C. K. Steele
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C. K. Steele was a prominent African-American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who played a key role in the Southern civil rights movement, particularly through his leadership in bus boycotts and work with national organizations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| C. K. Steele canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T80448 — 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: C. K. Steele Context triple: [Southern Christian Leadership Conference, foundedBy, C. K. Steele]
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A.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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B.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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C.
A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
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D.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
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E.
C. S. Van Winkle
C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- 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: C. K. Steele Target entity description: C. K. Steele was a prominent African-American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who played a key role in the Southern civil rights movement, particularly through his leadership in bus boycotts and work with national organizations.
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A.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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B.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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C.
A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
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D.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
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E.
C. S. Van Winkle
C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African-American religious leader
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Baptist minister ⓘ civil rights leader ⓘ human ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
desegregation of public transportation
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racial equality ⓘ voting rights for African Americans ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Steele ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Christian ministry
ⓘ
civil rights ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground | African-American Baptist community in the South ⓘ |
| hasRole |
community organizer
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religious leader in the civil rights movement ⓘ |
| ideology |
Christian social justice
ⓘ
nonviolence ⓘ |
| influenced |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference strategies
ⓘ
local civil rights activism in Tallahassee ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Black church tradition ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership in bus boycotts in the American South
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nonviolent civil rights activism ⓘ religious leadership in the civil rights movement ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NAACP
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surface form:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Southern Christian Leadership Conference ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableFor | coordination between local and national civil rights organizations ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership in Southern bus boycotts
ⓘ
leadership in Tallahassee bus boycott ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
minister ⓘ pastor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern civil rights movement
|
| placeOfActivity |
Southern United States
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Tallahassee ⓘ
surface form:
Tallahassee, Florida
|
| positionHeld |
president of the Tallahassee Inter-Civic Council
ⓘ
vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ⓘ |
| religion |
Baptists
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surface form:
Baptist
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole | leader in bus boycott campaigns ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Tallahassee
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surface form:
Tallahassee, Florida
|
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: C. K. Steele Description of subject: C. K. Steele was a prominent African-American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who played a key role in the Southern civil rights movement, particularly through his leadership in bus boycotts and work with national organizations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.