Stephen Trott
E280836
American lawyer
United States court of appeals judge
United States federal judge
federal judge
human
judge
lawyer
Stephen Trott is an American lawyer and former federal official who later served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephen Trott canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2593397 — 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: Stephen Trott Context triple: [Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, officeHolders, Stephen Trott]
-
A.
David J. Wetherall
David J. Wetherall is a computer scientist and academic known for his influential work and textbooks in computer networking.
-
B.
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is a British computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher known for his leading role in promoting open data and digital governance.
-
C.
Colin Prockter
Colin Prockter is a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the crime comedy film "The Gentlemen."
-
D.
Stephen Lipson
Stephen Lipson is a British record producer, guitarist, and songwriter known for his work with artists such as Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
-
E.
Peter A. Tyrrell
Peter A. Tyrrell was an American sports executive and promoter best known for his role in establishing and developing the early professional basketball franchise that became the Philadelphia Warriors.
- 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: Stephen Trott Target entity description: Stephen Trott is an American lawyer and former federal official who later served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
-
A.
David J. Wetherall
David J. Wetherall is a computer scientist and academic known for his influential work and textbooks in computer networking.
-
B.
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is a British computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher known for his leading role in promoting open data and digital governance.
-
C.
Colin Prockter
Colin Prockter is a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the crime comedy film "The Gentlemen."
-
D.
Stephen Lipson
Stephen Lipson is a British record producer, guitarist, and songwriter known for his work with artists such as Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
-
E.
Peter A. Tyrrell
Peter A. Tyrrell was an American sports executive and promoter best known for his role in establishing and developing the early professional basketball franchise that became the Philadelphia Warriors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
ⓘ
United States court of appeals judge ⓘ United States federal judge ⓘ federal judge ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Boise State University
ⓘ
Harvard Law School ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| familyName | Trott ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
judiciary
ⓘ
law ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Ninth Circuit
ⓘ
United States federal courts ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. federal courts
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ⓘ |
| occupation |
federal official
ⓘ
judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Ninth Circuit
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Stephen Trott Description of subject: Stephen Trott is an American lawyer and former federal official who later served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.