Kelly Miller Smith
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Kelly Miller Smith was an influential African American Baptist minister and civil rights leader in Nashville who played a key role in organizing nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kelly Miller Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3890945 — 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: Kelly Miller Smith Context triple: [Nashville sit-ins, organizedBy, Kelly Miller Smith]
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A.
Mary Louise Smith
Mary Louise Smith was a young African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, helped lead to the landmark desegregation case Browder v. Gayle.
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B.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
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C.
Molly Smith
Molly Smith is a daughter of FedEx founder and CEO Frederick W. Smith.
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D.
Molly Smith
Molly Smith is an American film producer known for her work on acclaimed movies such as the crime thriller "Sicario."
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E.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Reaser is an American actress best known for her roles in the Twilight film series and the television drama Grey's Anatomy.
- 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: Kelly Miller Smith Target entity description: Kelly Miller Smith was an influential African American Baptist minister and civil rights leader in Nashville who played a key role in organizing nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
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A.
Mary Louise Smith
Mary Louise Smith was a young African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, helped lead to the landmark desegregation case Browder v. Gayle.
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B.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
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C.
Molly Smith
Molly Smith is a daughter of FedEx founder and CEO Frederick W. Smith.
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D.
Molly Smith
Molly Smith is an American film producer known for her work on acclaimed movies such as the crime thriller "Sicario."
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E.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Reaser is an American actress best known for her roles in the Twilight film series and the television drama Grey's Anatomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Baptist minister
ⓘ
civil rights leader ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Distinguished Alumnus Award from Morehouse College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-10-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1984-06-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Alabama State Teachers College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Howard University School of Religion NERFINISHED ⓘ Morehouse College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Vanderbilt University Divinity School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Christian ministry
ⓘ
civil rights organizing ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| givenName | Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Kelly Miller Smith Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| influenced |
Diane Nash
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Lawson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of nonviolent direct action
ⓘ
leadership in Nashville sit-in movement ⓘ mentoring student activists in Nashville ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Nashville Christian Leadership Council
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Christian Leadership Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Civil Rights Movement
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
nonviolent resistance ⓘ |
| notableWork |
chaplaincy and teaching at Vanderbilt University Divinity School
ⓘ
organizing nonviolent protests in Nashville during the Civil Rights Movement ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
clergyman ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Nashville sit-ins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
desegregation campaigns in Nashville ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Montgomery, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nashville, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfWorship | First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill (Nashville) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
pastor of First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill (Nashville)
ⓘ
president of the Nashville Christian Leadership Council ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence | Nashville, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Kelly Miller Smith Description of subject: Kelly Miller Smith was an influential African American Baptist minister and civil rights leader in Nashville who played a key role in organizing nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.