Dallas County Courthouse
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The Dallas County Courthouse is a historic government building in Selma, Alabama, closely associated with the civil rights movement and the Selma voting rights campaigns of the 1960s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dallas County Courthouse canonical | 2 |
| Dallas County Courthouse (Alabama) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4353829 — 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: Dallas County Courthouse Context triple: [Selma, hasLandmark, Dallas County Courthouse]
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A.
Dallas County Courthouse
The Dallas County Courthouse, often called the Old Red Courthouse, is a historic 1890s Romanesque Revival building in downtown Dallas that now serves as a museum and landmark.
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B.
Tarrant County Courthouse
Tarrant County Courthouse is a historic, pink-granite government building in Fort Worth, Texas, known for its distinctive Renaissance Revival architecture and prominent clock tower.
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C.
Dallas County Administration Building
The Dallas County Administration Building is the former Texas School Book Depository in downtown Dallas, historically significant as the site linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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D.
Harris County Civil Courthouse
Harris County Civil Courthouse is a major judicial facility in downtown Houston, Texas, that houses the county’s civil district and county courts.
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E.
Rockwall County Courthouse
Rockwall County Courthouse is the primary judicial and administrative center serving Rockwall County, Texas.
- 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: Dallas County Courthouse Target entity description: The Dallas County Courthouse is a historic government building in Selma, Alabama, closely associated with the civil rights movement and the Selma voting rights campaigns of the 1960s.
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A.
Dallas County Courthouse
The Dallas County Courthouse, often called the Old Red Courthouse, is a historic 1890s Romanesque Revival building in downtown Dallas that now serves as a museum and landmark.
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B.
Tarrant County Courthouse
Tarrant County Courthouse is a historic, pink-granite government building in Fort Worth, Texas, known for its distinctive Renaissance Revival architecture and prominent clock tower.
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C.
Dallas County Administration Building
The Dallas County Administration Building is the former Texas School Book Depository in downtown Dallas, historically significant as the site linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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D.
Harris County Civil Courthouse
Harris County Civil Courthouse is a major judicial facility in downtown Houston, Texas, that houses the county’s civil district and county courts.
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E.
Rockwall County Courthouse
Rockwall County Courthouse is the primary judicial and administrative center serving Rockwall County, Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courthouse
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government building ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | historic Southern civic architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
1960s civil rights protests
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African-American voting rights struggle ⓘ Selma voting rights campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ civil rights movement ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Selma, Alabama
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County courthouses in Alabama ⓘ Government buildings associated with the civil rights movement ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| governs | Dallas County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
offices for county officials
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seat of county court ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | Selma to Montgomery voting rights campaign context ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic courthouse ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alabama
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Dallas County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Selma, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Edmund Pettus Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| partOf | judicial system of Alabama ⓘ |
| significance |
site of civil rights-era legal and administrative actions
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symbol of local resistance to Black voter registration in the 1960s ⓘ |
| topicOf |
civil rights movement histories
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studies of the Selma voting rights struggle ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administration of justice
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county government functions ⓘ judicial proceedings ⓘ |
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: Dallas County Courthouse Description of subject: The Dallas County Courthouse is a historic government building in Selma, Alabama, closely associated with the civil rights movement and the Selma voting rights campaigns of the 1960s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dallas County, Alabama
this entity surface form:
Dallas County Courthouse (Alabama)