Abel Meeropol
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Abel Meeropol was an American songwriter, poet, and teacher best known for writing the anti-lynching poem and song "Strange Fruit," famously performed by Billie Holiday.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Abel Meeropol canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7549303 — 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: Abel Meeropol Context triple: [Strange Fruit, lyricsBy, Abel Meeropol]
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A.
Herbert Aptheker
Herbert Aptheker was an American Marxist historian and activist best known for his pioneering scholarship on African American history and slave revolts.
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B.
Morris Hillquit
Morris Hillquit was a prominent early 20th-century American socialist leader, lawyer, and political theorist who helped shape the socialist movement in the United States.
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C.
Aaron Rosenberg
Aaron Rosenberg was an American film and television producer best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood features, including several notable war and adventure films.
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D.
Ibram Lassaw
Ibram Lassaw was an American abstract sculptor known for his openwork, welded metal constructions and his role in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism.
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E.
Benjamin Gitlow
Benjamin Gitlow was an American socialist politician and activist best known as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court free speech case Gitlow v. New York.
- 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: Abel Meeropol Target entity description: Abel Meeropol was an American songwriter, poet, and teacher best known for writing the anti-lynching poem and song "Strange Fruit," famously performed by Billie Holiday.
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A.
Herbert Aptheker
Herbert Aptheker was an American Marxist historian and activist best known for his pioneering scholarship on African American history and slave revolts.
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B.
Morris Hillquit
Morris Hillquit was a prominent early 20th-century American socialist leader, lawyer, and political theorist who helped shape the socialist movement in the United States.
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C.
Aaron Rosenberg
Aaron Rosenberg was an American film and television producer best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood features, including several notable war and adventure films.
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D.
Ibram Lassaw
Ibram Lassaw was an American abstract sculptor known for his openwork, welded metal constructions and his role in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism.
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E.
Benjamin Gitlow
Benjamin Gitlow was an American socialist politician and activist best known as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court free speech case Gitlow v. New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
poet ⓘ songwriter ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| adopted |
Michael Meeropol
NERFINISHED
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Robert Meeropol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adoptedChildrenOf |
Ethel Rosenberg
NERFINISHED
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Julius Rosenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedSongOn | poem "Bitter Fruit" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfFame | authoring the anti-lynching poem and song "Strange Fruit" ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1903-02-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-10-30 ⓘ |
| employer | New York City public school system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| genre | protest song ⓘ |
| influenced | American civil rights music ⓘ |
| influencedBy | racial violence in the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Federation of Teachers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | American left-wing politics ⓘ |
| name | Abel Meeropol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early musical protest against lynching in America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Strange Fruit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The House I Live In NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
poet
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schoolteacher ⓘ songwriter ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ The Bronx NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | left-wing ⓘ |
| pseudonym | Lewis Allan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| spouse | Anne Meeropol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | biographical studies on "Strange Fruit" ⓘ |
| wrote |
Strange Fruit
NERFINISHED
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poem "Bitter Fruit" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteLyricsFor | The House I Live In NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Abel Meeropol Description of subject: Abel Meeropol was an American songwriter, poet, and teacher best known for writing the anti-lynching poem and song "Strange Fruit," famously performed by Billie Holiday.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.