Gregory Bourke
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Gregory Bourke is an American LGBTQ+ rights activist known for his role as a lead plaintiff in the landmark same-sex marriage case Love v. Beshear.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gregory Bourke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6773484 — 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: Gregory Bourke Context triple: [Love v. Beshear, plaintiff, Gregory Bourke]
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A.
Patrick Crouse
Patrick Crouse is the father of American actress Zosia Mamet and the husband of writer and actress Lindsay Crouse.
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B.
Charles Dougherty
Charles Dougherty was a prominent 19th-century Georgia jurist and political figure for whom Dougherty County was named.
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C.
David J. Burke
David J. Burke is a television producer and writer best known for his work as an executive producer on the science fiction series SeaQuest DSV.
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D.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael O’Rourke is an Irish media entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the international sports television network Setanta Sports.
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E.
Gregory Bald
Gregory Bald is a scenic grassy summit in the Great Smoky Mountains renowned for its panoramic views and spectacular flame azalea displays.
- 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: Gregory Bourke Target entity description: Gregory Bourke is an American LGBTQ+ rights activist known for his role as a lead plaintiff in the landmark same-sex marriage case Love v. Beshear.
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A.
Patrick Crouse
Patrick Crouse is the father of American actress Zosia Mamet and the husband of writer and actress Lindsay Crouse.
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B.
Charles Dougherty
Charles Dougherty was a prominent 19th-century Georgia jurist and political figure for whom Dougherty County was named.
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C.
David J. Burke
David J. Burke is a television producer and writer best known for his work as an executive producer on the science fiction series SeaQuest DSV.
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D.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael O’Rourke is an Irish media entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the international sports television network Setanta Sports.
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E.
Gregory Bald
Gregory Bald is a scenic grassy summit in the Great Smoky Mountains renowned for its panoramic views and spectacular flame azalea displays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBT rights activist
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human ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
LGBTQ+ civil rights
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marriage equality ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
2015 Kentucky ACLU Roger Baldwin Award
NERFINISHED
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2016 Voice for Equality Award (Fairness Campaign) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Louisville, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bellarmine University
NERFINISHED
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University of Louisville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
LGBTQ+ rights
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civil rights ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | software consultant ⓘ |
| hasPart | Gregory Bourke and Michael DeLeon v. Steve Beshear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartner | Michael DeLeon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Catholicism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Michael DeLeon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Love v. Beshear
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
same-sex marriage case in Kentucky ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livesIn | Louisville, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fairness Campaign (Louisville) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
LGBT rights movement
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same-sex marriage movement in the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor |
LGBTQ+ rights activism
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advocacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church ⓘ challenging Kentucky’s ban on same-sex marriage ⓘ plaintiff in U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage litigation via Love v. Beshear ⓘ public advocacy as a gay Catholic ⓘ same-sex marriage litigation ⓘ |
| notableWork | Love v. Beshear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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information technology professional ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Gregory Bourke and Michael DeLeon v. Steve Beshear
NERFINISHED
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Love v. Beshear NERFINISHED ⓘ Obergefell v. Hodges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Obergefell v. Hodges consolidated cases NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Louisville, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
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| residence |
Kentucky
NERFINISHED
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Louisville, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | lead plaintiff in Love v. Beshear ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Michael DeLeon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Gregory Bourke Description of subject: Gregory Bourke is an American LGBTQ+ rights activist known for his role as a lead plaintiff in the landmark same-sex marriage case Love v. Beshear.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.