Jack R. Goldberg
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Jack R. Goldberg was the New York City welfare administrator whose official actions led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Goldberg v. Kelly on due process rights in public assistance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack R. Goldberg canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2827460 — 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: Jack R. Goldberg Context triple: [Goldberg v. Kelly, party, Jack R. Goldberg]
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A.
Richard Goldman
Richard Goldman was an American philanthropist and environmentalist best known for co-founding the Goldman Environmental Prize and supporting public policy and environmental causes.
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B.
Neil Goldman
Neil Goldman is a recurring nerdy, socially awkward teenage character in the animated TV series "Family Guy," often portrayed as infatuated with Meg Griffin.
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C.
Fred T. Goldberg Jr.
Fred T. Goldberg Jr. is an American attorney and former U.S. government official who served as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in the early 1990s.
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D.
Donald Rubin
Donald Rubin was an American businessman, philanthropist, and art collector best known for co-founding the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, which specializes in Himalayan and Tibetan art.
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E.
Sidney Finkelstein
Sidney Finkelstein was an American Marxist literary and music critic known for his analyses of culture and the arts from a leftist perspective.
- 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: Jack R. Goldberg Target entity description: Jack R. Goldberg was the New York City welfare administrator whose official actions led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Goldberg v. Kelly on due process rights in public assistance.
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A.
Richard Goldman
Richard Goldman was an American philanthropist and environmentalist best known for co-founding the Goldman Environmental Prize and supporting public policy and environmental causes.
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B.
Neil Goldman
Neil Goldman is a recurring nerdy, socially awkward teenage character in the animated TV series "Family Guy," often portrayed as infatuated with Meg Griffin.
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C.
Fred T. Goldberg Jr.
Fred T. Goldberg Jr. is an American attorney and former U.S. government official who served as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in the early 1990s.
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D.
Donald Rubin
Donald Rubin was an American businessman, philanthropist, and art collector best known for co-founding the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, which specializes in Himalayan and Tibetan art.
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E.
Sidney Finkelstein
Sidney Finkelstein was an American Marxist literary and music critic known for his analyses of culture and the arts from a leftist perspective.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Supreme Court case
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person ⓘ |
| causeOf | litigation leading to Goldberg v. Kelly ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| decisionYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| employer |
City of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| fieldOfWork |
public welfare administration
ⓘ
social services administration ⓘ |
| hasRole | defendant in Goldberg v. Kelly ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States Supreme Court
ⓘ
linked to:
Supreme Court of the United States
|
| legalCaseSubject |
due process rights in public assistance
ⓘ
procedural protections before termination of welfare benefits ⓘ |
| legalSubject |
due process
ⓘ
public assistance benefits ⓘ |
| locationOfOrigin | New York City ⓘ |
| namedAsInLegalCase | Goldberg ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
U.S. Supreme Court decision in Goldberg v. Kelly (1970)
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linked to:
Goldberg v. Kelly
|
| notableFor | role in the U.S. Supreme Court case Goldberg v. Kelly ⓘ |
| occupation |
government official
ⓘ
public administrator ⓘ |
| officeAction | termination and reduction of public assistance benefits ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
John Kelly
ⓘ
other New York City welfare recipients ⓘ |
| participantIn | Goldberg v. Kelly ⓘ |
| positionHeld | New York City welfare administrator ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | administration of public assistance programs in New York City ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole |
Jack R. Goldberg as defendant
ⓘ
John Kelly as plaintiff ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivity | 1960s ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Jack R. Goldberg Description of subject: Jack R. Goldberg was the New York City welfare administrator whose official actions led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Goldberg v. Kelly on due process rights in public assistance.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.