Bob Moses
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Bob Moses was a prominent civil rights activist and organizer best known for his leadership in voter registration drives and grassroots education initiatives in the American South during the 1960s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Moses canonical | 8 |
| Robert Parris Moses | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T412651 — 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: Bob Moses Context triple: [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, keyPerson, Bob Moses]
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A.
James Farmer
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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B.
Hosea Williams
Hosea Williams was an American civil rights leader, close associate of Martin Luther King Jr., and prominent organizer of nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
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C.
Julian Bond
Julian Bond was a prominent American civil rights leader, politician, and educator who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later chaired the NAACP.
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D.
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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E.
James Bevel
James Bevel was a prominent American civil rights leader and strategist, closely associated with Martin Luther King Jr., who played key roles in major campaigns such as the Freedom Rides, the Selma voting rights movement, and anti-war activism.
- 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: Bob Moses Target entity description: Bob Moses was a prominent civil rights activist and organizer best known for his leadership in voter registration drives and grassroots education initiatives in the American South during the 1960s.
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A.
James Farmer
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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B.
Hosea Williams
Hosea Williams was an American civil rights leader, close associate of Martin Luther King Jr., and prominent organizer of nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
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C.
Julian Bond
Julian Bond was a prominent American civil rights leader, politician, and educator who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later chaired the NAACP.
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D.
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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E.
James Bevel
James Bevel was a prominent American civil rights leader and strategist, closely associated with Martin Luther King Jr., who played key roles in major campaigns such as the Freedom Rides, the Selma voting rights movement, and anti-war activism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Heinz Award
ⓘ
surface form:
Heinz Award in the Human Condition
MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1935-01-23 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Harlem
ⓘ
surface form:
Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
|
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2021-07-25 ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Hamilton College
ⓘ
Master’s degree in philosophy from Harvard University ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Hamilton College
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ Stuyvesant High School ⓘ |
| employer | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Moses ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
grassroots organizing
ⓘ
mathematics education ⓘ voting rights ⓘ |
| founded | Algebra Project ⓘ |
| fullName |
Bob Moses
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Robert Parris Moses
|
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary math education reformers
ⓘ
grassroots community organizers in the United States ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ella Baker
ⓘ
Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| knownFor |
civil rights activism in the American South
ⓘ
founding the Algebra Project ⓘ grassroots education initiatives ⓘ leadership in voter registration drives ⓘ work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ |
| memberOf | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ |
| movement |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
Civil Rights Movement
|
| notableWork |
Algebra Project
ⓘ
Freedom Summer ⓘ
surface form:
Freedom Summer 1964 organizing
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi voter registration campaigns
|
| positionHeld | field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
|
| spouse | Janet Jemmott Moses ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Alabama
ⓘ
Louisiana ⓘ Mississippi ⓘ |
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: Bob Moses Description of subject: Bob Moses was a prominent civil rights activist and organizer best known for his leadership in voter registration drives and grassroots education initiatives in the American South during the 1960s.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert Parris Moses