David H. McDonald
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David H. McDonald is the petitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court case McDonald v. Smith, which addressed the limits of First Amendment petition rights in the context of defamation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David H. McDonald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7476315 — 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: David H. McDonald Context triple: [McDonald v. Smith, petitioner, David H. McDonald]
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A.
James A. Abrahamson
James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
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B.
Donald C. MacPherson
Donald C. MacPherson was the injured consumer whose landmark lawsuit against Buick Motor Company helped establish modern product liability law in the United States.
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C.
Donald R. McLennan
Donald R. McLennan was an American insurance executive and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the global professional services firm Marsh & McLennan.
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D.
Jack L. Murray
Jack L. Murray is a film producer best known for his work on the 2009 horror remake "My Bloody Valentine 3D."
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E.
John M. Dawson
John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
- 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: David H. McDonald Target entity description: David H. McDonald is the petitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court case McDonald v. Smith, which addressed the limits of First Amendment petition rights in the context of defamation.
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A.
James A. Abrahamson
James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
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B.
Donald C. MacPherson
Donald C. MacPherson was the injured consumer whose landmark lawsuit against Buick Motor Company helped establish modern product liability law in the United States.
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C.
Donald R. McLennan
Donald R. McLennan was an American insurance executive and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the global professional services firm Marsh & McLennan.
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D.
Jack L. Murray
Jack L. Murray is a film producer best known for his work on the 2009 horror remake "My Bloody Valentine 3D."
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E.
John M. Dawson
John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| allegedConduct | sent letters to government officials critical of another individual ⓘ |
| associatedWithAmendment | First Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegalDoctrine | limits on absolute immunity under the Petition Clause ⓘ |
| caseCitation |
McDonald v. Smith, 472 U.S. 479 (1985)
ⓘ
linked to:
McDonald v. Smith
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| caseOutcomeForPetitioner | petition denied by the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| constitutionalIssueInCase | First Amendment right to petition the government ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| involvedIn | litigation concerning defamation and petitioning government officials ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfCase | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| legalIssueInCase | defamation and limits of petition clause immunity ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the named petitioner in McDonald v. Smith ⓘ |
| partyToCase | McDonald v. Smith ⓘ |
| roleIn | petitioner in McDonald v. Smith ⓘ |
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: David H. McDonald Description of subject: David H. McDonald is the petitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court case McDonald v. Smith, which addressed the limits of First Amendment petition rights in the context of defamation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.