Perry Hamer
E235738
Perry Hamer was the husband of prominent civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and a supportive partner in her work for racial and social justice in Mississippi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Perry Hamer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T915201 — 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: Perry Hamer Context triple: [Fannie Lou Hamer, spouse, Perry Hamer]
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A.
Perry King
Perry King is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "The Lords of Flatbush" and the television series "Riptide."
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Ralph Miller
Ralph Miller was a highly respected American college basketball coach best known for transforming Oregon State University into a national contender during his long tenure.
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D.
Vernard Eller
Vernard Eller was an American theologian, author, and Church of the Brethren minister known for his influential writings on radical discipleship, simplicity, and the church’s relationship to power.
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E.
John Brisker
John Brisker was a high-scoring and notoriously tough American basketball player of the late 1960s and early 1970s, remembered both for his ABA/NBA play and his mysterious disappearance in Uganda.
- 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: Perry Hamer Target entity description: Perry Hamer was the husband of prominent civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and a supportive partner in her work for racial and social justice in Mississippi.
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A.
Perry King
Perry King is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "The Lords of Flatbush" and the television series "Riptide."
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Ralph Miller
Ralph Miller was a highly respected American college basketball coach best known for transforming Oregon State University into a national contender during his long tenure.
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D.
Vernard Eller
Vernard Eller was an American theologian, author, and Church of the Brethren minister known for his influential writings on radical discipleship, simplicity, and the church’s relationship to power.
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E.
John Brisker
John Brisker was a high-scoring and notoriously tough American basketball player of the late 1960s and early 1970s, remembered both for his ABA/NBA play and his mysterious disappearance in Uganda.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the husband of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer ⓘ |
| residence | Mississippi ⓘ |
| spouse | Fannie Lou Hamer ⓘ |
| supported |
Fannie Lou Hamer
ⓘ
civil rights activism ⓘ racial justice efforts in Mississippi ⓘ social justice efforts 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: Perry Hamer Description of subject: Perry Hamer was the husband of prominent civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and a supportive partner in her work for racial and social justice in Mississippi.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.