Crystal D. Meredith
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Crystal D. Meredith is the parent whose legal challenge to a public school district’s student assignment plan led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education on the use of race in school placements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Crystal D. Meredith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7475684 — 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: Crystal D. Meredith Context triple: [Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, petitioner, Crystal D. Meredith]
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Joy A. Thomas
Joy A. Thomas is an information theorist best known as the co-author of the widely used textbook "Elements of Information Theory" with Thomas M. Cover.
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Kimberly S. Budd
Kimberly S. Budd is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
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Amy E. Duddleston
Amy E. Duddleston is an American film editor known for her work on major studio features and acclaimed television series.
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D.
Elaine R. Jones
Elaine R. Jones is a prominent American civil rights attorney and trailblazing leader known for her long tenure as president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
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E.
Theoni V. Aldredge
Theoni V. Aldredge was an acclaimed Greek-American costume designer known for her lavish, period-accurate work in film, theatre, and television, earning multiple Tony and Academy Awards.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Crystal D. Meredith Target entity description: Crystal D. Meredith is the parent whose legal challenge to a public school district’s student assignment plan led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education on the use of race in school placements.
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A.
Joy A. Thomas
Joy A. Thomas is an information theorist best known as the co-author of the widely used textbook "Elements of Information Theory" with Thomas M. Cover.
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B.
Kimberly S. Budd
Kimberly S. Budd is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
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C.
Amy E. Duddleston
Amy E. Duddleston is an American film editor known for her work on major studio features and acclaimed television series.
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D.
Elaine R. Jones
Elaine R. Jones is a prominent American civil rights attorney and trailblazing leader known for her long tenure as president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
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E.
Theoni V. Aldredge
Theoni V. Aldredge was an acclaimed Greek-American costume designer known for her lavish, period-accurate work in film, theatre, and television, earning multiple Tony and Academy Awards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
litigant
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parent ⓘ person ⓘ |
| arguedThat | use of race in student assignment violated Equal Protection Clause ⓘ |
| assertedConstitutionalClaimUnder |
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
ⓘ
linked to:
Fourteenth Amendment
|
| associatedWithSchoolDistrict | Jefferson County Public Schools ⓘ |
| caseCategory |
Equal Protection Clause jurisprudence
ⓘ
civil rights law ⓘ education law ⓘ |
| caseCitation | Meredith v. Jefferson County Bd. of Educ., 551 U.S. 701 (2007) ⓘ |
| caseDecidedIn | 2007 ⓘ |
| caseGroupedWith | Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 ⓘ |
| caseHeardBy | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| caseImplication |
influenced nationwide school desegregation and diversity policies
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limited use of race as a factor in public school student assignment ⓘ |
| caseOutcomeCharacterization | landmark decision on use of race in K–12 school assignments ⓘ |
| challenged | Jefferson County Public Schools student assignment plan ⓘ |
| challengedPolicyOnBasisOf | use of race in student assignment ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| filedLawsuitAgainst |
Jefferson County Board of Education
ⓘ
linked to:
Jefferson County Public Schools
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| hasChild | Joshua Meredith ⓘ |
| involvedIn | constitutional litigation over voluntary integration plans ⓘ |
| legalActionConcerned |
public school assignment
ⓘ
racial classification in school placements ⓘ school desegregation plan ⓘ |
| legalStandingAs | parent of a denied transferee student ⓘ |
| notableFor | Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education ⓘ |
| parentOfStudentAt | Jefferson County Public Schools ⓘ |
| residesIn | Jefferson County, Kentucky ⓘ |
| roleInCase | plaintiff ⓘ |
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: Crystal D. Meredith Description of subject: Crystal D. Meredith is the parent whose legal challenge to a public school district’s student assignment plan led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education on the use of race in school placements.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.