Cordell Reagon
E111626
Cordell Reagon was a civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the Freedom Singers and an early organizer in the U.S. civil rights movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cordell Reagon canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T686464 — 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: Cordell Reagon Context triple: [Albany Movement, foundedBy, Cordell Reagon]
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A.
Prentiss M. Brown
Prentiss M. Brown was an American Democratic politician and U.S. Senator from Michigan who played a key role in federal economic regulation during World War II.
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B.
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
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C.
Whitney Young
Whitney Young was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime head of the National Urban League, known for his pragmatic, behind-the-scenes efforts to combat racial inequality and expand economic opportunities for Black Americans.
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D.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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E.
E. D. Nixon
E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
- 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: Cordell Reagon Target entity description: Cordell Reagon was a civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the Freedom Singers and an early organizer in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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A.
Prentiss M. Brown
Prentiss M. Brown was an American Democratic politician and U.S. Senator from Michigan who played a key role in federal economic regulation during World War II.
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B.
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
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C.
Whitney Young
Whitney Young was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime head of the National Urban League, known for his pragmatic, behind-the-scenes efforts to combat racial inequality and expand economic opportunities for Black Americans.
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D.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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E.
E. D. Nixon
E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Freedom Singer
ⓘ
civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activismFocus |
racial equality
ⓘ
voting rights ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
ⓘ
U.S. civil rights movement ⓘ
linked to:
American civil rights movement
|
| cause | civil rights in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Reagon ⓘ |
| genre |
folk music
ⓘ
freedom songs ⓘ |
| givenName | Cordell ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Freedom Singers ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a founding member of the Freedom Singers
ⓘ
early organizing in the U.S. civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableWork | Freedom Singers ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
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singer ⓘ |
| politicalStrategy | nonviolent protest ⓘ |
| usedMedium |
music
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public speaking ⓘ |
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: Cordell Reagon Description of subject: Cordell Reagon was a civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the Freedom Singers and an early organizer in the U.S. civil rights movement.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.