Dexter Scott King
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Dexter Scott King is an American civil rights activist, attorney, and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. who has worked to preserve and promote his father's legacy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dexter Scott King canonical | 21 |
| Dexter King | 1 |
| Michael King Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15988 — 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: Dexter Scott King Context triple: [Martin Luther King Jr., child, Dexter Scott King]
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A.
Martin Luther King III
Martin Luther King III is an American human rights advocate and community activist, known as the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and for his own work promoting social justice and nonviolence.
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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.
Yolanda King
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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D.
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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E.
Oliver Brown
Oliver Brown was the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that ended legal racial segregation in public schools.
- 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: Dexter Scott King Target entity description: Dexter Scott King is an American civil rights activist, attorney, and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. who has worked to preserve and promote his father's legacy.
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A.
Martin Luther King III
Martin Luther King III is an American human rights advocate and community activist, known as the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and for his own work promoting social justice and nonviolence.
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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.
Yolanda King
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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D.
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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E.
Oliver Brown
Oliver Brown was the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that ended legal racial segregation in public schools.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
attorney
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author ⓘ civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|
| cause |
civil rights
ⓘ
nonviolence ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-01-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Morehouse College ⓘ |
| employer |
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
ⓘ
surface form:
The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
|
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | King ⓘ |
| father | Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights advocacy
ⓘ
law ⓘ nonprofit leadership ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Dexter ⓘ |
| hasResidence |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|
| hasSignature | signature of Dexter Scott King ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Coretta Scott King ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| name | Dexter Scott King self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
assumed leadership roles at the King Center after Coretta Scott King’s declining health
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involved in management of intellectual property related to Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| notableFor |
preserving and promoting the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
ⓘ
public speaking on his father’s philosophy of nonviolence ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Martin Luther King Sr. ⓘ |
| notableWork | Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
ⓘ
author ⓘ civil rights activist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the King Center
ⓘ
President of the King Center ⓘ |
| relative | Alberta Williams King ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| sibling |
Bernice King
ⓘ
Martin Luther King III ⓘ Yolanda King ⓘ |
| spouse | Leah Weber ⓘ |
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: Dexter Scott King Description of subject: Dexter Scott King is an American civil rights activist, attorney, and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. who has worked to preserve and promote his father's legacy.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Martin Luther King Jr.
this entity surface form:
Michael King Jr.
this entity surface form:
Dexter King
subject surface form:
King (surname)