Telford Taylor
E10561
Telford Taylor was an American lawyer, military officer, and legal scholar best known for leading subsequent prosecutions of Nazi war criminals after World War II and later becoming a prominent critic of abuses of executive power.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Telford Taylor canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22795 — 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: Telford Taylor Context triple: [Nuremberg trials, notableProsecutor, Telford Taylor]
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A.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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B.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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C.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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D.
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice and a pioneering civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education, helping dismantle legal segregation in the United States.
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E.
Martin D. Ginsburg
Martin D. Ginsburg was a prominent American tax lawyer and law professor, noted both for his influential scholarship in tax law and his supportive partnership with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- 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: Telford Taylor Target entity description: Telford Taylor was an American lawyer, military officer, and legal scholar best known for leading subsequent prosecutions of Nazi war criminals after World War II and later becoming a prominent critic of abuses of executive power.
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A.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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B.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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C.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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D.
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice and a pioneering civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education, helping dismantle legal segregation in the United States.
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E.
Martin D. Ginsburg
Martin D. Ginsburg was a prominent American tax lawyer and law professor, noted both for his influential scholarship in tax law and his supportive partnership with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Telford Taylor Description of subject: Telford Taylor was an American lawyer, military officer, and legal scholar best known for leading subsequent prosecutions of Nazi war criminals after World War II and later becoming a prominent critic of abuses of executive power.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.