Rosa Parks Bus
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The Rosa Parks Bus is the restored Montgomery city bus on which civil rights icon Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and becoming a powerful symbol of the American civil rights movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rosa Parks Bus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2462383 — 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: Rosa Parks Bus Context triple: [The Henry Ford, hasExhibit, Rosa Parks Bus]
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A.
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a pivotal 1955–1956 civil rights protest in Alabama in which African Americans refused to ride city buses to challenge racial segregation, helping launch the modern Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.’s national leadership.
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B.
Rosa Parks Day
Rosa Parks Day is an American holiday that honors civil rights icon Rosa Parks and her pivotal role in sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and advancing the struggle against racial segregation.
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C.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, became a pivotal symbol of the struggle against racial segregation.
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D.
Freedom Rides
The Freedom Rides were a series of nonviolent protests in 1961 in which interracial groups rode interstate buses into the segregated U.S. South to challenge and draw attention to the failure to enforce desegregation laws.
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E.
Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin is an American civil rights pioneer who, as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger months before Rosa Parks and later served as a key plaintiff in the landmark case that ended bus segregation.
- 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: Rosa Parks Bus Target entity description: The Rosa Parks Bus is the restored Montgomery city bus on which civil rights icon Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and becoming a powerful symbol of the American civil rights movement.
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A.
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a pivotal 1955–1956 civil rights protest in Alabama in which African Americans refused to ride city buses to challenge racial segregation, helping launch the modern Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.’s national leadership.
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B.
Rosa Parks Day
Rosa Parks Day is an American holiday that honors civil rights icon Rosa Parks and her pivotal role in sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and advancing the struggle against racial segregation.
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C.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, became a pivotal symbol of the struggle against racial segregation.
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D.
Freedom Rides
The Freedom Rides were a series of nonviolent protests in 1961 in which interracial groups rode interstate buses into the segregated U.S. South to challenge and draw attention to the failure to enforce desegregation laws.
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E.
Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin is an American civil rights pioneer who, as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger months before Rosa Parks and later served as a key plaintiff in the landmark case that ended bus segregation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city bus
ⓘ
civil rights artifact ⓘ historic vehicle ⓘ |
| accessibleFor | public viewing at The Henry Ford ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
Montgomery Bus Boycott ⓘ
linked to:
Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks ⓘ segregation laws in the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currentLocation |
Dearborn, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Dearborn, Michigan, United States
The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation ⓘ
linked to:
The Henry Ford (museum complex)
|
| dateOfEvent | 1955-12-01 ⓘ |
| event |
Montgomery Bus Boycott
ⓘ
linked to:
Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt |
The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
ⓘ
linked to:
The Henry Ford (museum complex)
|
| hasCondition | restored to 1955 appearance ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
frequently referenced in discussions of racial equality
ⓘ
iconic image in civil rights education ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriod |
Jim Crow era in the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Jim Crow laws
|
| hasPassenger | Rosa Parks ⓘ |
| hasRole |
site of Rosa Parks' 1955 bus protest
ⓘ
symbol of the American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
educational exhibit on civil rights history
ⓘ
turning point in the struggle against Jim Crow laws ⓘ |
| hasType | Montgomery city bus ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | important artifact of U.S. civil rights history ⓘ |
| locationOfEvent | Rosa Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat
ⓘ
role in triggering the Montgomery Bus Boycott ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Montgomery City Lines ⓘ |
| operatedIn | Montgomery, Alabama ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
The Henry Ford
ⓘ
linked to:
The Henry Ford (museum complex)
|
| partOf | collection of The Henry Ford ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Brown v. Board of Education
ⓘ
Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ NAACP ⓘ Southern Christian Leadership Conference ⓘ |
| restored | yes ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
books on the Montgomery Bus Boycott
ⓘ
documentaries on the civil rights movement ⓘ museum exhibits about Rosa Parks ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
civil rights activism
ⓘ
nonviolent protest ⓘ resistance to racial segregation ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| usedFor | public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama ⓘ |
| usedIn | segregated public transit system ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Rosa Parks Bus Description of subject: The Rosa Parks Bus is the restored Montgomery city bus on which civil rights icon Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and becoming a powerful symbol of the American civil rights movement.
Referenced by (1)
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subject linked to:
The Henry Ford (museum complex)