James Vincent Meredith
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James Vincent Meredith is an American actor known for his work in Chicago theater and roles in film and television, including appearances in series like "The Chi" and "Fargo."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Vincent Meredith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12671189 — 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: James Vincent Meredith Context triple: [Steppenwolf Theatre Company, hasEnsembleMember, James Vincent Meredith]
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A.
James Meredith
James Meredith is a prominent American civil rights figure best known for integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962 and challenging segregation through his activism.
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B.
George W. McLaurin
George W. McLaurin was an African American educator whose challenge to segregated graduate education led to a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision weakening the legal basis of “separate but equal” in higher education.
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C.
Heman Marion Sweatt
Heman Marion Sweatt was an African American civil rights figure whose challenge to racial segregation in higher education led to the landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
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D.
Ernest Green
Ernest Green is an American civil rights figure best known as the first Black student to graduate from Little Rock Central High School, where he was one of the Little Rock Nine who integrated the previously segregated school in 1957.
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E.
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. is an American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur best known by his stage name Nelly, who rose to fame in the early 2000s with hit albums like "Country Grammar" and "Nellyville."
- 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: James Vincent Meredith Target entity description: James Vincent Meredith is an American actor known for his work in Chicago theater and roles in film and television, including appearances in series like "The Chi" and "Fargo."
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A.
James Meredith
James Meredith is a prominent American civil rights figure best known for integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962 and challenging segregation through his activism.
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B.
George W. McLaurin
George W. McLaurin was an African American educator whose challenge to segregated graduate education led to a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision weakening the legal basis of “separate but equal” in higher education.
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C.
Heman Marion Sweatt
Heman Marion Sweatt was an African American civil rights figure whose challenge to racial segregation in higher education led to the landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
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D.
Ernest Green
Ernest Green is an American civil rights figure best known as the first Black student to graduate from Little Rock Central High School, where he was one of the Little Rock Nine who integrated the previously segregated school in 1957.
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E.
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. is an American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur best known by his stage name Nelly, who rose to fame in the early 2000s with hit albums like "Country Grammar" and "Nellyville."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.