Fannie Lou Hamer
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Fannie Lou Hamer was a prominent American civil rights leader and voting rights activist known for her powerful grassroots organizing in Mississippi and her role in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fannie Lou Hamer canonical | 23 |
| Fannie Lou Townsend | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T80367 — 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: Fannie Lou Hamer Context triple: [American civil rights movement, keyFigure, Fannie Lou Hamer]
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Ella Baker
Ella Baker was a prominent African American civil rights leader and grassroots organizer who championed participatory democracy and helped shape major organizations like the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC.
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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.
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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D.
Rosa Parks
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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E.
Lilly Ledbetter
Lilly Ledbetter is an American former Goodyear employee and equal pay activist whose pay discrimination case led to the landmark Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.
- 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: Fannie Lou Hamer Target entity description: Fannie Lou Hamer was a prominent American civil rights leader and voting rights activist known for her powerful grassroots organizing in Mississippi and her role in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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A.
Ella Baker
Ella Baker was a prominent African American civil rights leader and grassroots organizer who championed participatory democracy and helped shape major organizations like the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC.
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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.
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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D.
Rosa Parks
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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E.
Lilly Ledbetter
Lilly Ledbetter is an American former Goodyear employee and equal pay activist whose pay discrimination case led to the landmark Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American political activist
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civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ voting rights activist ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
Black political representation
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economic justice ⓘ women’s rights ⓘ |
| arrestedFor | attempting to register to vote in Mississippi ⓘ |
| birthName |
Fannie Lou Hamer
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Fannie Lou Townsend
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| causeOfDeath | breast cancer ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-10-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1977-03-14 ⓘ |
| education | limited formal schooling due to sharecropping labor ⓘ |
| employer | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Hamer ⓘ |
| founded |
Freedom Farm Cooperative
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Pig Bank project in Mississippi ⓘ |
| fullName | Fannie Lou Hamer self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Fannie ⓘ |
| hasMotto | "I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired" ⓘ |
| honoredBy | Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
phrase "I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired"
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testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1944 ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ |
| movement |
Black freedom struggle in the United States
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American civil rights movement ⓘ
surface form:
Civil rights movement
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| notableFor |
civil rights movement in the United States
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grassroots organizing in Mississippi ⓘ voting rights activism ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 (adopted) ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights leader
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community organizer ⓘ sharecropper ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 1964 Freedom Summer campaign ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Montgomery County, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Mound Bayou, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence | Ruleville, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Perry Hamer ⓘ |
| subjectOf | biography "This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer" ⓘ |
| wasBeaten | Winona, Mississippi jail in 1963 ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Freedom Summer
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surface form:
Freedom Summer 1964
challenging segregationist Mississippi delegation at 1964 DNC ⓘ voter registration drives in Mississippi ⓘ |
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: Fannie Lou Hamer Description of subject: Fannie Lou Hamer was a prominent American civil rights leader and voting rights activist known for her powerful grassroots organizing in Mississippi and her role in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fannie Lou Townsend
subject surface form:
Ruleville, Mississippi
Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy
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honorsLegacyOf
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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subject surface form:
Montgomery County, Mississippi
subject surface form:
Montgomery County, Mississippi
subject surface form:
Victoria Gray Adams