Peter Hopkins
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Peter Hopkins was a San Francisco tax collector best known as the government official whose enforcement actions led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Yick Wo v. Hopkins, which struck down discriminatory application of a facially neutral law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Hopkins canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4407533 — 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: Peter Hopkins Context triple: [Yick Wo v. Hopkins, defendant, Peter Hopkins]
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A.
Richard Hopkins
Richard Hopkins was a British television producer best known for developing and producing major entertainment formats, including the hit dance competition show Strictly Come Dancing.
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B.
Philip Pugh
Philip Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Pugh.
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C.
John Ashton
John Ashton is an American character actor best known for his tough, often blue-collar roles in crime and action films such as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Midnight Run."
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D.
Ross Harrison
Ross Harrison was a pioneering American biologist and anatomist best known for developing the first successful tissue culture techniques, which laid the groundwork for modern cell biology.
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E.
William Atherton
William Atherton is an American character actor best known for playing arrogant and antagonistic authority figures in films such as Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
- 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: Peter Hopkins Target entity description: Peter Hopkins was a San Francisco tax collector best known as the government official whose enforcement actions led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Yick Wo v. Hopkins, which struck down discriminatory application of a facially neutral law.
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A.
Richard Hopkins
Richard Hopkins was a British television producer best known for developing and producing major entertainment formats, including the hit dance competition show Strictly Come Dancing.
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B.
Philip Pugh
Philip Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Pugh.
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C.
John Ashton
John Ashton is an American character actor best known for his tough, often blue-collar roles in crime and action films such as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Midnight Run."
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D.
Ross Harrison
Ross Harrison was a pioneering American biologist and anatomist best known for developing the first successful tissue culture techniques, which laid the groundwork for modern cell biology.
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E.
William Atherton
William Atherton is an American character actor best known for playing arrogant and antagonistic authority figures in films such as Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Supreme Court case
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person ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| areaOfInfluence | civil rights jurisprudence in the United States ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Fourteenth Amendment equal protection jurisprudence
ⓘ
discriminatory enforcement of licensing laws ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| employer |
City and County of San Francisco
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco County
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| fieldOfWork |
municipal regulation enforcement
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tax administration ⓘ |
| hasLegalRole | defendant in Yick Wo v. Hopkins ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
San Francisco, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| knownFor | enforcement of a facially neutral ordinance in a discriminatory manner as found by the U.S. Supreme Court ⓘ |
| legalCase | Yick Wo v. Hopkins ⓘ |
| legalSubject |
Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
ⓘ
linked to:
Equal Protection Clause
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| locationOfEvent |
San Francisco, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
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| mainSubject | discriminatory enforcement of a facially neutral law ⓘ |
| notableFor |
holding that discriminatory application of a facially neutral law violates equal protection
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role in the U.S. Supreme Court case Yick Wo v. Hopkins ⓘ |
| occupation | tax collector ⓘ |
| opponent | Yick Wo ⓘ |
| partyTo | Yick Wo v. Hopkins ⓘ |
| positionHeld | San Francisco tax collector ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | government official whose enforcement actions were challenged in Yick Wo v. Hopkins ⓘ |
| significantPerson |
Peter Hopkins
ⓘ
Yick Wo ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
San Francisco, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
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: Peter Hopkins Description of subject: Peter Hopkins was a San Francisco tax collector best known as the government official whose enforcement actions led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Yick Wo v. Hopkins, which struck down discriminatory application of a facially neutral law.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Peter Hopkins