Bernice King
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Bernice King is an American minister, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who serves as CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and works to advance her parents’ legacy of nonviolence and social justice.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernice King canonical | 18 |
| Bernice Albertine King | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15989 — 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: Bernice King Context triple: [Martin Luther King Jr., child, Bernice King]
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A.
Yolanda King
Yolanda King was an American activist, actress, and the eldest daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., known for her work promoting nonviolence and social justice.
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B.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who played a key role in advancing racial and gender equality and preserving the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
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C.
Dexter Scott King
Dexter Scott King is an American civil rights activist, attorney, and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. who has worked to preserve and promote his father's legacy.
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D.
Martin Luther King III
Martin Luther King III is an American human rights advocate and community activist, known as the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and for his own work promoting social justice and nonviolence.
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E.
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author best known for her acclaimed works on race and migration in the United States, including "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste."
- 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: Bernice King Target entity description: Bernice King is an American minister, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who serves as CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and works to advance her parents’ legacy of nonviolence and social justice.
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A.
Yolanda King
Yolanda King was an American activist, actress, and the eldest daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., known for her work promoting nonviolence and social justice.
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B.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who played a key role in advancing racial and gender equality and preserving the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
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C.
Dexter Scott King
Dexter Scott King is an American civil rights activist, attorney, and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. who has worked to preserve and promote his father's legacy.
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D.
Martin Luther King III
Martin Luther King III is an American human rights advocate and community activist, known as the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and for his own work promoting social justice and nonviolence.
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E.
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author best known for her acclaimed works on race and migration in the United States, including "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ minister ⓘ |
| birthName |
Bernice King
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Bernice Albertine King
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| boardMemberOf |
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
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surface form:
The King Center
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-03-28 ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
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Juris Doctor ⓘ Master of Divinity ⓘ |
| denomination | Baptist ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Candler School of Theology
ⓘ
Emory University ⓘ Emory University ⓘ
surface form:
Emory University School of Law
Grinnell College ⓘ Spelman College ⓘ |
| employer |
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
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surface form:
The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
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| familyName | King ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil and human rights
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nonviolence education ⓘ social justice advocacy ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernice ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | African American ⓘ |
| knownFor |
continuing the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
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leadership in the American civil rights movement’s ongoing work ⓘ promoting Kingian nonviolence ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableActivity | speaking at commemorations of Martin Luther King Jr. Day ⓘ |
| notableEvent | ordination as a minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advocacy for nonviolence and social justice
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leadership in The King Center’s nonviolence training programs ⓘ public speeches on racial justice and nonviolence ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights advocate
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lawyer ⓘ minister ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| parent |
Coretta Scott King
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Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Atlanta
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surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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| positionHeld | Chief Executive Officer of The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlanta
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surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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| sibling |
Dexter Scott King
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Martin Luther King III ⓘ Yolanda King ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Atlanta
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surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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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: Bernice King Description of subject: Bernice King is an American minister, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who serves as CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and works to advance her parents’ legacy of nonviolence and social justice.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bernice Albertine King
subject surface form:
Dexter Scott King