James Meredith
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James Meredith is a prominent American civil rights figure best known for integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962 and challenging segregation through his activism.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Meredith canonical | 30 |
| James Meredith (grew up nearby, associated with area) | 1 |
| James Meredith as plaintiff | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2165634 — 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: James Meredith Context triple: [1966 Meredith March Against Fear, hasOrganizer, James Meredith]
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A.
George W. McLaurin
George W. McLaurin was an African American educator whose challenge to segregated graduate education led to a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision weakening the legal basis of “separate but equal” in higher education.
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B.
Heman Marion Sweatt
Heman Marion Sweatt was an African American civil rights figure whose challenge to racial segregation in higher education led to the landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
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C.
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. is an American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur best known by his stage name Nelly, who rose to fame in the early 2000s with hit albums like "Country Grammar" and "Nellyville."
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D.
Charles Sherrod
Charles Sherrod was a prominent civil rights activist and SNCC organizer who played a key leadership role in desegregation efforts in Albany, Georgia.
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E.
Ibram Henry Rogers
Ibram Henry Rogers, better known as Ibram X. Kendi, is an American historian, author, and leading scholar of antiracism and race studies.
- 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: James Meredith Target entity description: James Meredith is a prominent American civil rights figure best known for integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962 and challenging segregation through his activism.
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A.
George W. McLaurin
George W. McLaurin was an African American educator whose challenge to segregated graduate education led to a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision weakening the legal basis of “separate but equal” in higher education.
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B.
Heman Marion Sweatt
Heman Marion Sweatt was an African American civil rights figure whose challenge to racial segregation in higher education led to the landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
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C.
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. is an American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur best known by his stage name Nelly, who rose to fame in the early 2000s with hit albums like "Country Grammar" and "Nellyville."
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D.
Charles Sherrod
Charles Sherrod was a prominent civil rights activist and SNCC organizer who played a key leadership role in desegregation efforts in Albany, Georgia.
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E.
Ibram Henry Rogers
Ibram Henry Rogers, better known as Ibram X. Kendi, is an American historian, author, and leading scholar of antiracism and race studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: James Meredith Description of subject: James Meredith is a prominent American civil rights figure best known for integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962 and challenging segregation through his activism.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Kosciusko, Mississippi
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hasNotablePersonBornHere
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James Meredith (grew up nearby, associated with area)
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linked to: James Meredith
linked to: James Meredith