and federal judge.
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A.
Cincinnatus Powell
Cincinnatus Powell was a professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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C.
Thomas Worthington
Thomas Worthington was an English Catholic priest and scholar best known for his role in editing and promoting the Douay–Rheims Bible during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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D.
Nicholas Herkimer
Nicholas Herkimer was an American Revolutionary War militia general from New York, best known for leading colonial forces at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777.
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E.
Charles Logan
Charles Logan is a fictional U.S. President and recurring antagonist in the television series "24," known for his corruption, cowardice, and involvement in high-level conspiracies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American civil rights lawyer
ⓘ
federal judge ⓘ human ⓘ law professor ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| fieldOfWork | civil rights law ⓘ |
| genre | civil rights litigation ⓘ |
| givenName | Spottswood ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Robinson ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | III ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | United States law ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| name | Spottswood W. Robinson III ⓘ |
| notableFor |
service as a federal judge in the United States
ⓘ
teaching law as a professor ⓘ work as an American civil rights attorney ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights attorney
ⓘ
federal judge ⓘ law professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | federal judge in the United States judiciary ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Spottswood Description of subject: Spottswood is the given name of Spottswood W. Robinson III, a prominent American civil rights attorney, law professor, and federal judge.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.