Thomas Hopkins
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Thomas Hopkins is known primarily as the husband of Ann Hopkins, the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court gender discrimination case Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Hopkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11161929 — 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: Thomas Hopkins Context triple: [Ann Hopkins, spouse, Thomas Hopkins]
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A.
Charles Hopkinson
Charles Hopkinson was an American portrait and landscape painter known for his depictions of prominent early 20th-century figures and his involvement in the Boston art scene.
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B.
John Hartwell
John Hartwell is a member of the Hartwell family, a lineage noted for its historical and genealogical significance.
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C.
John Hartwell
John Hartwell is a collegiate athletics administrator best known for serving as an athletic director at multiple NCAA institutions, including the Warhawks program.
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D.
Thomas Holbrook
Thomas Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with several public figures, including politicians and academics, making precise identification dependent on additional context.
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E.
Thomas Bartlett
Thomas Bartlett is an American pianist, producer, and composer known for his work across indie, folk, and experimental music, collaborating with artists such as Sufjan Stevens, The National, and St. Vincent.
- 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: Thomas Hopkins Target entity description: Thomas Hopkins is known primarily as the husband of Ann Hopkins, the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court gender discrimination case Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins.
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A.
Charles Hopkinson
Charles Hopkinson was an American portrait and landscape painter known for his depictions of prominent early 20th-century figures and his involvement in the Boston art scene.
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B.
John Hartwell
John Hartwell is a member of the Hartwell family, a lineage noted for its historical and genealogical significance.
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C.
John Hartwell
John Hartwell is a collegiate athletics administrator best known for serving as an athletic director at multiple NCAA institutions, including the Warhawks program.
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D.
Thomas Holbrook
Thomas Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with several public figures, including politicians and academics, making precise identification dependent on additional context.
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E.
Thomas Bartlett
Thomas Bartlett is an American pianist, producer, and composer known for his work across indie, folk, and experimental music, collaborating with artists such as Sufjan Stevens, The National, and St. Vincent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Supreme Court case
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableFor |
being the husband of Ann Hopkins
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connection to the U.S. Supreme Court case Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins ⓘ |
| plaintiffIn | Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins ⓘ |
| spouse | Ann Hopkins ⓘ |
| subject | gender discrimination in employment ⓘ |
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: Thomas Hopkins Description of subject: Thomas Hopkins is known primarily as the husband of Ann Hopkins, the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court gender discrimination case Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.