Isaac Newton Farris Sr.
E327066
Isaac Newton Farris Sr. was the husband of civil rights activist and educator Christine King Farris and a member of the extended family of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isaac Newton Farris Sr. canonical | 3 |
| Isaac Newton Farris Jr. | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3109207 — 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: Isaac Newton Farris Sr. Context triple: [Christine King Farris, spouse, Isaac Newton Farris Sr.]
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A.
Edward Giles Irvin
Edward Giles Irvin was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the original founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
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B.
Isaac Easty
Isaac Easty was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Mary Easty, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Charles McGhee Tyson
Charles McGhee Tyson was an American World War I naval aviator from Knoxville, Tennessee, honored posthumously as the namesake of McGhee Tyson Airport.
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D.
Isaac Johnson
Isaac Johnson was an early 17th-century English Puritan colonist and financier who played a key role in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England.
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E.
Isaiah Stillman
Isaiah Stillman was a militia officer best known for leading U.S. forces in the 1832 Battle of Stillman’s Run during the Black Hawk 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: Isaac Newton Farris Sr. Target entity description: Isaac Newton Farris Sr. was the husband of civil rights activist and educator Christine King Farris and a member of the extended family of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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A.
Edward Giles Irvin
Edward Giles Irvin was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the original founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
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B.
Isaac Easty
Isaac Easty was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Mary Easty, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Charles McGhee Tyson
Charles McGhee Tyson was an American World War I naval aviator from Knoxville, Tennessee, honored posthumously as the namesake of McGhee Tyson Airport.
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D.
Isaac Johnson
Isaac Johnson was an early 17th-century English Puritan colonist and financier who played a key role in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England.
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E.
Isaiah Stillman
Isaiah Stillman was a militia officer best known for leading U.S. forces in the 1832 Battle of Stillman’s Run during the Black Hawk War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Isaac Newton Farris Sr.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Isaac Newton Farris Jr.
|
| memberOf | King family ⓘ |
| name | Isaac Newton Farris Sr. self-link ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Alberta Williams King
ⓘ
Bernice King ⓘ Dexter Scott King ⓘ Martin Luther King III ⓘ Martin Luther King Sr. ⓘ Yolanda King ⓘ |
| relativeOf | Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| spouse | Christine King Farris ⓘ |
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: Isaac Newton Farris Sr. Description of subject: Isaac Newton Farris Sr. was the husband of civil rights activist and educator Christine King Farris and a member of the extended family of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Isaac Newton Farris Jr.
this entity surface form:
Isaac Newton Farris Jr.