Greensboro, North Carolina
E11178
Greensboro, North Carolina is a city historically significant as a major site of the American civil rights movement, particularly known for the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Greensboro, North Carolina canonical | 119 |
| Greensboro | 25 |
| Greensboro, North Carolina, United States | 9 |
| City of Greensboro | 4 |
| downtown Greensboro | 1 |
| present-day Greensboro, North Carolina | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T80384 — 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: Greensboro, North Carolina Context triple: [American civil rights movement, location, Greensboro, North Carolina]
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A.
Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina is a major city in the Research Triangle region known for Duke University, a strong research and tech economy, and a rich civil rights and tobacco-industry history.
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B.
Raleigh–Durham area
The Raleigh–Durham area is a major metropolitan region in North Carolina centered around the cities of Raleigh and Durham and closely associated with the Research Triangle.
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C.
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Virginia, known for its pivotal role in American history, particularly as the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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D.
Greenville, Georgia
Greenville, Georgia is a small city in west-central Georgia that serves as the administrative and civic center of Meriwether County.
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E.
Warrenton
Warrenton is a small historic town in Fauquier County that serves as a commercial and civic hub for the surrounding rural areas of Northern Virginia.
- 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: Greensboro, North Carolina Target entity description: Greensboro, North Carolina is a city historically significant as a major site of the American civil rights movement, particularly known for the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins.
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A.
Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina is a major city in the Research Triangle region known for Duke University, a strong research and tech economy, and a rich civil rights and tobacco-industry history.
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B.
Raleigh–Durham area
The Raleigh–Durham area is a major metropolitan region in North Carolina centered around the cities of Raleigh and Durham and closely associated with the Research Triangle.
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C.
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Virginia, known for its pivotal role in American history, particularly as the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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D.
Greenville, Georgia
Greenville, Georgia is a small city in west-central Georgia that serves as the administrative and civic center of Meriwether County.
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E.
Warrenton
Warrenton is a small historic town in Fauquier County that serves as a commercial and civic hub for the surrounding rural areas of Northern Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Greensboro, North Carolina Description of subject: Greensboro, North Carolina is a city historically significant as a major site of the American civil rights movement, particularly known for the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins.
Referenced by (159)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Greensboro
this entity surface form:
Greensboro
this entity surface form:
Greensboro
this entity surface form:
present-day Greensboro, North Carolina
this entity surface form:
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
this entity surface form:
Greensboro
this entity surface form:
Greensboro
this entity surface form:
Greensboro
subject surface form:
Cecil Brown (novelist)
this entity surface form:
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
this entity surface form:
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
this entity surface form:
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
this entity surface form:
City of Greensboro
this entity surface form:
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
subject surface form:
Ezell Blair Jr.
subject surface form:
Woolworth’s lunch counter (Greensboro)
subject surface form:
Franklin McCain