Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Harvard Law School alumnus Harvard University alumnus human judge lawyer

Ketanji Brown Jackson is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Ketanji Brown Jackson canonical	7
Ketanji	2
Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson	2
Ketanji Brown Jackson – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	1
Ketanji Onyika Brown	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T434505 — 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: Ketanji Brown Jackson
Context triple: [United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, circuitJustice, Ketanji Brown Jackson]

A. Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan is a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, appointed in 2010, known for her incisive legal reasoning, influential dissents, and pragmatic liberal jurisprudence.
B. Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett is a conservative Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020 and known for her originalist judicial philosophy.
C. Brett M. Kavanaugh
Brett M. Kavanaugh is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2018 and known for his conservative judicial philosophy.
D. Neil M. Gorsuch
Neil M. Gorsuch is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed in 2017 by President Donald Trump and known for his conservative, originalist judicial philosophy.
E. Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for her liberal jurisprudence, powerful dissents, and status as the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court.
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: Ketanji Brown Jackson
Target entity description: Ketanji Brown Jackson is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.

A. Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan is a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, appointed in 2010, known for her incisive legal reasoning, influential dissents, and pragmatic liberal jurisprudence.
B. Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett is a conservative Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020 and known for her originalist judicial philosophy.
C. Brett M. Kavanaugh
Brett M. Kavanaugh is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2018 and known for his conservative judicial philosophy.
D. Neil M. Gorsuch
Neil M. Gorsuch is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed in 2017 by President Donald Trump and known for his conservative, originalist judicial philosophy.
E. Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for her liberal jurisprudence, powerful dissents, and status as the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ Harvard Law School alumnus ⓘ Harvard University alumnus ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ
appointedBy	Joe Biden ⓘ
barAdmission	District of Columbia Bar ⓘ Massachusetts Bar ⓘ
birthName	Ketanji Onyika Brown ⓘ linked to: Ketanji Brown Jackson
clerkship	law clerk to Justice Stephen G. Breyer ⓘ
clerkshipCourt	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfAppointment	2022-06-30 ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1970-09-14 ⓘ
degree	A.B. in Government ⓘ Juris Doctor ⓘ
educatedAt	Harvard Law School ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ Miami Palmetto Senior High School ⓘ
employer	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
ethnicGroup	African American ⓘ linked to: Black Americans
familyName	Brown Jackson ⓘ
fullName	Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson ⓘ linked to: Ketanji Brown Jackson
gender	female ⓘ
givenName	Ketanji ⓘ linked to: Ketanji Brown Jackson
graduatedWithHonors	cum laude (Harvard Law School) ⓘ magna cum laude (Harvard College) ⓘ
hasWorkedAs	federal public defender ⓘ private practice attorney ⓘ staff member, United States Sentencing Commission ⓘ
memberOf	Harvard Law Review ⓘ
nominatedBy	Joe Biden ⓘ
nominatedToDC CircuitBy	Joe Biden ⓘ
nominatedToDistrictCourtBy	Barack Obama ⓘ
notableFor	first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
numberOfChildren	2 ⓘ
occupation	judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Washington, D.C., United States ⓘ linked to: Washington, D.C.
politicalParty	Democratic Party (United States) – generally aligned ⓘ linked to: Democratic Party
positionHeld	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
precededBy	Stephen G. Breyer ⓘ
previousPosition	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ⓘ Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ⓘ Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission ⓘ
religion	Protestant Christianity ⓘ
residence	Washington, D.C., United States ⓘ linked to: Washington, D.C.
spouse	Patrick G. Jackson ⓘ
swornInOn	2022-06-30 ⓘ

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Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit → circuitJustice → Ketanji Brown Jackson ⓘ

Stephen G. Breyer → replacedBy → Ketanji Brown Jackson ⓘ

Ketanji Brown Jackson → fullName → Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson ⓘ