Teresa Harris
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Teresa Harris is the employee whose workplace harassment claim led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., which clarified the standard for hostile work environment under Title VII.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Teresa Harris canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7094123 — 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: Teresa Harris Context triple: [Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., petitioner, Teresa Harris]
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A.
Gayle E. Harris
Gayle E. Harris is an American Episcopal bishop who has served as a suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, known for her leadership in social justice and church ministry.
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B.
Cherelle L. Parker
Cherelle L. Parker is an American politician who serves as the mayor of Philadelphia and is the first woman elected to the position in the city's history.
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C.
Lisa Hartman Black
Lisa Hartman Black is an American actress and singer known for her roles in television series like "Knots Landing" and for her musical collaborations with her husband, country singer Clint Black.
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D.
Chan Marshall
Chan Marshall, better known by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter and musician acclaimed for her emotionally raw vocals and minimalist, indie-rock and folk-influenced sound.
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E.
Hilary Geary Ross
Hilary Geary Ross is an American socialite, philanthropist, and society columnist known for her prominent role in New York and Palm Beach social circles.
- 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: Teresa Harris Target entity description: Teresa Harris is the employee whose workplace harassment claim led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., which clarified the standard for hostile work environment under Title VII.
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A.
Gayle E. Harris
Gayle E. Harris is an American Episcopal bishop who has served as a suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, known for her leadership in social justice and church ministry.
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B.
Cherelle L. Parker
Cherelle L. Parker is an American politician who serves as the mayor of Philadelphia and is the first woman elected to the position in the city's history.
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C.
Lisa Hartman Black
Lisa Hartman Black is an American actress and singer known for her roles in television series like "Knots Landing" and for her musical collaborations with her husband, country singer Clint Black.
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D.
Chan Marshall
Chan Marshall, better known by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter and musician acclaimed for her emotionally raw vocals and minimalist, indie-rock and folk-influenced sound.
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E.
Hilary Geary Ross
Hilary Geary Ross is an American socialite, philanthropist, and society columnist known for her prominent role in New York and Palm Beach social circles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
ⓘ
person ⓘ plaintiff ⓘ |
| alleged | hostile work environment ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw | employment discrimination law ⓘ |
| associatedLegalIssue |
hostile work environment standard
ⓘ
workplace sexual harassment ⓘ |
| caseCitedAs | Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. ⓘ |
| clarified | standard for hostile work environment under Title VII ⓘ |
| contributedTo | clarification of legal standard for hostile work environment ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employedBy | Forklift Systems, Inc. ⓘ |
| filed | workplace harassment claim ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. ⓘ |
| lawsuitJurisdiction |
United States federal courts
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. federal courts
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| lawsuitOutcomeSignificance | clarified standard for hostile work environment under Title VII ⓘ |
| lawsuitReachedCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ |
| legalBasisOfClaim | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ |
| name | Teresa Harris ⓘ |
| notableFor | workplace harassment claim in Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. ⓘ |
| party |
Forklift Systems, Inc.
ⓘ
Teresa Harris ⓘ |
| roleInLawsuit | plaintiff in Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. ⓘ |
| workplaceHarassmentType | hostile work environment ⓘ |
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: Teresa Harris Description of subject: Teresa Harris is the employee whose workplace harassment claim led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., which clarified the standard for hostile work environment under Title VII.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.