Jonathan O'Mara
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Jonathan O'Mara was one of the individuals prosecuted in the cross-burning case that led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Virginia v. Black, which addressed the constitutionality of a state statute banning cross burning with intent to intimidate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonathan O'Mara canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7582141 — 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: Jonathan O'Mara Context triple: [Virginia v. Black, respondent, Jonathan O'Mara]
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A.
Gareth H. McKinley
Gareth H. McKinley is a prominent mechanical engineer and rheologist known for his influential research on complex fluids and non-Newtonian flow behavior.
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B.
Jonathan Speirs
Jonathan Speirs was a renowned Scottish architectural lighting designer known for co-founding influential lighting design practices and shaping the illumination of landmark buildings worldwide.
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C.
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is a British computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher known for his leading role in promoting open data and digital governance.
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D.
Matt Strevens
Matt Strevens is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the revived era of Doctor Who.
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E.
Jonathan Peter Wilkinson
Jonathan Peter Wilkinson is a former English rugby union fly-half renowned for his pivotal role in England's 2003 Rugby World Cup victory, including kicking the winning drop goal in the final.
- 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: Jonathan O'Mara Target entity description: Jonathan O'Mara was one of the individuals prosecuted in the cross-burning case that led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Virginia v. Black, which addressed the constitutionality of a state statute banning cross burning with intent to intimidate.
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A.
Gareth H. McKinley
Gareth H. McKinley is a prominent mechanical engineer and rheologist known for his influential research on complex fluids and non-Newtonian flow behavior.
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B.
Jonathan Speirs
Jonathan Speirs was a renowned Scottish architectural lighting designer known for co-founding influential lighting design practices and shaping the illumination of landmark buildings worldwide.
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C.
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is a British computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher known for his leading role in promoting open data and digital governance.
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D.
Matt Strevens
Matt Strevens is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the revived era of Doctor Who.
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E.
Jonathan Peter Wilkinson
Jonathan Peter Wilkinson is a former English rugby union fly-half renowned for his pivotal role in England's 2003 Rugby World Cup victory, including kicking the winning drop goal in the final.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
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criminal defendant ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegalCase | Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343 (2003) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chargedUnder | Virginia statute banning cross burning with intent to intimidate ⓘ |
| concerns | constitutionality of a Virginia statute banning cross burning with intent to intimidate ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasLegalProceeding | prosecution for cross burning ⓘ |
| legalIssueInCase | constitutionality of a state statute banning cross burning with intent to intimidate ⓘ |
| legalSubject |
First Amendment
NERFINISHED
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freedom of speech ⓘ hate speech regulation ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a defendant in the cross-burning prosecution that led to Virginia v. Black ⓘ |
| participantIn | Virginia v. Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | defendant in cross-burning case ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole | Jonathan O'Mara as criminal defendant ⓘ |
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: Jonathan O'Mara Description of subject: Jonathan O'Mara was one of the individuals prosecuted in the cross-burning case that led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Virginia v. Black, which addressed the constitutionality of a state statute banning cross burning with intent to intimidate.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.