Addie Mae Collins
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Addie Mae Collins was a 14-year-old African American girl who became one of the four young martyrs of the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal tragedy of the civil rights movement.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Addie Mae Collins canonical | 8 |
| Denise McNair | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T123488 — 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: Addie Mae Collins Context triple: [16th Street Baptist Church, victim, Addie Mae Collins]
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A.
Crystal Langhorne
Crystal Langhorne is an American former professional basketball player and WNBA All-Star known for her efficient post play and key contributions to multiple championship-contending teams.
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B.
Dee Dee Warwick
Dee Dee Warwick was an American soul and R&B singer known for hits in the 1960s and 1970s and for being part of the musical Warwick–Houston family.
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C.
Cissy Houston
Cissy Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned both for her own recording and backup vocal career and as the matriarch of the Houston musical family.
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D.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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E.
Melba Phillips
Melba Phillips was an influential American physicist and educator known for her work in theoretical physics and for coauthoring the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear physics.
- 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: Addie Mae Collins Target entity description: Addie Mae Collins was a 14-year-old African American girl who became one of the four young martyrs of the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal tragedy of the civil rights movement.
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A.
Crystal Langhorne
Crystal Langhorne is an American former professional basketball player and WNBA All-Star known for her efficient post play and key contributions to multiple championship-contending teams.
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B.
Dee Dee Warwick
Dee Dee Warwick was an American soul and R&B singer known for hits in the 1960s and 1970s and for being part of the musical Warwick–Houston family.
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C.
Cissy Houston
Cissy Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned both for her own recording and backup vocal career and as the matriarch of the Houston musical family.
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D.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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E.
Melba Phillips
Melba Phillips was an influential American physicist and educator known for her work in theoretical physics and for coauthoring the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights movement victim
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 14 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Birmingham, Alabama, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | bombing ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Civil Rights Memorial
ⓘ
surface form:
Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama
civil rights memorials in Birmingham ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn | historical accounts of the civil rights movement ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1963-09-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Collins ⓘ |
| givenName | Addie ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | student ⓘ |
| hasRole | martyr of the civil rights movement ⓘ |
| killedBy | Ku Klux Klan ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| memberOf |
16th Street Baptist Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
|
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
16th Street Baptist Church
ⓘ
surface form:
1963 Birmingham church bombing
|
| notableFor | being one of four girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing ⓘ |
| partOf |
African-American history
ⓘ
surface form:
African American history
four girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Birmingham, Alabama, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Birmingham, Alabama, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Birmingham, Alabama, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling | Sarah Collins Rudolph ⓘ |
| victimOf |
16th Street Baptist Church
ⓘ
surface form:
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
|
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: Addie Mae Collins Description of subject: Addie Mae Collins was a 14-year-old African American girl who became one of the four young martyrs of the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal tragedy of the civil rights movement.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Denise McNair