Alvin Robertson
E201520
Alvin Robertson is known primarily as the father of Carole Robertson, one of the four African American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alvin Robertson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1720574 — 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: Alvin Robertson Context triple: [Carole Robertson, father, Alvin Robertson]
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A.
Elvin Hayes
Elvin Hayes is a Hall of Fame American basketball player renowned as one of the NBA’s dominant power forwards of the 1970s, particularly for his scoring, rebounding, and key role in leading the Washington Bullets to the 1978 championship.
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B.
Horace Grant
Horace Grant is a retired American professional basketball player best known as a four-time NBA champion and key defensive forward for the Chicago Bulls during their early 1990s dynasty.
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C.
Paul Silas
Paul Silas was an American professional basketball player and three-time NBA champion who later became a head coach in the league.
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D.
Bernard King
Bernard King is a Hall of Fame American basketball forward renowned for his prolific scoring, particularly during the 1980s in the NBA.
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E.
Reggie Theus
Reggie Theus is a former American professional basketball player and coach, best known for his NBA career as a high-scoring guard and later coaching roles at the collegiate and professional levels.
- 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: Alvin Robertson Target entity description: Alvin Robertson is known primarily as the father of Carole Robertson, one of the four African American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.
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A.
Elvin Hayes
Elvin Hayes is a Hall of Fame American basketball player renowned as one of the NBA’s dominant power forwards of the 1970s, particularly for his scoring, rebounding, and key role in leading the Washington Bullets to the 1978 championship.
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B.
Horace Grant
Horace Grant is a retired American professional basketball player best known as a four-time NBA champion and key defensive forward for the Chicago Bulls during their early 1990s dynasty.
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C.
Paul Silas
Paul Silas was an American professional basketball player and three-time NBA champion who later became a head coach in the league.
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D.
Bernard King
Bernard King is a Hall of Fame American basketball forward renowned for his prolific scoring, particularly during the 1980s in the NBA.
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E.
Reggie Theus
Reggie Theus is a former American professional basketball player and coach, best known for his NBA career as a high-scoring guard and later coaching roles at the collegiate and professional levels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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victim of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ |
| child | Carole Robertson ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1963-09-15 ⓘ |
| name | Alvin Robertson ⓘ |
| parent | Alvin Robertson ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
16th Street Baptist Church
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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: Alvin Robertson Description of subject: Alvin Robertson is known primarily as the father of Carole Robertson, one of the four African American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Alvin Robertson