Butler
E83039
Butler is the party that served as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Butler, which addressed the constitutionality of certain New Deal agricultural policies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Butler canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T643800 — 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: Butler Context triple: [United States v. Butler, defendant, Butler]
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A.
Baldwin
Baldwin is a common English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures in literature, politics, and entertainment.
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B.
Earl
An Earl is a noble rank in the British and some European peerage systems, historically positioned below a marquess and above a viscount.
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C.
Reginald
Reginald is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including military officers, politicians, and artists.
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D.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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E.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
- 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: Butler Target entity description: Butler is the party that served as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Butler, which addressed the constitutionality of certain New Deal agricultural policies.
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A.
Baldwin
Baldwin is a common English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures in literature, politics, and entertainment.
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B.
Earl
An Earl is a noble rank in the British and some European peerage systems, historically positioned below a marquess and above a viscount.
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C.
Reginald
Reginald is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including military officers, politicians, and artists.
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D.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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E.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal case defendant
ⓘ
party to a lawsuit ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
agricultural regulation
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federalism ⓘ taxing and spending power ⓘ |
| caseCitation |
United States v. Butler
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surface form:
United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936)
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| caseType | constitutional law case ⓘ |
| constitutionalProvisionInvolved |
Taxing and Spending Clause
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surface form:
Spending Clause of the U.S. Constitution
Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
surface form:
Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
|
| countryOfJurisdiction | United States of America ⓘ |
| courtDecisionOutcome | Agricultural Adjustment Act held unconstitutional ⓘ |
| decisionYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| hasNotableFor |
being an early Supreme Court setback for New Deal legislation
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limiting federal power over agriculture through conditional spending ⓘ |
| isPartOf | New Deal era Supreme Court jurisprudence ⓘ |
| issueInCase |
constitutionality of federal agricultural policies
ⓘ
scope of the federal taxing and spending power ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfCase | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| legalQuestion | whether the Agricultural Adjustment Act exceeded Congress’s powers under the Constitution ⓘ |
| opponentInCase |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| partyInCase | United States v. Butler ⓘ |
| relatedDoctrine |
coercion through conditional federal spending
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general welfare clause interpretation ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
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New Deal ⓘ |
| roleInCase | 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: Butler Description of subject: Butler is the party that served as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Butler, which addressed the constitutionality of certain New Deal agricultural policies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.