Denise McNair
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Denise McNair was one of the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal event in the U.S. civil rights movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Denise McNair canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1720585 — 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: Denise McNair Context triple: [Carole Robertson, coVictim, Denise McNair]
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A.
Valarie Pettiford
Valarie Pettiford is an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including roles in productions such as the musical "Fosse" and the TV series "Half & Half."
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B.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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C.
Arline Wilkins
Arline Wilkins was the first wife of American singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers, married to him before his rise to major Hollywood fame.
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D.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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E.
Arvilla Knight
Arvilla Knight was the wife of California Governor Goodwin Knight and served as the state's First Lady during his administration.
- 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: Denise McNair Target entity description: Denise McNair was one of the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal event in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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A.
Valarie Pettiford
Valarie Pettiford is an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including roles in productions such as the musical "Fosse" and the TV series "Half & Half."
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B.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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C.
Arline Wilkins
Arline Wilkins was the first wife of American singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers, married to him before his rise to major Hollywood fame.
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D.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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E.
Arvilla Knight
Arvilla Knight was the wife of California Governor Goodwin Knight and served as the state's First Lady during his administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American child
ⓘ
civil rights movement victim ⓘ person ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 11 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Birmingham campaign
ⓘ
struggle against racial segregation in the United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
bombing
ⓘ
terrorist attack ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
historical markers about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
ⓘ
public memorials in Birmingham, Alabama ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-11-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1963-09-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1963-09-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | McNair ⓘ |
| father | Chris McNair ⓘ |
| fullName | Carol Denise McNair ⓘ |
| givenName |
Carol
ⓘ
Denise ⓘ |
| hasLegacy | symbol of the cost of racial hatred in the United States ⓘ |
| hasMemorial |
16th Street Baptist Church memorials
ⓘ
Civil Rights Memorial ⓘ
surface form:
Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama
|
| killedAlongside |
Addie Mae Collins
ⓘ
Carole Robertson ⓘ Cynthia Wesley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | being one of four girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| movementContext | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
16th Street Baptist Church
ⓘ
surface form:
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
|
| occupation | student ⓘ |
| parent | Chris McNair ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Birmingham, Alabama, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Birmingham, Alabama, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfEvent |
16th Street Baptist Church
ⓘ
surface form:
16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
|
| religion |
Baptists
ⓘ
surface form:
Baptist Christianity
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| significantIn |
history of racial violence in the United States
ⓘ
history of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama ⓘ |
| victimOf |
16th Street Baptist Church
ⓘ
surface form:
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
|
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: Denise McNair Description of subject: Denise McNair was one of the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal event in the U.S. civil rights movement.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Addie Mae Collins