Selma
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Selma is a historic city in central Alabama best known as a key site of the American civil rights movement, particularly the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selma canonical | 7 |
| Black in Selma | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T820555 — 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: Selma Context triple: [Alabama, containsCity, Selma]
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A.
Selma (2014 film)
Selma is a 2014 historical drama film that chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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B.
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a 1964 campaign in Mississippi that mobilized civil rights activists to challenge racial segregation and disenfranchisement by registering Black voters and establishing community programs.
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C.
Dia da Liberdade
Dia da Liberdade is Portugal’s national holiday on April 25th commemorating the 1974 Carnation Revolution that ended the Estado Novo dictatorship and restored democracy.
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D.
The Green Book
The Green Book is Muammar Gaddafi’s political manifesto outlining his idiosyncratic “Third International Theory,” which rejects both capitalism and communism and proposes a system of direct popular rule.
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E.
1966 Meredith March Against Fear
The 1966 Meredith March Against Fear was a pivotal civil rights demonstration in Mississippi that, after the shooting of organizer James Meredith, became a mass march and a key moment in the emergence and popularization of the Black Power movement.
- 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: Selma Target entity description: Selma is a historic city in central Alabama best known as a key site of the American civil rights movement, particularly the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
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A.
Selma (2014 film)
Selma is a 2014 historical drama film that chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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B.
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a 1964 campaign in Mississippi that mobilized civil rights activists to challenge racial segregation and disenfranchisement by registering Black voters and establishing community programs.
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C.
Dia da Liberdade
Dia da Liberdade is Portugal’s national holiday on April 25th commemorating the 1974 Carnation Revolution that ended the Estado Novo dictatorship and restored democracy.
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D.
The Green Book
The Green Book is Muammar Gaddafi’s political manifesto outlining his idiosyncratic “Third International Theory,” which rejects both capitalism and communism and proposes a system of direct popular rule.
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E.
1966 Meredith March Against Fear
The 1966 Meredith March Against Fear was a pivotal civil rights demonstration in Mississippi that, after the shooting of organizer James Meredith, became a mass march and a key moment in the emergence and popularization of the Black Power movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| eventOccurredHere |
Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965)
ⓘ
Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965) ⓘ
surface form:
Turnaround Tuesday (March 9, 1965)
Selma to Montgomery marches ⓘ
surface form:
third Selma to Montgomery march (March 21–25, 1965)
|
| foundedAs | town ⓘ |
| governingBody | City government of Selma, Alabama ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 334 ⓘ |
| hasCulturalDesignation |
listed places on the National Register of Historic Places (multiple properties)
ⓘ
site on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail ⓘ |
| hasDemographics | majority African American population (historically and in recent decades) ⓘ |
| hasEconomicHistory |
Confederate industrial center during the American Civil War
ⓘ
center of cotton trade ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Selma University
ⓘ
Wallace Community College Selma ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Selma Historic District ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite |
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Edmund Pettus Bridge ⓘ First Baptist Church (Selma, Alabama) ⓘ
surface form:
First Baptist Church, Selma
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute ⓘ Old Depot Museum ⓘ Old Live Oak Cemetery ⓘ Sturdivant Hall ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Dallas County Courthouse
ⓘ
Edmund Pettus Bridge ⓘ |
| hasMediaPortrayal | depicted in the film "Selma" (2014) ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 36701 ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | US Route 80 passes through Selma ⓘ |
| influenced | passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Dallas County, Alabama ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Selma to Montgomery marches
ⓘ
surface form:
1965 Selma to Montgomery marches
American civil rights movement ⓘ Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965) ⓘ
surface form:
Bloody Sunday (1965)
voting rights activism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alabama
ⓘ
Dallas County, Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Central Alabama
ⓘ
surface form:
central Alabama
|
| locatedOnRiver | Alabama River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Alabama Black Belt region
ⓘ
surface form:
Black Belt region of Alabama
|
| roleInHistory |
center of 1960s voting rights campaign in Alabama
ⓘ
starting point of Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Selma Description of subject: Selma is a historic city in central Alabama best known as a key site of the American civil rights movement, particularly the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Black in Selma