Julius A. Wolf
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Julius A. Wolf was a criminal defendant whose case, Wolf v. Colorado, became a landmark 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the application of the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule to the states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Julius A. Wolf canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4119465 — 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: Julius A. Wolf Context triple: [Wolf v. Colorado, party, Julius A. Wolf]
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A.
Walter Naegle
Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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B.
Harold L. Volkmer
Harold L. Volkmer was a longtime Democratic U.S. Representative from Missouri known for his strong advocacy of gun owners’ rights and co-sponsorship of the Firearm Owners Protection Act.
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C.
Herbert J. Krapp
Herbert J. Krapp was a prominent early 20th-century American theater architect known for designing many of Broadway’s most famous playhouses.
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D.
Charles Hartmann
Charles Hartmann is a central fictional character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "The Girl at the Lion d’Or," depicted as a middle-aged, married lawyer and politician who becomes romantically involved with the young waitress Anne Louvet in 1930s France.
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E.
Max J. Kohler
Max J. Kohler was a Jewish-American lawyer and historian known for his work on immigration law and the defense of civil and religious liberties in the United States.
- 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: Julius A. Wolf Target entity description: Julius A. Wolf was a criminal defendant whose case, Wolf v. Colorado, became a landmark 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the application of the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule to the states.
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A.
Walter Naegle
Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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B.
Harold L. Volkmer
Harold L. Volkmer was a longtime Democratic U.S. Representative from Missouri known for his strong advocacy of gun owners’ rights and co-sponsorship of the Firearm Owners Protection Act.
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C.
Herbert J. Krapp
Herbert J. Krapp was a prominent early 20th-century American theater architect known for designing many of Broadway’s most famous playhouses.
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D.
Charles Hartmann
Charles Hartmann is a central fictional character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "The Girl at the Lion d’Or," depicted as a middle-aged, married lawyer and politician who becomes romantically involved with the young waitress Anne Louvet in 1930s France.
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E.
Max J. Kohler
Max J. Kohler was a Jewish-American lawyer and historian known for his work on immigration law and the defense of civil and religious liberties in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminal defendant
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person ⓘ |
| amendmentImplicated |
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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linked to:
Fourteenth Amendment
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| caseCategory |
United States Supreme Court Fourth Amendment case
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United States Supreme Court incorporation case ⓘ |
| caseCitation |
Wolf v. Colorado, 338 U.S. 25 (1949)
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linked to:
Wolf v. Colorado
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| caseDecisionYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| caseHeWasInvolvedInDecidedBy | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| caseHoldingRelatedTo | whether the exclusionary rule is required in state courts via the Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ |
| caseOutcomeImpact | held that the exclusionary rule was not mandatory for the states at that time ⓘ |
| caseSignificance | landmark decision on the application of the federal exclusionary rule to the states ⓘ |
| caseType | criminal case ⓘ |
| constitutionalIssue |
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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exclusionary rule ⓘ |
| countryOfLegalProceedings |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| historicalRole | central figure in a major mid-20th-century U.S. constitutional criminal procedure case ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfProsecution |
State of Colorado
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linked to:
Colorado
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| laterRelatedCase | Mapp v. Ohio ⓘ |
| laterRelatedCaseSignificance |
Mapp v. Ohio later applied the exclusionary rule to the states, limiting the effect of Wolf v. Colorado
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linked to:
Mapp v. Ohio
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| laterRelatedCaseYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| legalRightImplicated | freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures ⓘ |
| legalSystem | United States law ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the criminal defendant in Wolf v. Colorado ⓘ |
| partyToCase | Wolf v. Colorado ⓘ |
| relatedDoctrine | incorporation of the Bill of Rights ⓘ |
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: Julius A. Wolf Description of subject: Julius A. Wolf was a criminal defendant whose case, Wolf v. Colorado, became a landmark 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the application of the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule to the states.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.