Souter
E139410
Souter is a surname most prominently associated with David H. Souter, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Souter canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1225038 — 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: Souter Context triple: [David H. Souter, familyName, Souter]
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A.
Southery
Southery is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, situated in the Fens near the River Great Ouse.
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B.
Sutherland
Sutherland is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, best known for its exceptionally clear night skies and major astronomical observatories.
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C.
Hannington
Hannington is a small rural village in Wiltshire, England, known for its traditional English countryside setting and historic character.
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D.
Ledeacker
Ledeacker is a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, now part of the municipality of Land van Cuijk.
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E.
Robnett
Robnett is a given middle name that appears in the full name of individuals such as the American politician and jurist James Lick Robnett.
- 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: Souter Target entity description: Souter is a surname most prominently associated with David H. Souter, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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A.
Southery
Southery is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, situated in the Fens near the River Great Ouse.
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B.
Sutherland
Sutherland is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, best known for its exceptionally clear night skies and major astronomical observatories.
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C.
Hannington
Hannington is a small rural village in Wiltshire, England, known for its traditional English countryside setting and historic character.
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D.
Ledeacker
Ledeacker is a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, now part of the municipality of Land van Cuijk.
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E.
Robnett
Robnett is a given middle name that appears in the full name of individuals such as the American politician and jurist James Lick Robnett.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American judge
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| 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 | as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: 2009-06-29 ⓘ |
| familyName | Souter ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | David H. Souter ⓘ |
| knownFor |
pragmatic judicial philosophy
ⓘ
service on the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Scottish ⓘ |
| memberOf | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| nominatedAsJusticeOf | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Melrose, Massachusetts, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Melrose, Massachusetts
|
| politicalAlignment | judicial moderate ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| precededBy | William J. Brennan Jr. ⓘ |
| previousPositionHeld |
Attorney General of New Hampshire
ⓘ
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ⓘ Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime | as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: 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: Souter Description of subject: Souter is a surname most prominently associated with 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.