Black Star Line

E167547

defunct company shipping company

Black Star Line was a shipping company established in the early 20th century as part of a broader movement to promote Black economic independence and facilitate the return of the African diaspora to Africa.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Black Star Line canonical	3
Black Star Line (Ghana) shipping line	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	defunct company ⓘ shipping company ⓘ
associatedWith	Back-to-Africa movement ⓘ Black nationalism ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dissolved	1922 ⓘ
facedIssue	financial mismanagement ⓘ fraud allegations ⓘ government scrutiny ⓘ lack of maritime experience ⓘ poor ship condition ⓘ
financedBy	UNIA members ⓘ small Black investors ⓘ
foundedBy	Marcus Garvey ⓘ Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League ⓘ surface form: Universal Negro Improvement Association
hasColorSymbolism	black star emblem ⓘ
hasPurpose	create Black-controlled global shipping network ⓘ facilitate return of African diaspora to Africa ⓘ promote Black economic independence ⓘ support Pan-Africanism ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Harlem ⓘ New York City ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Harlem Renaissance ⓘ surface form: Harlem Renaissance era
historicalSignificance	early Black-owned transatlantic shipping venture ⓘ icon of Pan-African economic nationalism ⓘ symbol of Black self-reliance ⓘ
inception	1919 ⓘ
inspired	Black Star Line self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Black Star Line (Ghana) shipping line use of Black Star symbol in Ghanaian flag ⓘ
legalCase	United States v. Marcus Garvey ⓘ
mediaCoverage	The Negro World ⓘ
notableShip	Kanawha ⓘ SS Shady Side ⓘ SS Yarmouth ⓘ
operatedIn	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Caribbean Sea ⓘ West Africa ⓘ
ownedBy	Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League ⓘ surface form: Universal Negro Improvement Association
partOf	Marcus Garvey ⓘ surface form: Garveyism Pan-Africanism ⓘ surface form: Pan-African movement
serviceType	freight transport ⓘ mail transport ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ
slogan	A Black Star Line ship for every Black man ⓘ
stockSymbol	B.S.L. (historical, internal) ⓘ
targetDemographic	people of African descent ⓘ

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: Black Star Line
Description of subject: Black Star Line was a shipping company established in the early 20th century as part of a broader movement to promote Black economic independence and facilitate the return of the African diaspora to Africa.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Marcus Garvey → founded → Black Star Line ⓘ

Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League → operatedBusiness → Black Star Line ⓘ

Black Star Line → inspired → Black Star Line self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Black Star Line (Ghana) shipping line

Negro World newspaper → associatedOrganization → Black Star Line ⓘ

subject surface form: Negro World