Stephen
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Stephen is the given name of Stephen G. Breyer, an American jurist and former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1465783 — 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: Stephen Context triple: [Stephen G. Breyer, givenName, Stephen]
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A.
Stephen
Stephen is the formal given name of Steve Wozniak, the American computer engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
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B.
Stephen
Stephen is the middle name of Harold Stephen Black, an American electrical engineer known for inventing the negative feedback amplifier.
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C.
Stephen
Stephen is the full given name of former Scottish footballer and manager Steve Nicol, best known for his successful career with Liverpool FC in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Stephen
Stephen is the first name of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States.
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E.
Stephen
Stephen is a prominent early Christian figure known as the first Christian martyr, whose story is recounted in the New Testament book of Acts.
- 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: Stephen Target entity description: Stephen is the given name of Stephen G. Breyer, an American jurist and former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A.
Stephen
Stephen is the given name of Stephen Strasburg, an American professional baseball pitcher known for his career with the Washington Nationals.
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B.
Stephen
Stephen is the first name of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States.
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C.
Stephen
Stephen is the given first name of Steve Case, the American entrepreneur and co-founder of AOL.
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D.
Stephen
Stephen is the given name of Stephen Decatur, a renowned early 19th-century United States naval officer celebrated for his heroism in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.
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E.
Stephen
Stephen is the formal given name of Steve Wozniak, the American computer engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
ⓘ
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics ⓘ Bachelor of Laws ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Bill Clinton ⓘ |
| birthPlace | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Law School
ⓘ
Magdalen College, Oxford ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard Law School
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ United States federal judiciary ⓘ
linked to:
federal judiciary of the United States
|
| familyName | Breyer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
administrative law
ⓘ
constitutional law ⓘ jurisprudence ⓘ |
| fullName |
Stephen Gerald Breyer
ⓘ
linked to:
Stephen G. Breyer
|
| givenName | Stephen ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Chloe Breyer
ⓘ
Michael Breyer ⓘ Nadine Breyer ⓘ |
| ideology | liberal jurisprudence ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of judicial restraint
ⓘ
emphasis on consequences in constitutional interpretation ⓘ support for administrative agencies ⓘ |
| legalPhilosophy | pragmatism ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
ⓘ
American Philosophical Society ⓘ Judicial Conference of the United States ⓘ Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Active Liberty
ⓘ
Breaking the Deadlock ⓘ Making Our Democracy Work ⓘ
linked to:
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View
The Court and the World ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ law professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
ⓘ
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ⓘ Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joanna Freda Hare
ⓘ
linked to:
Joanna Freda Hare Breyer
|
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: Stephen Description of subject: Stephen is the given name of Stephen G. Breyer, an American jurist and former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.