William M’Intosh
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William M’Intosh was a litigant in the landmark 1823 U.S. Supreme Court case Johnson v. M’Intosh, which established key principles of American property and Native land rights law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William M’Intosh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10059170 — 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: William M’Intosh Context triple: [Johnson v. M’Intosh, party, William M’Intosh]
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A.
Alan J. Schoolcraft
Alan J. Schoolcraft is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the animated superhero comedy film "Megamind."
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B.
Dawes Rolls
The Dawes Rolls are historical U.S. government records that list individuals accepted as members of the Five Civilized Tribes, used today as key documentation for determining tribal citizenship and ancestry.
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C.
John R. Swanton
John R. Swanton was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his influential research on Native American cultures, languages, and folklore.
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D.
John McLoughlin
John McLoughlin was a 19th-century fur trader and physician known as the "Father of Oregon" for his pivotal role in the early settlement and development of the Pacific Northwest.
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E.
Principal Chief John Ross
Principal Chief John Ross was the long-serving leader of the Cherokee Nation in the 19th century, known for his determined legal and political resistance to U.S. policies of Indian removal.
- 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: William M’Intosh Target entity description: William M’Intosh was a litigant in the landmark 1823 U.S. Supreme Court case Johnson v. M’Intosh, which established key principles of American property and Native land rights law.
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A.
Alan J. Schoolcraft
Alan J. Schoolcraft is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the animated superhero comedy film "Megamind."
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B.
Dawes Rolls
The Dawes Rolls are historical U.S. government records that list individuals accepted as members of the Five Civilized Tribes, used today as key documentation for determining tribal citizenship and ancestry.
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C.
John R. Swanton
John R. Swanton was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his influential research on Native American cultures, languages, and folklore.
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D.
John McLoughlin
John McLoughlin was a 19th-century fur trader and physician known as the "Father of Oregon" for his pivotal role in the early settlement and development of the Pacific Northwest.
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E.
Principal Chief John Ross
Principal Chief John Ross was the long-serving leader of the Cherokee Nation in the 19th century, known for his determined legal and political resistance to U.S. policies of Indian removal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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litigant ⓘ |
| areaOfSignificance |
American property law
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Native American land rights law ⓘ |
| associatedLegalDoctrine |
aboriginal title
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doctrine of discovery ⓘ federal supremacy over Indian land transactions ⓘ |
| caseCitation | 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.) 543 ⓘ |
| caseDecisionYear | 1823 ⓘ |
| caseHoldingRelatedTo |
land titles derived from Native American tribes
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validity of land purchases from Native Americans by private individuals ⓘ |
| caseImpact |
foundational precedent in U.S. property law
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long-term effects on Native American land rights in the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| jurisdictionOfCase | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| legalSystemContext | U.S. federal law ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a named party in Johnson v. M’Intosh ⓘ |
| partyToCase | Johnson v. M’Intosh ⓘ |
| presidingJusticeInCase | John Marshall ⓘ |
| roleInCase | defendant ⓘ |
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: William M’Intosh Description of subject: William M’Intosh was a litigant in the landmark 1823 U.S. Supreme Court case Johnson v. M’Intosh, which established key principles of American property and Native land rights law.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.