Paul Robeson Sr.
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Paul Robeson Sr. was an African American minister and community leader, best known as the father of renowned singer, actor, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Robeson Sr. canonical | 1 |
| Reed Robeson | 1 |
| Robeson | 1 |
| William Drew Robeson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1264566 — 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: Paul Robeson Sr. Context triple: [Princeton Cemetery, containsGraveOf, Paul Robeson Sr.]
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A.
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson was a pioneering African American singer, actor, and civil rights activist whose artistic and political influence made him a central figure of 20th-century Black culture.
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B.
Otis Campbell
Otis Campbell is the lovable, frequently inebriated town drunk of Mayberry on the classic American television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
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C.
Harold McLernon
Harold McLernon was a film editor known for his work on early sound-era movies, including the 1928 musical drama "The Singing Fool."
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D.
George W. Lewis
George W. Lewis was an American aerospace engineer and long-serving director of research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), whose leadership significantly advanced early U.S. aeronautical research.
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E.
Lewis Henry Douglass
Lewis Henry Douglass was the eldest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known for his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War and his work as a typesetter and activist in Washington, D.C.
- 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: Paul Robeson Sr. Target entity description: Paul Robeson Sr. was an African American minister and community leader, best known as the father of renowned singer, actor, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.
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A.
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson was a pioneering African American singer, actor, and civil rights activist whose artistic and political influence made him a central figure of 20th-century Black culture.
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B.
Otis Campbell
Otis Campbell is the lovable, frequently inebriated town drunk of Mayberry on the classic American television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
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C.
Harold McLernon
Harold McLernon was a film editor known for his work on early sound-era movies, including the 1928 musical drama "The Singing Fool."
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D.
George W. Lewis
George W. Lewis was an American aerospace engineer and long-serving director of research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), whose leadership significantly advanced early U.S. aeronautical research.
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E.
Lewis Henry Douglass
Lewis Henry Douglass was the eldest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known for his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War and his work as a typesetter and activist in Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American community leader
ⓘ
Christian minister ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | Paul Robeson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
African American clergy ⓘ |
| familyName | Robeson ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasRole |
community leader
ⓘ
religious leader ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Paul Robeson ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Paul Robeson ⓘ |
| occupation |
community leader
ⓘ
minister ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Paul Robeson Sr. Description of subject: Paul Robeson Sr. was an African American minister and community leader, best known as the father of renowned singer, actor, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robeson
this entity surface form:
William Drew Robeson
this entity surface form:
Reed Robeson