Bernard Rostker
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Bernard Rostker is an American government official and defense policy expert best known for his role as the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case Rostker v. Goldberg challenging the male-only military draft registration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernard Rostker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11861335 — 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: Bernard Rostker Context triple: [Rostker v. Goldberg, petitioner, Bernard Rostker]
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A.
Neil H. McElroy
Neil H. McElroy was a U.S. businessman and politician who served as Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, playing a key role in shaping early Cold War defense policy.
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B.
George J. Tenet
George J. Tenet is an American intelligence official who served as the head of the CIA during the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the period surrounding the September 11 attacks and the lead-up to the Iraq War.
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C.
Dale F. Halton
Dale F. Halton is a prominent Charlotte business leader and philanthropist, best known as the former president of Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Charlotte and a major benefactor of UNC Charlotte.
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D.
Richard Bissell
Richard Bissell was an American author and playwright best known for his novel "7½ Cents," which he co-adapted into the hit Broadway musical and subsequent film "The Pajama Game."
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E.
Andrew W. Marshall
Andrew W. Marshall was a long-serving and influential U.S. defense strategist renowned for shaping Pentagon long-term military planning and competitive strategy during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
- 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: Bernard Rostker Target entity description: Bernard Rostker is an American government official and defense policy expert best known for his role as the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case Rostker v. Goldberg challenging the male-only military draft registration.
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A.
Neil H. McElroy
Neil H. McElroy was a U.S. businessman and politician who served as Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, playing a key role in shaping early Cold War defense policy.
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B.
George J. Tenet
George J. Tenet is an American intelligence official who served as the head of the CIA during the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the period surrounding the September 11 attacks and the lead-up to the Iraq War.
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C.
Dale F. Halton
Dale F. Halton is a prominent Charlotte business leader and philanthropist, best known as the former president of Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Charlotte and a major benefactor of UNC Charlotte.
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D.
Richard Bissell
Richard Bissell was an American author and playwright best known for his novel "7½ Cents," which he co-adapted into the hit Broadway musical and subsequent film "The Pajama Game."
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E.
Andrew W. Marshall
Andrew W. Marshall was a long-serving and influential U.S. defense strategist renowned for shaping Pentagon long-term military planning and competitive strategy during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American government official
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defense policy expert ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Bill Clinton
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Jimmy Carter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
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Syracuse University ⓘ |
| employer | RAND Corporation ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
defense policy
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military manpower policy ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| genre | public policy writing ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
all-volunteer force
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defense manpower ⓘ military draft ⓘ |
| name | Bernard Rostker ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expertise in military conscription policy
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lead role in litigation challenging male-only draft registration ⓘ |
| notableWork | Rostker v. Goldberg ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs
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Director of Selective Service System ⓘ Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness ⓘ |
| roleInLawsuit | lead plaintiff in Rostker v. Goldberg ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Bernard Rostker Description of subject: Bernard Rostker is an American government official and defense policy expert best known for his role as the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case Rostker v. Goldberg challenging the male-only military draft registration.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.