Owen Josephus Roberts
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Owen Josephus Roberts was an American lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (1930–1945) known for his pivotal role in shifting the Court’s stance on New Deal legislation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Owen J. Roberts | 10 |
| Owen Josephus Roberts canonical | 1 |
| Owen Roberts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1723888 — 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: Owen Josephus Roberts Context triple: [Owen J. Roberts, fullName, Owen Josephus Roberts]
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Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes was an American statesman and jurist who served as governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court justice and later chief justice, and U.S. secretary of state, and was the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
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Tom C. Clark
Tom C. Clark was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967 and previously as U.S. Attorney General under President Harry S. Truman.
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Paul V. McNutt
Paul V. McNutt was an American politician and diplomat who served as governor of Indiana, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and a prominent New Deal-era federal administrator.
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Luther L. Terry
Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
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Alphonso Taft
Alphonso Taft was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War, and was the father of President William Howard Taft.
- 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: Owen Josephus Roberts Target entity description: Owen Josephus Roberts was an American lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (1930–1945) known for his pivotal role in shifting the Court’s stance on New Deal legislation.
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A.
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes was an American statesman and jurist who served as governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court justice and later chief justice, and U.S. secretary of state, and was the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
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B.
Tom C. Clark
Tom C. Clark was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967 and previously as U.S. Attorney General under President Harry S. Truman.
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C.
Paul V. McNutt
Paul V. McNutt was an American politician and diplomat who served as governor of Indiana, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and a prominent New Deal-era federal administrator.
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D.
Luther L. Terry
Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
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E.
Alphonso Taft
Alphonso Taft was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War, and was the father of President William Howard Taft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Owen Josephus Roberts Description of subject: Owen Josephus Roberts was an American lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (1930–1945) known for his pivotal role in shifting the Court’s stance on New Deal legislation.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Justice Owen J. Roberts
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Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States
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Justice Harold H. Burton
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