Scott Walker
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Scott Walker is an American Republican politician who served as the 45th governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019 and gained national prominence for his contentious public-sector union reforms.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scott Walker canonical | 18 |
| Governor Scott Walker | 1 |
| Scott Walker (politician) | 1 |
| Scott Walker presidential campaign, 2016 | 1 |
| former Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T936667 — 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: Scott Walker Context triple: [Marquette University, hasNotableAlumni, Scott Walker]
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A.
Thomas S. Ricketts
Thomas S. Ricketts is an American businessman best known as the chairman and co-owner of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball franchise.
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B.
Peter B. Chiafalo
Peter B. Chiafalo is an American presidential elector known for challenging state laws that bind Electoral College members to support their party’s nominee, leading to the U.S. Supreme Court case Chiafalo v. Washington.
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C.
Jim Inhofe
Jim Inhofe is a conservative Republican politician from Oklahoma who served for decades in the U.S. Senate, where he was known for his leadership on defense issues and his skepticism of climate change.
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D.
Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander is an American politician and educator who served as governor of Tennessee, U.S. Secretary of Education, and a long-time U.S. senator.
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E.
Ben Sasse
Ben Sasse is an American academic and politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska before becoming president of the University of Florida.
- 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: Scott Walker Target entity description: Scott Walker is an American Republican politician who served as the 45th governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019 and gained national prominence for his contentious public-sector union reforms.
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A.
Thomas S. Ricketts
Thomas S. Ricketts is an American businessman best known as the chairman and co-owner of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball franchise.
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B.
Peter B. Chiafalo
Peter B. Chiafalo is an American presidential elector known for challenging state laws that bind Electoral College members to support their party’s nominee, leading to the U.S. Supreme Court case Chiafalo v. Washington.
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C.
Jim Inhofe
Jim Inhofe is a conservative Republican politician from Oklahoma who served for decades in the U.S. Senate, where he was known for his leadership on defense issues and his skepticism of climate change.
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D.
Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander is an American politician and educator who served as governor of Tennessee, U.S. Secretary of Education, and a long-time U.S. senator.
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E.
Ben Sasse
Ben Sasse is an American academic and politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska before becoming president of the University of Florida.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
governor
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| candidateIn | 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource | American news media ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Marquette University ⓘ |
| electionOutcome | lost 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election to Tony Evers ⓘ |
| endorsedBy | Americans for Prosperity ⓘ |
| endTime | 2019-01-07 ⓘ |
| familyName | Walker ⓘ |
| givenName | Scott ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Alex Walker
ⓘ
Matt Walker ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole | key Republican figure in early 2010s state-level politics ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
budget repair bill of 2011
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limiting collective bargaining rights for public employees ⓘ public-sector union reforms in Wisconsin ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Act 10 collective bargaining law
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Wisconsin public-sector union reforms ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | President of the United States ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 45th Governor of Wisconsin ⓘ |
| participantIn |
2010 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
ⓘ
2011 Wisconsin protests ⓘ 2012 Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election ⓘ 2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial election ⓘ 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Wisconsin
ⓘ
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly ⓘ Milwaukee County Executive ⓘ |
| positionOnIssue |
opposed Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin
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opposed expansion of public-sector collective bargaining ⓘ supported right-to-work legislation ⓘ supported tax cuts in Wisconsin ⓘ supported voter ID laws ⓘ |
| precededBy | Jim Doyle ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Madison, Wisconsin
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linked to:
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin ⓘ
linked to:
City of Wauwatosa
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Tonette Walker ⓘ |
| startTime | 2011-01-03 ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Tony Evers ⓘ |
| supportedBy | Tea Party movement ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Madison, Wisconsin
ⓘ
linked to:
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
|
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: Scott Walker Description of subject: Scott Walker is an American Republican politician who served as the 45th governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019 and gained national prominence for his contentious public-sector union reforms.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Scott Walker
linked to: Scott Walker
linked to: Scott Walker
subject linked to:
"Citizen Koch"
linked to: Scott Walker