Tom C. Clark
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
United States Attorney General
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jurist
lawyer
Tom C. Clark was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967 and previously as U.S. Attorney General under President Harry S. Truman.
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| Tom C. Clark canonical | 31 |
| Justice Tom C. Clark | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T204758 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom C. Clark Context triple: [Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, majorityOpinionBy, Tom C. Clark]
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Paul V. McNutt
Paul V. McNutt was an American politician and diplomat who served as governor of Indiana, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and a prominent New Deal-era federal administrator.
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Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes was an American statesman and jurist who served as governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court justice and later chief justice, and U.S. secretary of state, and was the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
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Robert A. Taft
Robert A. Taft was a prominent mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Ohio, known as “Mr. Republican” for his influential conservative leadership and opposition to many New Deal and postwar internationalist policies.
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Earl Warren
Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, known for leading a transformative Supreme Court that issued landmark civil rights and civil liberties decisions in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Claude R. Wickard
Claude R. Wickard was the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, best known for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Wickard v. Filburn that expanded federal regulatory power under the Commerce Clause.
- 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: Tom C. Clark Target entity description: Tom C. Clark was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967 and previously as U.S. Attorney General under President Harry S. Truman.
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A.
Paul V. McNutt
Paul V. McNutt was an American politician and diplomat who served as governor of Indiana, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and a prominent New Deal-era federal administrator.
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B.
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes was an American statesman and jurist who served as governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court justice and later chief justice, and U.S. secretary of state, and was the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
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C.
Robert A. Taft
Robert A. Taft was a prominent mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Ohio, known as “Mr. Republican” for his influential conservative leadership and opposition to many New Deal and postwar internationalist policies.
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D.
Earl Warren
Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, known for leading a transformative Supreme Court that issued landmark civil rights and civil liberties decisions in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Claude R. Wickard
Claude R. Wickard was the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, best known for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Wickard v. Filburn that expanded federal regulatory power under the Commerce Clause.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Tom C. Clark Description of subject: Tom C. Clark was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967 and previously as U.S. Attorney General under President Harry S. Truman.
Referenced by (37)
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Ollie’s Barbecue purchased a substantial portion of its food from out-of-state suppliers
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Thoroughgood Marshall
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Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery, Dallas, Texas