Victor C. Swearingen
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Victor C. Swearingen was an American judge who served on the U.S. military tribunal that prosecuted Nazi physicians for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the post–World War II Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Victor C. Swearingen canonical | 4 |
| Victor Swearingen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1893844 — 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: Victor C. Swearingen Context triple: [Doctors' Trial, alternateJudge, Victor C. Swearingen]
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A.
Arthur E. Bryson Jr.
Arthur E. Bryson Jr. is a pioneering control theorist and aerospace engineer often regarded as a founder of modern optimal control theory.
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B.
Russell Vought
Russell Vought is an American political operative and policy advisor who served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump.
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C.
Herb Kelleher
Herb Kelleher was an American entrepreneur and lawyer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines, where he pioneered low-cost, customer-friendly air travel.
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D.
James G. Anderson
James G. Anderson is an American atmospheric chemist known for his pioneering research on ozone layer depletion and climate change.
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E.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
- 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: Victor C. Swearingen Target entity description: Victor C. Swearingen was an American judge who served on the U.S. military tribunal that prosecuted Nazi physicians for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the post–World War II Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg.
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A.
Arthur E. Bryson Jr.
Arthur E. Bryson Jr. is a pioneering control theorist and aerospace engineer often regarded as a founder of modern optimal control theory.
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B.
Russell Vought
Russell Vought is an American political operative and policy advisor who served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump.
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C.
Herb Kelleher
Herb Kelleher was an American entrepreneur and lawyer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines, where he pioneered low-cost, customer-friendly air travel.
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D.
James G. Anderson
James G. Anderson is an American atmospheric chemist known for his pioneering research on ozone layer depletion and climate change.
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E.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American judge
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
United States military
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Armed Forces
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| fieldOfWork |
law
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military justice ⓘ |
| genre |
crimes against humanity prosecutions
ⓘ
war crimes trials ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
U.S. military tribunal at Nuremberg
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal I
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| memberOf |
U.S. military tribunal in the Doctors' Trial
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linked to:
U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal I
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| notableFor | serving as a judge in the post–World War II Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg ⓘ |
| notableWork | judicial decisions in the Doctors' Trial ⓘ |
| occupation | judge ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Doctors' Trial
ⓘ
Nuremberg Military Tribunals ⓘ
linked to:
Nuremberg trials
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| role | judge on the U.S. military tribunal in the Doctors' Trial ⓘ |
| saidToBeSameAs |
Victor Swearingen
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linked to:
Victor C. Swearingen
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| subjectOf | post–World War II war crimes proceedings ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Germany
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Nuremberg ⓘ |
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: Victor C. Swearingen Description of subject: Victor C. Swearingen was an American judge who served on the U.S. military tribunal that prosecuted Nazi physicians for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the post–World War II Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Victor C. Swearingen