James Hood
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James Hood was one of the first Black students to enroll at the University of Alabama, whose attempted admission in 1963 prompted Governor George Wallace’s infamous “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” segregationist protest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Hood canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2751114 — 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: James Hood Context triple: [1963 "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident, involvedPerson, James Hood]
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A.
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
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B.
John Church
John Church is a notable individual who bears the English surname "Church," though specific widely recognized details about his life or achievements are not clearly established.
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C.
William Sims
William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
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D.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
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E.
Benjamin C. Howard
Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
- 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: James Hood Target entity description: James Hood was one of the first Black students to enroll at the University of Alabama, whose attempted admission in 1963 prompted Governor George Wallace’s infamous “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” segregationist protest.
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A.
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
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B.
John Church
John Church is a notable individual who bears the English surname "Church," though specific widely recognized details about his life or achievements are not clearly established.
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C.
William Sims
William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
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D.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
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E.
Benjamin C. Howard
Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights figure
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| admissionAttemptDate | 1963 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
University of Alabama desegregation
ⓘ
civil rights movement in the United States ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | attempt to integrate a previously segregated public university ⓘ |
| contributedTo | advancement of racial integration in public universities in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Alabama ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| eventInvolvedIn | Stand in the Schoolhouse Door ⓘ |
| eventParticipatedIn | desegregation of the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| faced |
segregationist resistance
ⓘ
state-level opposition to school integration ⓘ |
| familyName | Hood ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | helped end formal racial segregation at the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| hasRole | student ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
Civil Rights Era
|
| inspired | later efforts to integrate higher education in the American South ⓘ |
| mentionedAlongside | Vivian Malone Jones ⓘ |
| name | James Hood self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first Black students to enroll at the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| opposedBy | George Wallace ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Tuscaloosa, Alabama ⓘ |
| stateOfActivity | Alabama ⓘ |
| subjectOf | news coverage of the 1963 University of Alabama desegregation crisis ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
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: James Hood Description of subject: James Hood was one of the first Black students to enroll at the University of Alabama, whose attempted admission in 1963 prompted Governor George Wallace’s infamous “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” segregationist protest.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.