Ezell Blair Jr.
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Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan) is a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American college students who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ezell Blair Jr. canonical | 7 |
| Ezell Blair Jr. (Jibreel Khazan) | 3 |
| Ezell A. Blair | 1 |
| Ezell A. Blair Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T664460 — 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: Ezell Blair Jr. Context triple: [Greensboro sit-ins, participant, Ezell Blair Jr.]
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A.
Hosea Williams
Hosea Williams was an American civil rights leader, close associate of Martin Luther King Jr., and prominent organizer of nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
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B.
James Bevel
James Bevel was a prominent American civil rights leader and strategist, closely associated with Martin Luther King Jr., who played key roles in major campaigns such as the Freedom Rides, the Selma voting rights movement, and anti-war activism.
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C.
James Farmer
James Farmer was a prominent American civil rights leader and co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), known for organizing the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation in the South.
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D.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
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E.
Fred Shuttlesworth
Fred Shuttlesworth was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who played a key role in the struggle against segregation, particularly in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 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: Ezell Blair Jr. Target entity description: Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan) is a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American college students who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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A.
Hosea Williams
Hosea Williams was an American civil rights leader, close associate of Martin Luther King Jr., and prominent organizer of nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
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B.
James Bevel
James Bevel was a prominent American civil rights leader and strategist, closely associated with Martin Luther King Jr., who played key roles in major campaigns such as the Freedom Rides, the Selma voting rights movement, and anti-war activism.
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C.
James Farmer
James Farmer was a prominent American civil rights leader and co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), known for organizing the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation in the South.
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D.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
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E.
Fred Shuttlesworth
Fred Shuttlesworth was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who played a key role in the struggle against segregation, particularly in Birmingham, Alabama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
human ⓘ student activist ⓘ |
| affiliation | North Carolina A&T State University ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Jibreel Khazan ⓘ |
| causeAdvocated |
end to segregation in public accommodations
ⓘ
equal rights ⓘ racial desegregation ⓘ |
| coParticipant |
David Richmond
ⓘ
Franklin McCain ⓘ Joseph McNeil ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent |
1960 Greensboro sit-ins
ⓘ
linked to:
Greensboro sit-ins
|
| educatedAt |
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina A&T State University
|
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Blair ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Ezell ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | Ezell Blair Jr. ⓘ |
| hasRole |
organizer of sit-in protest
ⓘ
participant in nonviolent protest ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | Jr. ⓘ |
| influencedBy | American civil rights leaders ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| location |
Greensboro, North Carolina
ⓘ
Woolworth’s lunch counter ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Greensboro Four
ⓘ
linked to:
Greensboro sit-ins
|
| methodOfActivism |
nonviolent direct action
ⓘ
sit-in ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| nameChange | adopted the name Jibreel Khazan ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first Greensboro Woolworth’s sit-in on February 1, 1960 ⓘ |
| notableFor | Greensboro sit-ins ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership in Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
student (at time of sit-ins) ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins
ⓘ
Greensboro sit-ins ⓘ |
| partOf | student sit-in movement of the 1960s ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Greensboro, North Carolina
ⓘ
North Carolina ⓘ |
| religion | Islam (after name change to Jibreel Khazan) ⓘ |
| residence | Greensboro, North Carolina (during college years) ⓘ |
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: Ezell Blair Jr. Description of subject: Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan) is a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American college students who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ezell Blair Jr.
subject linked to:
Ezell Blair Jr.
linked to: Ezell Blair Jr.
subject linked to:
Woolworth’s lunch counter
linked to: Ezell Blair Jr.
linked to: Ezell Blair Jr.
linked to: Ezell Blair Jr.