Graydon Earl Comstock Jr.
E202025
Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. is a federal criminal defendant whose challenge to post-sentence civil commitment of certain sex offenders led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Comstock.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T434667 — 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: Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. Context triple: [United States v. Comstock, party, Graydon Earl Comstock Jr.]
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A.
Roswell Miller Jr.
Roswell Miller Jr. was an American businessman best known as the husband of philanthropist Margaret Carnegie Miller, daughter of industrialist Andrew Carnegie.
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B.
Harold F. Gosnell
Harold F. Gosnell was an influential American political scientist known for pioneering empirical and methodological approaches to the study of elections and political behavior.
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C.
Robert Folsom
Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
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D.
George Pardee
George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
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E.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
- 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: Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. Target entity description: Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. is a federal criminal defendant whose challenge to post-sentence civil commitment of certain sex offenders led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Comstock.
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A.
Roswell Miller Jr.
Roswell Miller Jr. was an American businessman best known as the husband of philanthropist Margaret Carnegie Miller, daughter of industrialist Andrew Carnegie.
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B.
Harold F. Gosnell
Harold F. Gosnell was an influential American political scientist known for pioneering empirical and methodological approaches to the study of elections and political behavior.
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C.
Robert Folsom
Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
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D.
George Pardee
George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
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E.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal criminal defendant
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person ⓘ |
| caseDecisionDate | 2010 ⓘ |
| caseOutcomeSummary | Supreme Court upheld federal authority to civilly commit certain sexually dangerous persons already in federal custody ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| courtCaseHeardBy | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
constitutional law
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criminal law ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| legalIssueInvolved |
post-sentence civil commitment of certain sex offenders
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scope of federal authority under the Necessary and Proper Clause ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the named respondent in United States v. Comstock ⓘ |
| partyToCase | United States v. Comstock ⓘ |
| relatedStatute | 18 U.S.C. § 4248 ⓘ |
| roleInCase | respondent ⓘ |
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: Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. Description of subject: Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. is a federal criminal defendant whose challenge to post-sentence civil commitment of certain sex offenders led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Comstock.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.