Raymond Parks
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Raymond Parks was an African American barber and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama, known for his early involvement in the NAACP and support of his wife Rosa Parks’ historic role in the civil rights movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raymond Parks canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T804487 — 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: Raymond Parks Context triple: [Rosa Parks, spouse, Raymond Parks]
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A.
Harvey Shephard
Harvey Shephard is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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B.
Armond Hill
Armond Hill is a former American basketball player and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Princeton University and subsequent role as an NBA guard.
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C.
Lewis Powell
Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
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D.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
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E.
Charles Moore
Charles Moore was an influential American postmodern architect and educator known for his playful, human-centered public spaces and landmark designs such as the Piazza d'Italia and Sea Ranch.
- 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: Raymond Parks Target entity description: Raymond Parks was an African American barber and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama, known for his early involvement in the NAACP and support of his wife Rosa Parks’ historic role in the civil rights movement.
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A.
Harvey Shephard
Harvey Shephard is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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B.
Armond Hill
Armond Hill is a former American basketball player and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Princeton University and subsequent role as an NBA guard.
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C.
Lewis Powell
Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
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D.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
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E.
Charles Moore
Charles Moore was an influential American postmodern architect and educator known for his playful, human-centered public spaces and landmark designs such as the Piazza d'Italia and Sea Ranch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
barber
ⓘ
civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
civil rights for African Americans
ⓘ
desegregation of public transportation ⓘ |
| areaOfActivism |
anti-segregation laws in Alabama
ⓘ
voting rights for African Americans ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Montgomery Improvement Association
ⓘ
NAACP ⓘ Rosa Parks ⓘ |
| basedIn | Montgomery, Alabama ⓘ |
| cause | racial equality in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
African-American community in Montgomery ⓘ |
| familyName | Parks ⓘ |
| givenName | Raymond ⓘ |
| historicalContext | pre–civil rights movement organizing in the 1940s and 1950s ⓘ |
| knownFor |
behind-the-scenes organizing in the civil rights movement
ⓘ
being an early NAACP activist in Montgomery ⓘ being the husband of Rosa Parks ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedDuring |
Jim Crow laws
ⓘ
surface form:
Jim Crow era in the United States
|
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NAACP
ⓘ
surface form:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
|
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| name | Raymond Parks self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early involvement in the NAACP in Montgomery, Alabama
ⓘ
supporting Rosa Parks’ role in the Montgomery bus boycott ⓘ |
| occupation |
barber
ⓘ
civil rights activist ⓘ |
| partnerInActivism | Rosa Parks ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Montgomery, Alabama ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | anti-segregation activism ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| residence |
Alabama
ⓘ
Montgomery, Alabama ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | supporter of the Montgomery bus boycott ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialRole |
community leader
ⓘ
mentor to younger activists ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | Montgomery African-American community ⓘ |
| spouse | Rosa Parks ⓘ |
| supported |
Montgomery bus boycott
ⓘ
Rosa Parks ⓘ |
| typeOfWorkplace | barbershop ⓘ |
| usedWorkplaceAs | informal meeting place for activists ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Raymond Parks Description of subject: Raymond Parks was an African American barber and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama, known for his early involvement in the NAACP and support of his wife Rosa Parks’ historic role in the civil rights movement.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.