Walter Nelles
E24593
Walter Nelles was an American lawyer and civil liberties advocate best known as a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Nelles canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T78990 — 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: Walter Nelles Context triple: [American Civil Liberties Union, foundedBy, Walter Nelles]
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A.
Peter Amundson
Peter Amundson is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction action film "Pacific Rim."
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B.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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C.
Peder Sather
Peder Sather was a 19th-century Norwegian-born American banker and philanthropist known for his significant financial support of the University of California, Berkeley.
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D.
Detlev W. Bronk
Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
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E.
Harold A. Wheeler
Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
- 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: Walter Nelles Target entity description: Walter Nelles was an American lawyer and civil liberties advocate best known as a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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A.
Peter Amundson
Peter Amundson is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction action film "Pacific Rim."
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B.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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C.
Peder Sather
Peder Sather was a 19th-century Norwegian-born American banker and philanthropist known for his significant financial support of the University of California, Berkeley.
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D.
Detlev W. Bronk
Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
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E.
Harold A. Wheeler
Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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civil liberties advocate ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | American Civil Liberties Union ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia Law School
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University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia Law School
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Yale Law School ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil liberties law
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constitutional law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding the American Civil Liberties Union ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Civil Liberties Union ⓘ |
| movement |
civil liberties movement
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progressive movement in the United States ⓘ |
| name | Walter Nelles ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | civil liberties litigation in the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
law professor
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lawyer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
law professor at Columbia Law School
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law professor at Yale Law School ⓘ |
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: Walter Nelles Description of subject: Walter Nelles was an American lawyer and civil liberties advocate best known as a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.