Larry Itliong
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Larry Itliong was a Filipino American labor organizer and civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the farm workers’ movement in California, including helping to spark the Delano grape strike and co-founding what became the United Farm Workers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Itliong canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1680709 — 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: Larry Itliong Context triple: [United Farm Workers, foundedBy, Larry Itliong]
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A.
César Chávez
César Chávez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers union and became a key figure in advancing farmworkers’ rights through nonviolent protest.
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B.
Corky Gonzales
Corky Gonzales was a prominent Chicano activist, poet, and political organizer whose work and writings helped shape the ideology and momentum of the Chicano movement in the United States.
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C.
Demetrio P. Rodriguez
Demetrio P. Rodriguez was the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case challenging inequities in public school funding based on local property taxes.
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D.
George Meany
George Meany was a prominent American labor leader who served as the longtime president of the AFL-CIO and became one of the most influential figures in 20th-century U.S. trade unionism.
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E.
Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale is an American political activist best known as the co-founder and early leader of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary organization central to the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
- 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: Larry Itliong Target entity description: Larry Itliong was a Filipino American labor organizer and civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the farm workers’ movement in California, including helping to spark the Delano grape strike and co-founding what became the United Farm Workers.
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A.
César Chávez
César Chávez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers union and became a key figure in advancing farmworkers’ rights through nonviolent protest.
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B.
Corky Gonzales
Corky Gonzales was a prominent Chicano activist, poet, and political organizer whose work and writings helped shape the ideology and momentum of the Chicano movement in the United States.
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C.
Demetrio P. Rodriguez
Demetrio P. Rodriguez was the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case challenging inequities in public school funding based on local property taxes.
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D.
George Meany
George Meany was a prominent American labor leader who served as the longtime president of the AFL-CIO and became one of the most influential figures in 20th-century U.S. trade unionism.
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E.
Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale is an American political activist best known as the co-founder and early leader of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary organization central to the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Filipino American
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civil rights leader ⓘ human ⓘ labor organizer ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
Filipino American workers
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farm workers ⓘ |
| cause |
civil rights
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economic justice ⓘ labor rights ⓘ |
| coFounded |
United Farm Workers (predecessor organization)
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linked to:
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Filipino ⓘ |
| familyName | Itliong ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights activism
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labor organizing ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry ⓘ |
| helpedOrganize |
Delano grape strike
ⓘ
Filipino farm workers in California ⓘ |
| legacy | key Filipino American figure in U.S. labor history ⓘ |
| movement |
civil rights movement
ⓘ
linked to:
American civil rights movement
farm workers’ movement ⓘ |
| name | Larry Itliong ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Delano grape strike
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co-founding the union that became the United Farm Workers ⓘ farm workers’ movement in California ⓘ |
| notableRole | pivotal leader in the early United Farm Workers movement ⓘ |
| occupation |
labor organizer
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union leader ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Delano, California ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | leader of the Delano grape strike ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Cesar Chavez
ⓘ
linked to:
César Chávez
Dolores Huerta ⓘ
linked to:
Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta
|
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: Larry Itliong Description of subject: Larry Itliong was a Filipino American labor organizer and civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the farm workers’ movement in California, including helping to spark the Delano grape strike and co-founding what became the United Farm Workers.
Referenced by (6)
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