John Kelly
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John Kelly was the welfare recipient whose challenge to benefit termination procedures led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court due process case Goldberg v. Kelly.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Kelly canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2827459 — 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: John Kelly Context triple: [Goldberg v. Kelly, party, John Kelly]
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A.
John J. Kelly
John J. Kelly was a United States military serviceman whose distinguished service led to his burial at Golden Gate National Cemetery.
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B.
John F. Kelly
John F. Kelly is a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served in the Trump administration, including as White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security.
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C.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
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D.
Richard Priebus
Richard Priebus is the father of former Republican National Committee chairman and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
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E.
Mark Schweiker
Mark Schweiker is an American politician who served as the 44th governor of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s.
- 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: John Kelly Target entity description: John Kelly was the welfare recipient whose challenge to benefit termination procedures led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court due process case Goldberg v. Kelly.
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A.
John J. Kelly
John J. Kelly was a United States military serviceman whose distinguished service led to his burial at Golden Gate National Cemetery.
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B.
John F. Kelly
John F. Kelly is a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served in the Trump administration, including as White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security.
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C.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
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D.
Richard Priebus
Richard Priebus is the father of former Republican National Committee chairman and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
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E.
Mark Schweiker
Mark Schweiker is an American politician who served as the 44th governor of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
welfare recipient ⓘ |
| assertedRight | procedural due process under the Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegalDoctrine |
due process
ⓘ
pre-termination hearing requirement for welfare benefits ⓘ procedural due process ⓘ |
| caseDecidedBy | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| caseDecisionYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| connectedToConcept |
entitlement theory of government benefits
ⓘ
property interest in public assistance benefits ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasLegalSignificance |
his case established that welfare benefits are a form of statutory entitlement protected by due process
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his case led to requirement of evidentiary hearing before termination of certain public benefits ⓘ |
| influenced | procedures for termination of welfare benefits across the United States ⓘ |
| involvedIn | challenge to benefit termination procedures in New York City ⓘ |
| legalAction | challenged termination of public assistance benefits without prior hearing ⓘ |
| legalRightClaimed | notice and opportunity for a hearing before termination of benefits ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the named welfare recipient in Goldberg v. Kelly ⓘ |
| opposedBy | George K. W. Goldberg (Commissioner of Social Services of New York City) ⓘ |
| partyTo | Goldberg v. Kelly ⓘ |
| received |
public assistance benefits
ⓘ
welfare benefits ⓘ |
| relatedAreaOfLaw |
administrative law
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constitutional law ⓘ social welfare law ⓘ |
| roleInCourtCase | plaintiff in Goldberg v. Kelly ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Goldberg v. Kelly (1970) U.S. Supreme Court decision
ⓘ
linked to:
Goldberg v. Kelly
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| timePeriodOfCase | late 1960s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: John Kelly Description of subject: John Kelly was the welfare recipient whose challenge to benefit termination procedures led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court due process case Goldberg v. Kelly.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.