Selma, Alabama
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Selma, Alabama is a historic city best known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, particularly for the 1965 voting rights marches.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Selma, Alabama canonical | 69 |
| Selma, Alabama, United States | 14 |
| City of Selma | 6 |
| City of Selma, Alabama | 4 |
| Downtown Selma | 1 |
| Selma, Alabama region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T80383 — 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: Selma, Alabama Context triple: [American civil rights movement, location, Selma, Alabama]
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Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama is the state capital known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, including events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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B.
16th Street Baptist Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church is a historic African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, best known as the site of a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four Black girls and became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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C.
Selma to Montgomery marches
The Selma to Montgomery marches were a series of 1965 civil rights protests in Alabama that became pivotal in the struggle for African American voting rights and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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D.
Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign was a pivotal 1963 civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, marked by nonviolent protests against racial segregation that drew national attention and helped spur major civil rights legislation.
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E.
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Birmingham, Alabama, United States is a major industrial and cultural city in the American South, historically known for its steel production and pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement.
- 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: Selma, Alabama Target entity description: Selma, Alabama is a historic city best known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, particularly for the 1965 voting rights marches.
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A.
Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama is the state capital known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, including events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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B.
16th Street Baptist Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church is a historic African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, best known as the site of a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four Black girls and became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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C.
Selma to Montgomery marches
The Selma to Montgomery marches were a series of 1965 civil rights protests in Alabama that became pivotal in the struggle for African American voting rights and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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D.
Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign was a pivotal 1963 civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, marked by nonviolent protests against racial segregation that drew national attention and helped spur major civil rights legislation.
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E.
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Birmingham, Alabama, United States is a major industrial and cultural city in the American South, historically known for its steel production and pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Selma, Alabama Description of subject: Selma, Alabama is a historic city best known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, particularly for the 1965 voting rights marches.
Referenced by (95)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Selma, Alabama, United States
this entity surface form:
Selma, Alabama, United States
this entity surface form:
Selma, Alabama, United States
this entity surface form:
Selma, Alabama, United States
this entity surface form:
Selma, Alabama, United States
this entity surface form:
City of Selma
this entity surface form:
Selma, Alabama region
this entity surface form:
Downtown Selma
this entity surface form:
City of Selma, Alabama
this entity surface form:
City of Selma, Alabama
this entity surface form:
City of Selma, Alabama
subject surface form:
Black Belt (Alabama)
this entity surface form:
City of Selma
subject surface form:
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
this entity surface form:
City of Selma
this entity surface form:
Selma, Alabama, United States
subject surface form:
Dallas County, Alabama
subject surface form:
Dallas County, Alabama