Yolanda King
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Yolanda King was an American activist, actress, and the eldest daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., known for her work promoting nonviolence and social justice.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yolanda King canonical | 18 |
| Yolanda Denise King | 1 |
| Yolanda Renee King | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15986 — 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: Yolanda King Context triple: [Martin Luther King Jr., child, Yolanda King]
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A.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who played a key role in advancing racial and gender equality and preserving the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
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B.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.
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C.
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author best known for her acclaimed works on race and migration in the United States, including "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste."
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D.
Cissy Houston
Cissy Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned both for her own recording and backup vocal career and as the matriarch of the Houston musical family.
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E.
Mary Burwell
Mary Burwell was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister.
- 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: Yolanda King Target entity description: Yolanda King was an American activist, actress, and the eldest daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., known for her work promoting nonviolence and social justice.
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A.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who played a key role in advancing racial and gender equality and preserving the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
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B.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.
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C.
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author best known for her acclaimed works on race and migration in the United States, including "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste."
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D.
Cissy Houston
Cissy Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned both for her own recording and backup vocal career and as the matriarch of the Houston musical family.
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E.
Lilly Ledbetter
Lilly Ledbetter is an American former Goodyear employee and equal pay activist whose pay discrimination case led to the landmark Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
activist
ⓘ
actress ⓘ human ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre
ⓘ
Master of Fine Arts in Theatre ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart condition ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-11-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2007-05-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
ⓘ
Smith College ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | King ⓘ |
| father | Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights activism
ⓘ
nonviolence advocacy ⓘ performing arts ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| fullName |
Yolanda King
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Yolanda Denise King
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Yolanda ⓘ |
| hasNoChildren | true ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Alberta Williams King
ⓘ
Martin Luther King Sr. ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for racial equality
ⓘ
promoting nonviolence ⓘ public speaking on her father’s legacy ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Coretta Scott King ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableRole | portrayal of Rosa Parks in the miniseries "King" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
co-founding the King Center’s cultural and educational initiatives
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founding of Higher Ground Productions ⓘ use of theatre and the arts to promote social change ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
author ⓘ civil rights activist ⓘ motivational speaker ⓘ |
| partOf | King family ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Montgomery, Alabama
ⓘ
surface form:
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
|
| placeOfDeath | Santa Monica, California, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | eldest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|
| sibling |
Bernice King
ⓘ
Dexter Scott King ⓘ Martin Luther King III ⓘ |
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: Yolanda King Description of subject: Yolanda King was an American activist, actress, and the eldest daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., known for her work promoting nonviolence and social justice.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yolanda Denise King
this entity surface form:
Yolanda Renee King
subject surface form:
Dexter Scott King
subject surface form:
King (surname)