Roger Reeves
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Roger Reeves is an American worker best known as the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court age discrimination case Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Reeves canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7149274 — 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: Roger Reeves Context triple: [Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc., petitioner, Roger Reeves]
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A.
Edward Reeves
Edward Reeves was a teacher and mentor known for instructing Lionel Logue, the Australian speech therapist famous for treating King George VI.
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B.
Rex Hanson
Rex Hanson is a wealthy, arrogant antagonist in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2," known for scheming against the main characters.
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C.
Joe Wredden
Joe Wredden is an actor known for his role in the 2013 television miniseries "The Bible."
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D.
Michael Dorman
Michael Dorman is an Australian actor known for his roles in television series such as "For All Mankind," "Patriot," and "The Secret Life of Us."
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E.
Daniel Edward Reeves
Daniel Edward Reeves was an American football player and longtime NFL head coach best known for leading the Denver Broncos to three Super Bowl appearances in the 1980s.
- 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: Roger Reeves Target entity description: Roger Reeves is an American worker best known as the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court age discrimination case Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
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A.
Edward Reeves
Edward Reeves was a teacher and mentor known for instructing Lionel Logue, the Australian speech therapist famous for treating King George VI.
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B.
Rex Hanson
Rex Hanson is a wealthy, arrogant antagonist in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2," known for scheming against the main characters.
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C.
Joe Wredden
Joe Wredden is an actor known for his role in the 2013 television miniseries "The Bible."
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D.
Michael Dorman
Michael Dorman is an Australian actor known for his roles in television series such as "For All Mankind," "Patriot," and "The Secret Life of Us."
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E.
Daniel Edward Reeves
Daniel Edward Reeves was an American football player and longtime NFL head coach best known for leading the Denver Broncos to three Super Bowl appearances in the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
ⓘ
human ⓘ plaintiff ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States Supreme Court
ⓘ
linked to:
Supreme Court of the United States
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| knownFor | being plaintiff in an age discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court ⓘ |
| legalSubject | age discrimination ⓘ |
| notableFor | Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. ⓘ |
| occupation | worker ⓘ |
| partyToLawsuit | Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole | Roger Reeves ⓘ |
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: Roger Reeves Description of subject: Roger Reeves is an American worker best known as the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court age discrimination case Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Roger Reeves