Texas Education Code §21.031
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Texas Education Code §21.031 was a Texas statute that denied state funding for the education of undocumented children and authorized school districts to exclude them from public schools.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Texas Education Code §21.031 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2568637 — 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: Texas Education Code §21.031 Context triple: [Plyler v. Doe, challengedStatute, Texas Education Code §21.031]
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A.
Texas Government Code
The Texas Government Code is a compilation of state laws that organizes and governs the structure, powers, and procedures of Texas government institutions and officials.
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B.
Texas Election Code
The Texas Election Code is the body of state law that comprehensively regulates the conduct, administration, and procedures of elections in Texas.
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C.
Texas Estates Code
The Texas Estates Code is a body of Texas state law that governs matters such as wills, probate, estate administration, and related proceedings in the state’s courts.
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D.
Texas Penal Code
The Texas Penal Code is the primary body of law in Texas that defines criminal offenses and prescribes their corresponding punishments.
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E.
Texas Natural Resources Code
The Texas Natural Resources Code is a body of state law that governs the conservation, management, and protection of Texas’s natural resources, including land, water, minerals, and cultural heritage sites.
- 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: Texas Education Code §21.031 Target entity description: Texas Education Code §21.031 was a Texas statute that denied state funding for the education of undocumented children and authorized school districts to exclude them from public schools.
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A.
Texas Government Code
The Texas Government Code is a compilation of state laws that organizes and governs the structure, powers, and procedures of Texas government institutions and officials.
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B.
Texas Election Code
The Texas Election Code is the body of state law that comprehensively regulates the conduct, administration, and procedures of elections in Texas.
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C.
Texas Estates Code
The Texas Estates Code is a body of Texas state law that governs matters such as wills, probate, estate administration, and related proceedings in the state’s courts.
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D.
Texas Penal Code
The Texas Penal Code is the primary body of law in Texas that defines criminal offenses and prescribes their corresponding punishments.
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E.
Texas Natural Resources Code
The Texas Natural Resources Code is a body of state law that governs the conservation, management, and protection of Texas’s natural resources, including land, water, minerals, and cultural heritage sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Texas statute
ⓘ
education law ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Texas public school districts
ⓘ
linked to:
Texas public school system
undocumented school-age children in Texas ⓘ |
| conflictsWith | right of undocumented children to equal protection in access to public education as recognized in Plyler v. Doe ⓘ |
| consequenceIfApplied | exclusion of undocumented children from free public education ⓘ |
| constitutionalIssue |
Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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linked to:
Equal Protection Clause
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| discriminatedOnBasisOf |
alienage
ⓘ
immigration status ⓘ |
| educationLevel | primary and secondary education ⓘ |
| effect |
authorized school districts to exclude undocumented children from public schools
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denied state funding for the education of undocumented children ⓘ |
| geographicScope | public schools in Texas ⓘ |
| heldUnconstitutionalBy | Plyler v. Doe ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | central provision challenged in Plyler v. Doe ⓘ |
| impact | prompted landmark Supreme Court decision on education rights of undocumented children ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Texas
|
| legalCode | Texas Education Code ⓘ |
| legalStatus | invalidated ⓘ |
| policyGoal | to restrict use of state education funds to children with lawful status ⓘ |
| reviewedByCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
immigration status of schoolchildren
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public education funding ⓘ |
| typeOfRestriction |
enrollment restriction
ⓘ
funding restriction ⓘ |
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: Texas Education Code §21.031 Description of subject: Texas Education Code §21.031 was a Texas statute that denied state funding for the education of undocumented children and authorized school districts to exclude them from public schools.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.