"I Have a Dream" speech
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The "I Have a Dream" speech is Martin Luther King Jr.’s landmark 1963 address calling for racial equality and civil rights, delivered during the March on Washington and now regarded as one of the most iconic speeches in American history.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| I Have a Dream | 5 |
| "I Have a Dream" speech canonical | 4 |
| Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech | 4 |
| I Have a Dream speech | 1 |
| “I Have a Dream” speech | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15975 — 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: "I Have a Dream" speech Context triple: [Martin Luther King Jr., notableWork, "I Have a Dream" speech]
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A.
Inaugural Address "Ask not what your country can do for you"
The Inaugural Address "Ask not what your country can do for you" is John F. Kennedy’s famous 1961 presidential inauguration speech, renowned for its call to civic duty and inspirational Cold War-era rhetoric.
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"Day of Infamy" speech
The "Day of Infamy" speech is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic address to the U.S. Congress on December 8, 1941, calling for a declaration of war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.
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D.
Mr. President
"Mr. President" is the formal spoken address traditionally used for the sitting President of the United States.
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E.
The Protester
The Protester is the collective title Time magazine gave in 2011 to individuals worldwide who participated in mass demonstrations and uprisings, symbolizing the power of grassroots activism in shaping global events.
- 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: "I Have a Dream" speech Target entity description: The "I Have a Dream" speech is Martin Luther King Jr.’s landmark 1963 address calling for racial equality and civil rights, delivered during the March on Washington and now regarded as one of the most iconic speeches in American history.
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A.
Inaugural Address "Ask not what your country can do for you"
The Inaugural Address "Ask not what your country can do for you" is John F. Kennedy’s famous 1961 presidential inauguration speech, renowned for its call to civic duty and inspirational Cold War-era rhetoric.
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B.
"Day of Infamy" speech
The "Day of Infamy" speech is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic address to the U.S. Congress on December 8, 1941, calling for a declaration of war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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C.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.
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D.
Mr. President
"Mr. President" is the formal spoken address traditionally used for the sitting President of the United States.
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E.
The Protester
The Protester is the collective title Time magazine gave in 2011 to individuals worldwide who participated in mass demonstrations and uprisings, symbolizing the power of grassroots activism in shaping global events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights speech
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historical event ⓘ public speech ⓘ |
| aimedAt |
ending racial segregation in the United States
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securing civil and economic rights for African Americans ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization | Southern Christian Leadership Conference ⓘ |
| audienceSizeApproximate | 250000 ⓘ |
| author | Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
radio
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television ⓘ |
| city | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| date | 1963-08-28 ⓘ |
| event | March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ⓘ |
| famousLine |
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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"I have a dream" ⓘ "Let freedom ring" ⓘ |
| genre |
oratory
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political speech ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Cold War
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surface form:
Cold War era
Jim Crow laws ⓘ
surface form:
Jim Crow segregation
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| influenced |
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legacy |
symbol of the civil rights movement
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touchstone for discussions of race in America ⓘ |
| moralFramework | Christian ethics ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| philosophicalInfluence | Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolence ⓘ |
| place | Lincoln Memorial ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | one of the greatest speeches in American history ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | United States National Recording Registry ⓘ |
| referencesDocument |
Emancipation Proclamation
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United States Constitution ⓘ American Declaration of Independence ⓘ
surface form:
United States Declaration of Independence
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| rhetoricalDevice |
biblical allusion
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metaphor ⓘ repetition ⓘ |
| speaker | Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
academic studies
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numerous documentaries ⓘ |
| theme |
civil rights
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economic justice ⓘ end of segregation ⓘ nonviolence ⓘ racial equality ⓘ voting rights ⓘ |
| year | 1963 ⓘ |
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: "I Have a Dream" speech Description of subject: The "I Have a Dream" speech is Martin Luther King Jr.’s landmark 1963 address calling for racial equality and civil rights, delivered during the March on Washington and now regarded as one of the most iconic speeches in American history.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
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I Have a Dream
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Stone of Hope
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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I Have a Dream
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“I Have a Dream” speech
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Symphony of Brotherhood
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I Have a Dream
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
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I Have a Dream
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
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I Have a Dream