Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson
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Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson was a prominent civil rights activist and organizer who played a key leadership role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10456189 — 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: Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson Context triple: [Executive Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, notableOfficeholder, Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson]
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Rutha Mae Harris
Rutha Mae Harris is an American civil rights activist and gospel singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and galvanize the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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B.
Helene Robinson
Helene Robinson was the wife of renowned American cinematographer Gregg Toland, noted for his groundbreaking work on films such as "Citizen Kane."
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C.
Althea Young Johnson
Althea Young Johnson was the wife of famed aerospace engineer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, a key figure in his personal life during his pioneering work at Lockheed's Skunk Works.
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D.
Judy Robinson
Judy Robinson is a central character in the science fiction series "Lost in Space," portrayed as the capable and resourceful eldest daughter of the Robinson family.
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E.
Clair Engle
Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- 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: Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson Target entity description: Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson was a prominent civil rights activist and organizer who played a key leadership role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s.
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A.
Rutha Mae Harris
Rutha Mae Harris is an American civil rights activist and gospel singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and galvanize the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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B.
Helene Robinson
Helene Robinson was the wife of renowned American cinematographer Gregg Toland, noted for his groundbreaking work on films such as "Citizen Kane."
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C.
Althea Young Johnson
Althea Young Johnson was the wife of famed aerospace engineer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, a key figure in his personal life during his pioneering work at Lockheed's Skunk Works.
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D.
Judy Robinson
Judy Robinson is a central character in the science fiction series "Lost in Space," portrayed as the capable and resourceful eldest daughter of the Robinson family.
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E.
Clair Engle
Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
SNCC leader
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civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| affiliation |
SNCC
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linked to:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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| areaOfActivism |
African-American civil rights
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student activism ⓘ |
| cause |
desegregation
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racial equality ⓘ voting rights ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
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linked to:
Black Americans
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| familyName | Smith-Robinson ⓘ |
| givenName |
Doris
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Ruby ⓘ |
| hasRole |
executive officer in SNCC
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field organizer ⓘ national office staff member of SNCC ⓘ |
| hasSignificantInfluenceOn |
SNCC organizational strategy
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civil rights organizing methods ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Civil Rights Era in the United States
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linked to:
American civil rights movement
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| ideology | nonviolence ⓘ |
| knownFor |
SNCC field organizing
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grassroots organizing ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ |
| movement |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
civil rights movement ⓘ
linked to:
American civil rights movement
|
| notableActivity | civil rights organizing in the 1960s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
administrative leadership in SNCC
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being one of the few women in top leadership in SNCC ⓘ leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ leadership within SNCC’s national office ⓘ |
| notableRole | organizer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights organizer
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political activist ⓘ |
| partOf | student wing of the civil rights movement ⓘ |
| positionHeld | executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlanta, Georgia
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linked to:
Atlanta
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClassification | African-American woman activist ⓘ |
| workLocation |
American South
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linked to:
Southern United States
Atlanta, Georgia ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson Description of subject: Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson was a prominent civil rights activist and organizer who played a key leadership role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Executive Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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notableOfficeholder
→
Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson
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