Carolyn Whitener
E188869
Carolyn Whitener was the Oklahoma convenience store owner whose challenge to a gender-based alcohol sales law led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren, which established intermediate scrutiny for sex-based classifications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carolyn Whitener canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T616415 — 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: Carolyn Whitener Context triple: [Craig v. Boren, plaintiff, Carolyn Whitener]
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A.
Lyn Davis
Lyn Davis is best known as the wife of influential American television writer and producer Norman Lear.
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B.
Emily Drinkard
Emily Drinkard, better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston.
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C.
Diane Monson
Diane Monson is a California medical marijuana patient and activist who became a central figure in the U.S. Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich challenging federal authority over state-legal cannabis use.
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D.
Jocelyn Howard
Jocelyn Howard is an American television and film actress best known as the daughter of filmmaker and former child star Ron Howard.
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E.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
- 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: Carolyn Whitener Target entity description: Carolyn Whitener was the Oklahoma convenience store owner whose challenge to a gender-based alcohol sales law led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren, which established intermediate scrutiny for sex-based classifications.
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A.
Lyn Davis
Lyn Davis is best known as the wife of influential American television writer and producer Norman Lear.
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B.
Emily Drinkard
Emily Drinkard, better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston.
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C.
Diane Monson
Diane Monson is a California medical marijuana patient and activist who became a central figure in the U.S. Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich challenging federal authority over state-legal cannabis use.
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D.
Jocelyn Howard
Jocelyn Howard is an American television and film actress best known as the daughter of filmmaker and former child star Ron Howard.
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E.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business owner
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| businessLocation | Stillwater, Oklahoma ⓘ |
| caseNameDerivedFrom | Craig v. Boren ⓘ |
| caseResultSignificance |
contributed to establishment of intermediate scrutiny for sex-based classifications
ⓘ
involved in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court equal protection decision ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a party in the U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren
ⓘ
challenging Oklahoma’s gender-based alcohol sales law ⓘ |
| legalContext |
constitutional law of the United States
ⓘ
equal protection jurisprudence ⓘ |
| legalIssueInvolved |
Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
ⓘ
linked to:
Equal Protection Clause
gender-based alcohol sales restrictions ⓘ |
| legalStandingAs | vendor affected by Oklahoma’s alcohol sales law ⓘ |
| occupation | convenience store owner ⓘ |
| operated | convenience store in Stillwater, Oklahoma ⓘ |
| opposed | Oklahoma statute restricting 3.2% beer sales to males age 21 and females age 18 ⓘ |
| participantIn | Craig v. Boren ⓘ |
| relatedLegalDoctrine |
intermediate scrutiny
ⓘ
sex-based classifications under the Equal Protection Clause ⓘ |
| relatedPerson | Curtis Craig ⓘ |
| roleInCase |
appellee in Craig v. Boren
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linked to:
Craig v. Boren
plaintiff ⓘ |
| stateOfResidence | Oklahoma ⓘ |
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: Carolyn Whitener Description of subject: Carolyn Whitener was the Oklahoma convenience store owner whose challenge to a gender-based alcohol sales law led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren, which established intermediate scrutiny for sex-based classifications.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.