Obadiah Scott
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Obadiah Scott was the brother of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King and a member of the Scott family from rural Alabama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Obadiah Scott canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T351196 — 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: Obadiah Scott Context triple: [Coretta Scott King, sibling, Obadiah Scott]
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A.
Palmer Joss
Palmer Joss is a central character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact," serving as a religious scholar and love interest who embodies the tension between faith and science.
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B.
Elijah
Elijah is a major Old Testament prophet who, according to the Bible, was taken up to heaven and later appeared alongside Moses during Jesus’ Transfiguration.
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C.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
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D.
Bones McKinney
Bones McKinney was an American professional basketball player and later coach, best known for his colorful personality and contributions to early pro basketball and college coaching.
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E.
Jeremiah Sullivan Black
Jeremiah Sullivan Black was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and U.S. Attorney General who served under President James Buchanan.
- 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: Obadiah Scott Target entity description: Obadiah Scott was the brother of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King and a member of the Scott family from rural Alabama.
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A.
Palmer Joss
Palmer Joss is a central character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact," serving as a religious scholar and love interest who embodies the tension between faith and science.
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B.
Elijah
Elijah is a major Old Testament prophet who, according to the Bible, was taken up to heaven and later appeared alongside Moses during Jesus’ Transfiguration.
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C.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
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D.
Bones McKinney
Bones McKinney was an American professional basketball player and later coach, best known for his colorful personality and contributions to early pro basketball and college coaching.
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E.
Jeremiah Sullivan Black
Jeremiah Sullivan Black was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and U.S. Attorney General who served under President James Buchanan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
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| familyName | Scott ⓘ |
| givenName | Obadiah ⓘ |
| memberOf | Scott family ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Coretta Scott King ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | rural Alabama ⓘ |
| relative |
Martin Luther King Jr. (brother-in-law)
ⓘ
linked to:
Martin Luther King Jr.
|
| residence | Alabama ⓘ |
| sibling | Coretta Scott King ⓘ |
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: Obadiah Scott Description of subject: Obadiah Scott was the brother of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King and a member of the Scott family from rural Alabama.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.