Clarence Edward Smith
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Clarence Edward Smith, better known as Clarence 13X or Allah, was the founder of the Five-Percent Nation and a prominent figure in mid-20th-century African American religious and cultural movements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clarence Edward Smith canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3129737 — 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: Clarence Edward Smith Context triple: [Five-Percent Nation, foundedBy, Clarence Edward Smith]
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A.
Clarence Johnson
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was a pioneering American aeronautical engineer best known for leading Lockheed's Skunk Works and creating advanced aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird and F-104 Starfighter.
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B.
Clarence Rowland
Clarence Rowland was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to the 1917 World Series championship.
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C.
Osborne Earl Smith
Osborne Earl Smith is a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball shortstop, widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in the sport’s history, best known for his career with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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D.
Charles H. Smith
Charles H. Smith was an engineer best known for his role in designing and developing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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E.
Harwood K. Smith
Harwood K. Smith was an American architect and businessman best known as the founder of the architecture and engineering firm HKS, Inc.
- 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: Clarence Edward Smith Target entity description: Clarence Edward Smith, better known as Clarence 13X or Allah, was the founder of the Five-Percent Nation and a prominent figure in mid-20th-century African American religious and cultural movements.
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A.
Clarence Johnson
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was a pioneering American aeronautical engineer best known for leading Lockheed's Skunk Works and creating advanced aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird and F-104 Starfighter.
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B.
Clarence Rowland
Clarence Rowland was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to the 1917 World Series championship.
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C.
Osborne Earl Smith
Osborne Earl Smith is a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball shortstop, widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in the sport’s history, best known for his career with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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D.
Charles H. Smith
Charles H. Smith was an engineer best known for his role in designing and developing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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E.
Harwood K. Smith
Harwood K. Smith was an American architect and businessman best known as the founder of the architecture and engineering firm HKS, Inc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African-American religious leader
ⓘ
founder ⓘ human ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Harlem, New York City
ⓘ
linked to:
Harlem
New York City ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Allah
ⓘ
linked to:
Allah the Father
Clarence 13X ⓘ |
| birthName | Clarence Edward Smith ⓘ |
| burialPlace | New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| conflict | Korean War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-02-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1969-06-13 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| fieldOfWork |
Black cultural nationalism
ⓘ
community organizing ⓘ religious teaching ⓘ |
| founded |
Five-Percent Nation
ⓘ
Nation of Gods and Earths ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Allah the Father
ⓘ
Father Allah ⓘ |
| influenced |
African-American urban youth culture
ⓘ
hip hop culture ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| movement |
African-American civil rights movement
ⓘ
linked to:
American civil rights movement
Black nationalist movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding the Five-Percent Nation in the 1960s
ⓘ
teaching street-based Islamic-influenced doctrine to Black youth ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Black man is God
ⓘ
Five Percenters doctrine ⓘ
linked to:
Five Percenters
Supreme Alphabet ⓘ Supreme Mathematics ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Danville, Virginia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Danville, Virginia
|
| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| positionHeld | member of Nation of Islam Temple No. 7 ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam (heterodox interpretation)
ⓘ
linked to:
Quranism
|
| religiousMovement |
Five-Percent Nation
ⓘ
Nation of Gods and Earths ⓘ |
| residence |
Harlem, New York City
ⓘ
linked to:
Harlem
New York City, New York, United States ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| spouse | Tynetta Smith ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| wasMemberOf | Nation of Islam ⓘ |
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: Clarence Edward Smith Description of subject: Clarence Edward Smith, better known as Clarence 13X or Allah, was the founder of the Five-Percent Nation and a prominent figure in mid-20th-century African American religious and cultural movements.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths)
subject linked to:
Five Percenters