Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, became a pivotal symbol of the struggle against racial segregation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rosa Parks canonical | 63 |
| Rosa Louise McCauley Parks | 2 |
| Rosa Parks (born in Tuskegee) | 1 |
| Rosa Parks as a civil rights icon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T80360 — 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: Rosa Parks Context triple: [American civil rights movement, keyFigure, Rosa Parks]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.
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D.
Martin Luther King Sr.
Martin Luther King Sr. was an influential African American Baptist minister and civil rights leader in Atlanta, and the father of Martin Luther King Jr.
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E.
Alberta Williams King
Alberta Williams King was an American church organist and choir director best known as the mother of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was herself tragically assassinated in 1974.
- 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: Rosa Parks Target entity description: Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, became a pivotal symbol of the struggle against racial segregation.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.
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D.
Martin Luther King Sr.
Martin Luther King Sr. was an influential African American Baptist minister and civil rights leader in Atlanta, and the father of Martin Luther King Jr.
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E.
Alberta Williams King
Alberta Williams King was an American church organist and choir director best known as the mother of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was herself tragically assassinated in 1974.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American
ⓘ
civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Congressional Gold Medal
ⓘ
Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ Spingarn Medal ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | Rosa Parks Day ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
United States Capitol
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Capitol (statue in National Statuary Hall)
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| date | 1955-12-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-02-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2005-10-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Alabama State University
ⓘ
surface form:
Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes (did not complete)
Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African Americans
|
| event | arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up bus seat ⓘ |
| familyName |
McCauley
ⓘ
Parks ⓘ |
| fullName |
Rosa Parks
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Rosa ⓘ |
| hasWork |
Quiet Strength
ⓘ
Rosa Parks: My Story ⓘ |
| heritage |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| honor | called “the mother of the civil rights movement” ⓘ |
| influenced |
American civil rights legislation
ⓘ
Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| inspired | boycotts and protests against segregation across the United States ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Montgomery bus boycott
ⓘ
refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalCase | Browder v. Gayle ⓘ |
| memberOf | NAACP ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableEventLocation |
Montgomery, Alabama
ⓘ
surface form:
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
|
| notableRole | symbol of resistance to racial segregation ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
seamstress ⓘ |
| participantIn | Montgomery bus boycott ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tuskegee, Alabama, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Detroit
ⓘ
surface form:
Detroit, Michigan, United States
|
| positionHeld | secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP ⓘ |
| religion |
Methodist churches
ⓘ
surface form:
Methodism
|
| residence |
Detroit
ⓘ
surface form:
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Montgomery, Alabama ⓘ
surface form:
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
|
| spouse | Raymond Parks ⓘ |
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: Rosa Parks Description of subject: Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, became a pivotal symbol of the struggle against racial segregation.
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
subject surface form:
Tuskegee, Alabama
this entity surface form:
Rosa Parks (born in Tuskegee)
this entity surface form:
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
subject surface form:
Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit)
this entity surface form:
Rosa Parks as a civil rights icon