Assata Shakur
E50247
former member of the Black Liberation Army
former member of the Black Panther Party
fugitive
human
political activist
writer
Assata Shakur is a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member, convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper, who became an icon of Black radical resistance after escaping prison and receiving political asylum in Cuba.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Assata Shakur canonical | 26 |
| Assata Olugbala Shakur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T370734 — 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: Assata Shakur Context triple: [Black Power movement, hasKeyFigure, Assata Shakur]
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A.
Angela Davis
Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author known for her work on civil rights, prison abolition, and social justice.
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B.
Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver was an influential American writer, activist, and prominent leader in the Black Panther Party who became a key voice of the Black Power movement in the 1960s.
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C.
Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton was an African American political activist and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, known for his leadership in the Black Power movement and advocacy for Black self-defense and community programs.
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D.
Kathleen Cleaver
Kathleen Cleaver is an American lawyer, activist, and former communications secretary of the Black Panther Party who became a prominent figure in the Black Power and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
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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: Assata Shakur Target entity description: Assata Shakur is a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member, convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper, who became an icon of Black radical resistance after escaping prison and receiving political asylum in Cuba.
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A.
Angela Davis
Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author known for her work on civil rights, prison abolition, and social justice.
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B.
Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver was an influential American writer, activist, and prominent leader in the Black Panther Party who became a key voice of the Black Power movement in the 1960s.
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C.
Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton was an African American political activist and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, known for his leadership in the Black Power movement and advocacy for Black self-defense and community programs.
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D.
Kathleen Cleaver
Kathleen Cleaver is an American lawyer, activist, and former communications secretary of the Black Panther Party who became a prominent figure in the Black Power and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
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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 (50)
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: Assata Shakur Description of subject: Assata Shakur is a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member, convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper, who became an icon of Black radical resistance after escaping prison and receiving political asylum in Cuba.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.