Hackett
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Hackett is the middle name of David H. Souter, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hackett canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1225037 — 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: Hackett Context triple: [David H. Souter, middleName, Hackett]
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A.
Harrington
Harrington is a small coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its beaches, fishing, and proximity to the Manning River and Crowdy Bay National Park.
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B.
Hucknall
Hucknall is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, historically known for its coal mining industry and as the burial place of the poet Lord Byron.
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C.
Harbison
Harbison is a surname most notably associated with American composer John Harbison, known for his contributions to contemporary classical music.
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D.
Hart
Hart is a surname most famously associated with Moss Hart, the acclaimed American playwright and theater director known for works like "You Can't Take It with You" and "Once in a Lifetime."
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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: Hackett Target entity description: Hackett is the middle name of David H. Souter, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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A.
Harrington
Harrington is a small coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its beaches, fishing, and proximity to the Manning River and Crowdy Bay National Park.
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B.
Hucknall
Hucknall is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, historically known for its coal mining industry and as the burial place of the poet Lord Byron.
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C.
Harbison
Harbison is a surname most notably associated with American composer John Harbison, known for his contributions to contemporary classical music.
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D.
Hart
Hart is a surname most famously associated with Moss Hart, the acclaimed American playwright and theater director known for works like "You Can't Take It with You" and "Once in a Lifetime."
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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 (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
middle name ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George H. W. Bush ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-09-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
Harvard Law School ⓘ Magdalen College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 2009-06-29 ⓘ |
| familyName | Souter ⓘ |
| fullName |
David Hackett Souter
ⓘ
linked to:
David H. Souter
|
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| isMiddleNameOf |
David Hackett Souter
ⓘ
linked to:
David H. Souter
|
| memberOf | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| middleName |
Hackett
ⓘ
Hackett ⓘ |
| nominatedAs | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Melrose, Massachusetts, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Melrose, Massachusetts
|
| positionHeld | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| precededBy | William J. Brennan Jr. ⓘ |
| previousWork |
Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
ⓘ
Attorney General of New Hampshire ⓘ Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalianism ⓘ |
| startTime | 1990-10-09 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Sonia Sotomayor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Washington, D.C., United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington, D.C.
|
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: Hackett Description of subject: Hackett is the middle name of David H. Souter, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.