James Plyler
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James Plyler was the superintendent of the Tyler, Texas Independent School District who became the named petitioner in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe challenging the denial of public education to undocumented children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Plyler canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2568633 — 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: James Plyler Context triple: [Plyler v. Doe, hasPetitioner, James Plyler]
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A.
Douglas John Fisher
Douglas John Fisher is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the spiritual and administrative leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts.
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B.
James Heckman
James Heckman is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on econometrics and the economics of human development, particularly the importance of early childhood education and skill formation.
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C.
David Learner
David Learner is a British actor best known for physically portraying Marvin the Paranoid Android in the BBC television adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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D.
Iven C. Kincheloe Jr.
Iven C. Kincheloe Jr. was a pioneering U.S. Air Force test pilot and Korean War ace renowned for his high-altitude experimental flights and contributions to early spaceflight research.
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E.
Pat Hanrahan
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics pioneer, Stanford professor, and Turing Award–winning researcher best known for co-founding Tableau and his influential work on rendering and visualization.
- 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: James Plyler Target entity description: James Plyler was the superintendent of the Tyler, Texas Independent School District who became the named petitioner in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe challenging the denial of public education to undocumented children.
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A.
Douglas John Fisher
Douglas John Fisher is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the spiritual and administrative leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts.
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B.
James Heckman
James Heckman is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on econometrics and the economics of human development, particularly the importance of early childhood education and skill formation.
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C.
David Learner
David Learner is a British actor best known for physically portraying Marvin the Paranoid Android in the BBC television adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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D.
Iven C. Kincheloe Jr.
Iven C. Kincheloe Jr. was a pioneering U.S. Air Force test pilot and Korean War ace renowned for his high-altitude experimental flights and contributions to early spaceflight research.
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E.
Pat Hanrahan
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics pioneer, Stanford professor, and Turing Award–winning researcher best known for co-founding Tableau and his influential work on rendering and visualization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. state
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United States Supreme Court case ⓘ city ⓘ person ⓘ public school district ⓘ |
| citation | 457 U.S. 202 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decisionYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| employer | Tyler Independent School District ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | public education administration ⓘ |
| hasLegalRole | named petitioner in Plyler v. Doe ⓘ |
| holding | states cannot deny free public education to children based on immigration status ⓘ |
| issue | denial of public education to undocumented children ⓘ |
| legalSubject |
right to public education
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undocumented immigrant children ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Texas ⓘ |
| location |
Tyler, Texas
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United States of America ⓘ |
| name | James Plyler ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the named petitioner in Plyler v. Doe ⓘ |
| notableWork | Plyler v. Doe ⓘ |
| occupation | school superintendent ⓘ |
| originatedIn |
Tyler Independent School District
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Tyler, Texas ⓘ |
| participantIn | Plyler v. Doe ⓘ |
| positionHeld | superintendent of Tyler Independent School District ⓘ |
| role | petitioner in Plyler v. Doe ⓘ |
| workLocation | Tyler, Texas ⓘ |
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: James Plyler Description of subject: James Plyler was the superintendent of the Tyler, Texas Independent School District who became the named petitioner in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe challenging the denial of public education to undocumented children.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.