David Richmond
E156823
David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Richmond canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T664463 — 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: David Richmond Context triple: [Greensboro sit-ins, participant, David Richmond]
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A.
Edward Doty
Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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B.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
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C.
David Marks
David Marks was a British architect best known as the co-designer of the London Eye and other major public structures.
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D.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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E.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
- 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: David Richmond Target entity description: David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
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A.
Edward Doty
Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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B.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
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C.
David Marks
David Marks was a British architect best known as the co-designer of the London Eye and other major public structures.
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D.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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E.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| cause | desegregation of lunch counters in Greensboro ⓘ |
| co-activist |
Ezell Blair Jr.
ⓘ
surface form:
Ezell Blair Jr. (Jibreel Khazan)
Franklin McCain ⓘ Joseph McNeil ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfEvent | 1960 Greensboro sit-ins began on February 1, 1960 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
North Carolina A&T State University
ⓘ
surface form:
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College
|
| education |
North Carolina A&T State University
ⓘ
surface form:
North Carolina A&T College
|
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Richmond ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | student activist ⓘ |
| honoredBy | commemorations of the Greensboro Four ⓘ |
| influenced | subsequent sit-in protests across the United States ⓘ |
| knownFor | participating in the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Greensboro sit-ins
ⓘ
surface form:
Greensboro Four
|
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableFor | Greensboro sit-ins ⓘ |
| opposed | racial segregation in public accommodations ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Greensboro sit-ins
ⓘ
lunch counter sit-ins ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Greensboro, North Carolina ⓘ |
| residence | Greensboro, North Carolina ⓘ |
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: David Richmond Description of subject: David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Woolworth’s lunch counter (Greensboro)