Goodridge
E538575
Goodridge is a surname and place name of English origin that appears as a variant spelling of "Goodrich."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goodridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5635054 — 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: Goodridge Context triple: [Goodrich, hasVariant, Goodridge]
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A.
Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell v. Hodges is the landmark 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide by ruling that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.
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B.
Hollingsworth v. Perry
Hollingsworth v. Perry was a landmark 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that effectively restored same-sex marriage in California by dismissing an appeal over Proposition 8 for lack of standing.
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C.
Bowers v. Hardwick
Bowers v. Hardwick was a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing consensual same-sex intimacy, later overturned by Lawrence v. Texas in 2003.
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D.
Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia is a landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage, affirming marriage as a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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E.
United States v. Windsor
United States v. Windsor is a landmark 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down key parts of the Defense of Marriage Act, advancing federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
- 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: Goodridge Target entity description: Goodridge is a surname and place name of English origin that appears as a variant spelling of "Goodrich."
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A.
Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell v. Hodges is the landmark 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide by ruling that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.
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B.
Hollingsworth v. Perry
Hollingsworth v. Perry was a landmark 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that effectively restored same-sex marriage in California by dismissing an appeal over Proposition 8 for lack of standing.
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C.
Bowers v. Hardwick
Bowers v. Hardwick was a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing consensual same-sex intimacy, later overturned by Lawrence v. Texas in 2003.
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D.
Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia is a landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage, affirming marriage as a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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E.
United States v. Windsor
United States v. Windsor is a landmark 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down key parts of the Defense of Marriage Act, advancing federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
place name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English habitational surnames
ⓘ
English toponymic surnames ⓘ English-language surnames ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRelationTo | Goodrich ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNameType |
habitational surname
ⓘ
toponymic surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Elizabeth Goodridge
ⓘ
Francis Goodridge ⓘ Reginald Goodridge ⓘ Sarah Goodridge ⓘ Theodore Goodridge Roberts ⓘ |
| hasNotablePlace |
Goodridge, Alberta
ⓘ
Goodridge, Minnesota ⓘ |
| hasOriginCountry | England ⓘ |
| hasRelatedSurname |
Goodrich
ⓘ
Goodridge (disambiguation) ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpellingOf | Goodrich ⓘ |
| usedAs |
family name
ⓘ
place name ⓘ |
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: Goodridge Description of subject: Goodridge is a surname and place name of English origin that appears as a variant spelling of "Goodrich."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.