Vivian Malone Jones
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Vivian Malone Jones was a pioneering African American civil rights figure best known as one of the first Black students to successfully integrate the University of Alabama.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vivian Malone Jones canonical | 4 |
| Vivian Malone | 2 |
| Vivian Juanita Malone Jones | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2751113 — 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: Vivian Malone Jones Context triple: [1963 "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident, involvedPerson, Vivian Malone Jones]
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A.
Jo Ann Robinson
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist and educator who played a pivotal organizing role in initiating and sustaining the Montgomery bus boycott.
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B.
Annie Lee Cooper
Annie Lee Cooper was a prominent African American civil rights activist known for her courageous efforts to secure voting rights for Black citizens in Selma, Alabama.
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C.
Diane Nash
Diane Nash is an influential American civil rights leader known for her pivotal role in the Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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D.
Christine King Farris
Christine King Farris was an American educator, author, and civil rights activist, best known as the eldest sister of Martin Luther King Jr. and a longtime steward of his legacy.
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E.
Aurelia S. Browder
Aurelia S. Browder was a civil rights activist whose arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, led to her serving as a key plaintiff in the landmark case that helped end bus segregation.
- 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: Vivian Malone Jones Target entity description: Vivian Malone Jones was a pioneering African American civil rights figure best known as one of the first Black students to successfully integrate the University of Alabama.
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A.
Jo Ann Robinson
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist and educator who played a pivotal organizing role in initiating and sustaining the Montgomery bus boycott.
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B.
Annie Lee Cooper
Annie Lee Cooper was a prominent African American civil rights activist known for her courageous efforts to secure voting rights for Black citizens in Selma, Alabama.
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C.
Diane Nash
Diane Nash is an influential American civil rights leader known for her pivotal role in the Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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D.
Christine King Farris
Christine King Farris was an American educator, author, and civil rights activist, best known as the eldest sister of Martin Luther King Jr. and a longtime steward of his legacy.
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E.
Aurelia S. Browder
Aurelia S. Browder was a civil rights activist whose arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, led to her serving as a key plaintiff in the landmark case that helped end bus segregation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alumni of the University of Alabama
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civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Foundation Award for Distinguished Public Service
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surface form:
Lyndon B. Johnson Freedom Award
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| birthDate | 1942-07-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Mobile, Alabama
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surface form:
Mobile, Alabama, United States
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| blockedBy | George Wallace ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Atlanta
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surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| co-enrolledWith | James Hood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2005-10-13 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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| educatedAt |
Alabama State University
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surface form:
Alabama State College
University of Alabama ⓘ |
| employer |
United States Department of Justice
ⓘ
United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| enrolledAt | University of Alabama in 1963 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| event | Stand in the Schoolhouse Door ⓘ |
| familyName | Malone ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | business management ⓘ |
| fullName |
Vivian Malone Jones
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones
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| givenName | Vivian ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| hasMemorial | Vivian Malone Jones Hall at the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| honoredBy | University of Alabama ⓘ |
| influenced | desegregation of higher education in Alabama ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the first Black students to enroll at the University of Alabama
ⓘ
being the first Black graduate of the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first African American to graduate from the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| notableFor | desegregating the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
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federal government official ⓘ |
| parent |
Bertha Malone
ⓘ
Willie Malone ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of Civil Rights and Urban Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice
ⓘ
Director of Environmental Justice at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| receivedDegree | bachelor’s degree in business management ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlanta
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surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Mobile, Alabama ⓘ
surface form:
Mobile, Alabama, United States
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| sibling | Shirley Malone ⓘ |
| spouse | Mack Arthur Jones ⓘ |
| wasBlockedFromEntering | University of Alabama ⓘ |
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: Vivian Malone Jones Description of subject: Vivian Malone Jones was a pioneering African American civil rights figure best known as one of the first Black students to successfully integrate the University of Alabama.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vivian Malone
this entity surface form:
Vivian Malone
this entity surface form:
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones