Breyer
E167741
family name
former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
human
judge
lawyer
surname
Breyer is a surname most prominently associated with Stephen G. Breyer, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Breyer canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1465785 — 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: Breyer Context triple: [Stephen G. Breyer, familyName, Breyer]
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A.
Bassett
Bassett is the surname of acclaimed American actress and director Angela Bassett, known for her powerful performances in film and television.
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B.
Birs
The Birs is a river in northwestern Switzerland that flows through the Jura region before joining the Rhine near Basel.
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C.
Pinsker
Pinsker is a Jewish surname most notably associated with Leo Pinsker, a 19th-century physician and early Zionist activist.
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D.
Oberholtzer
Oberholtzer is a German-origin surname, often associated with Mennonite and Amish families, that serves as a variant of the Overholt family name.
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E.
Ochs
Ochs is a surname most prominently associated with the Ochs-Sulzberger family, the longtime publishers and owners of The New York Times.
- 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: Breyer Target entity description: Breyer is a surname most prominently associated with Stephen G. Breyer, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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A.
Bassett
Bassett is the surname of acclaimed American actress and director Angela Bassett, known for her powerful performances in film and television.
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B.
Birs
The Birs is a river in northwestern Switzerland that flows through the Jura region before joining the Rhine near Basel.
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C.
Pinsker
Pinsker is a Jewish surname most notably associated with Leo Pinsker, a 19th-century physician and early Zionist activist.
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D.
Oberholtzer
Oberholtzer is a German-origin surname, often associated with Mennonite and Amish families, that serves as a variant of the Overholt family name.
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E.
Ochs
Ochs is a surname most prominently associated with the Ochs-Sulzberger family, the longtime publishers and owners of The New York Times.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Breyer Description of subject: Breyer is a surname most prominently associated with Stephen G. Breyer, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.