Alicia Garza
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Alicia Garza is an American civil rights activist and writer best known as one of the co-creators of the Black Lives Matter movement, advocating for racial justice and police accountability.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alicia Garza canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10908398 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alicia Garza Context triple: [Black Lives Matter movement, hasCoFounder, Alicia Garza]
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Jamila Woods
Jamila Woods is an American singer, songwriter, and poet from Chicago known for her soulful, socially conscious R&B and collaborations within the city's hip-hop and spoken-word scenes.
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B.
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw is an American legal scholar and critical race theorist best known for developing the concept of intersectionality to explain how overlapping systems of oppression shape the experiences of Black women.
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C.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American sociologist, writer, and public intellectual known for her work on race, inequality, and higher education.
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D.
Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke is an American civil rights activist best known for originating the "Me Too" movement to support survivors of sexual violence.
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E.
Angela Stevenson
Angela Stevenson is a fictional character from the American sitcom "The Gregory Hines Show," serving as part of the series' ensemble in its exploration of family and work life.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alicia Garza Target entity description: Alicia Garza is an American civil rights activist and writer best known as one of the co-creators of the Black Lives Matter movement, advocating for racial justice and police accountability.
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A.
Jamila Woods
Jamila Woods is an American singer, songwriter, and poet from Chicago known for her soulful, socially conscious R&B and collaborations within the city's hip-hop and spoken-word scenes.
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B.
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw is an American legal scholar and critical race theorist best known for developing the concept of intersectionality to explain how overlapping systems of oppression shape the experiences of Black women.
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C.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American sociologist, writer, and public intellectual known for her work on race, inequality, and higher education.
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D.
Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke is an American civil rights activist best known for originating the "Me Too" movement to support survivors of sexual violence.
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E.
Angela Stevenson
Angela Stevenson is a fictional character from the American sitcom "The Gregory Hines Show," serving as part of the series' ensemble in its exploration of family and work life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
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community organizer ⓘ human ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
LGBTQ+ rights
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criminal justice reform ⓘ police accountability ⓘ racial equality ⓘ workers' rights ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
Black Lives Matter Global Network
NERFINISHED
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National Domestic Workers Alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Black Lives Matter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFoundedWith |
Opal Tometi
NERFINISHED
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Patrisse Cullors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1981-01-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African Americans
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| familyName | Garza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Black feminism
NERFINISHED
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LGBTQ+ rights ⓘ police reform ⓘ racial justice ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| founded |
Black Futures Lab
NERFINISHED
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Black to the Future Action Fund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Alicia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWritten | The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Black Lives Matter movement
NERFINISHED
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advocacy for police accountability ⓘ advocacy for racial justice ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| movement | Black Lives Matter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Alicia Garza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea | Black lives matter slogan as a rallying cry against anti-Black racism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
NERFINISHED
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co-creation of the Black Lives Matter movement ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
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community organizer ⓘ political strategist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Oakland, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | progressive ⓘ |
| positionHeld | special projects director at National Domestic Workers Alliance ⓘ |
| residence | Oakland, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | queer ⓘ |
| spouse | Malachi Garza 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: Alicia Garza Description of subject: Alicia Garza is an American civil rights activist and writer best known as one of the co-creators of the Black Lives Matter movement, advocating for racial justice and police accountability.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.