Kathleen Cleaver
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Kathleen Cleaver is an American lawyer, activist, and former communications secretary of the Black Panther Party who became a prominent figure in the Black Power and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kathleen Cleaver canonical | 4 |
| Kathleen Neal Cleaver | 4 |
| Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T370732 — 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: Kathleen Cleaver Context triple: [Black Power movement, hasKeyFigure, Kathleen Cleaver]
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A.
Angela Davis
Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author known for her work on civil rights, prison abolition, and social justice.
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B.
Jo Ann Robinson
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist and educator who played a pivotal organizing role in initiating and sustaining the Montgomery bus boycott.
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C.
Ella Baker
Ella Baker was a prominent African American civil rights leader and grassroots organizer who championed participatory democracy and helped shape major organizations like the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC.
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D.
Diane Nash
Diane Nash is an influential American civil rights leader known for her pivotal role in the Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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E.
Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver was an influential American writer, activist, and prominent leader in the Black Panther Party who became a key voice of the Black Power movement in the 1960s.
- 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: Kathleen Cleaver Target entity description: Kathleen Cleaver is an American lawyer, activist, and former communications secretary of the Black Panther Party who became a prominent figure in the Black Power and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
Angela Davis
Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author known for her work on civil rights, prison abolition, and social justice.
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B.
Jo Ann Robinson
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist and educator who played a pivotal organizing role in initiating and sustaining the Montgomery bus boycott.
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C.
Ella Baker
Ella Baker was a prominent African American civil rights leader and grassroots organizer who championed participatory democracy and helped shape major organizations like the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC.
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D.
Diane Nash
Diane Nash is an influential American civil rights leader known for her pivotal role in the Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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E.
Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver was an influential American writer, activist, and prominent leader in the Black Panther Party who became a key voice of the Black Power movement in the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Black Power activist
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civil rights activist ⓘ feminist ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
prisoners' rights
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racial equality ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1945-05-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Dallas, Texas
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surface form:
Dallas, Texas, United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degree | Juris Doctor from Yale Law School ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Barnard College
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Oberlin College ⓘ Yale Law School ⓘ |
| employer |
Emory University
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surface form:
Emory University School of Law
Yale University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Cleaver ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
African American studies
ⓘ
civil rights law ⓘ human rights ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Kathleen ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter with Eldridge Cleaver
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son with Eldridge Cleaver ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Black Panther Party ⓘ |
| movement |
Black Power movement
ⓘ
American civil rights movement ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
|
| name | Kathleen Cleaver self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for Black liberation
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leadership in the Black Panther Party ⓘ work on civil rights and social justice ⓘ |
| notableWork | co-editor of "Target Zero: A Life in Writing" (Eldridge Cleaver writings) ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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lawyer ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Black Power movement in the 1960s
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civil rights activism in the United States ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
Black Power movement
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surface form:
Black nationalism
|
| positionHeld |
Kathleen Cleaver
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party
|
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| spouse | Eldridge Cleaver ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
documentaries about the Black Panther Party
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interviews on Black Panther Party history ⓘ |
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: Kathleen Cleaver Description of subject: Kathleen Cleaver is an American lawyer, activist, and former communications secretary of the Black Panther Party who became a prominent figure in the Black Power and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kathleen Neal Cleaver
this entity surface form:
Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party
subject surface form:
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
this entity surface form:
Kathleen Neal Cleaver
subject surface form:
Eldridge Cleaver
this entity surface form:
Kathleen Neal Cleaver
this entity surface form:
Kathleen Neal Cleaver