Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan

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federal judge of the United States human judge jurist lawyer

Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan is an Indian-born American jurist who serves as the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and has been widely mentioned as a potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Padmanabhan Srikanth Srinivasan	2
Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12902550 — 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: Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan
Context triple: [Sri Srinivasan, fullName, Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan]

A. Narayanan Vijayaraj Alagarswami
Narayanan Vijayaraj Alagarswami, better known as Vijayakanth, is an Indian actor-turned-politician from Tamil Nadu who founded the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) party.
B. G. Srinivasan
G. Srinivasan is an Indian film producer known for his work on Tamil-language movies, including the 2007 film "Guru."
C. Laxman Narasimhan
Laxman Narasimhan is an Indian-American business executive best known as the chief executive officer of Starbucks and former CEO of Reckitt Benckiser.
D. Parthasarathy Srinivasan
Parthasarathy Srinivasan is the birth name of Kamal Haasan, the acclaimed Indian actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter known for his work in Tamil cinema and Indian film.
E. Venkataramanan Balakrishnan
Venkataramanan Balakrishnan is an engineer and academic known for his contributions to control theory and optimization, including collaborative work with Stephen P. Boyd.
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: Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan
Target entity description: Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan is an Indian-born American jurist who serves as the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and has been widely mentioned as a potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee.

A. Narayanan Vijayaraj Alagarswami
Narayanan Vijayaraj Alagarswami, better known as Vijayakanth, is an Indian actor-turned-politician from Tamil Nadu who founded the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) party.
B. G. Srinivasan
G. Srinivasan is an Indian film producer known for his work on Tamil-language movies, including the 2007 film "Guru."
C. Laxman Narasimhan
Laxman Narasimhan is an Indian-American business executive best known as the chief executive officer of Starbucks and former CEO of Reckitt Benckiser.
D. Parthasarathy Srinivasan
Parthasarathy Srinivasan is the birth name of Kamal Haasan, the acclaimed Indian actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter known for his work in Tamil cinema and Indian film.
E. Venkataramanan Balakrishnan
Venkataramanan Balakrishnan is an engineer and academic known for his contributions to control theory and optimization, including collaborative work with Stephen P. Boyd.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	federal judge of the United States ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ
academicDegree	Bachelor of Arts ⓘ Juris Doctor ⓘ Master of Business Administration ⓘ
appointedBy	Barack Obama ⓘ
assumedOffice	2013-05-28 ⓘ
countryOfBirth	India ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	India ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1967-02-23 ⓘ
dateOfNomination	2012-06-11 ⓘ
dateOfSenateConfirmation	2013-05-23 ⓘ
educatedAt	Stanford Graduate School of Business ⓘ Stanford Law School ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ
employer	United States federal judiciary ⓘ linked to: federal judiciary of the United States
ethnicGroup	Indian American ⓘ
familyName	Srinivasan ⓘ
fieldOfWork	appellate litigation ⓘ law ⓘ
givenName	Padmanabhan ⓘ Srikanth ⓘ
hasBeenMentionedAs	potential nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
languagesSpoken	English ⓘ Hindi ⓘ
memberOf	United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ⓘ
nickname	Sri ⓘ
nominatedBy	Barack Obama ⓘ
notableFor	being the first judge of South Asian descent on a U.S. federal appeals court ⓘ
notableWork	Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States ⓘ linked to: Deputy Solicitor General
occupation	judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Chandigarh ⓘ
positionHeld	Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ⓘ Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ⓘ Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States ⓘ
religion	Hinduism ⓘ
residence	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
startTime	2013-05-28 ⓘ
startTimeAsChiefJudge	2020-02-11 ⓘ
workLocation	Washington, D.C. ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sri Srinivasan → fullName → Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan ⓘ

subject linked to: Sri Srinivasan (as Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit)

Sri Srinivasan → fullName → Padmanabhan Srikanth Srinivasan ⓘ

linked to: Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan

Sri Srinivasan → birthName → Padmanabhan Srikanth Srinivasan ⓘ

subject linked to: Sri