James Farmer
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American politician
author
autobiography
civil rights activist
civil rights campaign
civil rights organization
educator
human
James Farmer was a prominent American civil rights leader and co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), known for organizing the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation in the South.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Farmer canonical | 19 |
| James Farmer Jr. | 3 |
| James Leonard Farmer Jr. | 1 |
| James Leonard Farmer Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T80370 — 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: James Farmer Context triple: [American civil rights movement, keyFigure, James Farmer]
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A.
Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was an influential American civil rights strategist, pacifist, and organizer best known for his behind-the-scenes leadership in the movement, including orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
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B.
A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph was a prominent African American labor leader and civil rights activist who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and helped spearhead the 1963 March on Washington.
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C.
Martin Luther King Sr.
Martin Luther King Sr. was an influential African American Baptist minister and civil rights leader in Atlanta, and the father of Martin Luther King Jr.
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D.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.
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E.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
- 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: James Farmer Target entity description: James Farmer was a prominent American civil rights leader and co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), known for organizing the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation in the South.
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A.
Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was an influential American civil rights strategist, pacifist, and organizer best known for his behind-the-scenes leadership in the movement, including orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
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B.
A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph was a prominent African American labor leader and civil rights activist who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and helped spearhead the 1963 March on Washington.
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C.
Martin Luther King Sr.
Martin Luther King Sr. was an influential African American Baptist minister and civil rights leader in Atlanta, and the father of Martin Luther King Jr.
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D.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.
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E.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
author ⓘ autobiography ⓘ civil rights activist ⓘ civil rights campaign ⓘ civil rights organization ⓘ educator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Alabama
ⓘ
Mississippi ⓘ Texas ⓘ |
| authorOf | Lay Bare the Heart ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Spingarn Medal
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surface form:
NAACP Spingarn Medal
Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1920-01-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Marshall, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications of diabetes ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Congress of Racial Equality ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1999-07-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Howard University
ⓘ
Wiley College ⓘ |
| employer | Congress of Racial Equality ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African Americans
|
| familyName | Farmer ⓘ |
| father |
James Farmer
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
James Leonard Farmer Sr.
|
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights
ⓘ
race relations ⓘ |
| fullName |
James Farmer
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
James Leonard Farmer Jr.
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| ideology | nonviolence ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of nonviolent direct action
ⓘ
leadership in the American civil rights movement ⓘ organizing the Freedom Rides ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Congress of Racial Equality
ⓘ
NAACP ⓘ
surface form:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
|
| movement |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
Civil rights movement
|
| notableWork | Lay Bare the Heart ⓘ |
| organized | Freedom Rides ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Fredericksburg
ⓘ
surface form:
Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
|
| positionHeld |
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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surface form:
Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare of the United States
National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality ⓘ |
| religion |
Methodist churches
ⓘ
surface form:
Methodism
|
| spouse | Winnie Christie Farmer ⓘ |
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: James Farmer Description of subject: James Farmer was a prominent American civil rights leader and co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), known for organizing the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation in the South.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Leonard Farmer Jr.
this entity surface form:
James Leonard Farmer Sr.
this entity surface form:
James Farmer Jr.
subject surface form:
Congress of Racial Equality
subject surface form:
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
subject surface form:
Marshall, Texas
this entity surface form:
James Farmer Jr.
this entity surface form:
James Farmer Jr.