James Albert King
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James Albert King was the paternal grandfather of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and an influential figure in the King family’s religious and social legacy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Albert King canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T603737 — 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 Albert King Context triple: [Martin Luther King Sr., father, James Albert King]
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A.
Leslie Lynch King Jr.
Leslie Lynch King Jr. is the birth name of Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States.
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B.
Alfred Daniel Williams King
Alfred Daniel Williams King was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist, and the younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British Conservative politician, writer, and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who also served as Mayor of London.
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D.
Donald King
Donald King is a flamboyant and controversial American boxing promoter known for organizing some of the sport’s most famous heavyweight championship bouts.
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E.
Thomas James
Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
- 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 Albert King Target entity description: James Albert King was the paternal grandfather of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and an influential figure in the King family’s religious and social legacy.
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A.
Leslie Lynch King Jr.
Leslie Lynch King Jr. is the birth name of Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States.
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B.
Alfred Daniel Williams King
Alfred Daniel Williams King was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist, and the younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British Conservative politician, writer, and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who also served as Mayor of London.
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D.
Donald King
Donald King is a flamboyant and controversial American boxing promoter known for organizing some of the sport’s most famous heavyweight championship bouts.
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E.
Thomas James
Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
grandparent
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| affiliation | Baptist tradition ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | King ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Martin Luther King Sr. ⓘ |
| givenName |
Albert
ⓘ
James ⓘ |
| grandfatherOf | Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Martin Luther King Jr.
ⓘ
Martin Luther King Sr. ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRole | patriarch of the King family ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Martin Luther King Jr.
ⓘ
Martin Luther King Sr. ⓘ |
| influenced |
religious outlook of the King family
ⓘ
social engagement of the King family ⓘ |
| memberOf | King family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the paternal grandfather of Martin Luther King Jr.
ⓘ
influence on the King family’s religious legacy ⓘ influence on the King family’s social legacy ⓘ |
| paternalGrandfatherOf | Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta
Georgia, United States ⓘ
linked to:
Georgia
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Albert King Description of subject: James Albert King was the paternal grandfather of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and an influential figure in the King family’s religious and social legacy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.