David Hilliard
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David Hilliard is an American activist and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, known for his prominent role in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Hilliard canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2165438 — 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: David Hilliard Context triple: [Black Panther Party, hasMember, David Hilliard]
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A.
Mark Ellam
Mark Ellam is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "The Take."
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B.
Eric Hilliard Nelson
Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson was an American singer, musician, and actor who became a teen idol in the 1950s and 1960s, known for his rock and roll hits and his role on the television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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C.
Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge is an American composer and orchestrator best known for his work on film and television scores, including numerous collaborations with John Denver.
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D.
Ed Scott
Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
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E.
John Alderman
John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
- 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: David Hilliard Target entity description: David Hilliard is an American activist and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, known for his prominent role in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
Mark Ellam
Mark Ellam is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "The Take."
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B.
Eric Hilliard Nelson
Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson was an American singer, musician, and actor who became a teen idol in the 1950s and 1960s, known for his rock and roll hits and his role on the television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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C.
Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge is an American composer and orchestrator best known for his work on film and television scores, including numerous collaborations with John Denver.
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D.
Ed Scott
Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
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E.
John Alderman
John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Black Power activist
ⓘ
book ⓘ civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ political activist ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bobby Seale
ⓘ
Eldridge Cleaver ⓘ Huey P. Newton ⓘ |
| author | David Hilliard self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| cause |
Black liberation in the United States
ⓘ
opposition to racial discrimination ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Hilliard ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
community organizing
ⓘ
racial equality ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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political writing ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasRole |
organizer of community programs
ⓘ
spokesperson for the Black Panther Party ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Black Power ideology
ⓘ
anti-imperialist movements ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for Black liberation
ⓘ
leadership role in the Black Panther Party ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Black Panther Party ⓘ |
| movement |
Black Power movement
ⓘ
American civil rights movement ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
|
| name | David Hilliard self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in the Black Power movement
ⓘ
role in the Black Panther Party ⓘ |
| notableWork | This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
ⓘ
author ⓘ |
| placeOfActivism |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| politicalAlignment |
Black nationalism
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revolutionary socialism ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief of staff of the Black Panther Party ⓘ |
| subjectOf | historical studies of the Black Panther Party ⓘ |
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: David Hilliard Description of subject: David Hilliard is an American activist and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, known for his prominent role in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party