This Little Light of Mine
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"This Little Light of Mine" is a popular gospel song and spiritual often associated with the civil rights movement and sung to express hope, resilience, and personal faith.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Little Light of Mine canonical | 4 |
| O Mary Don’t You Weep | 2 |
| This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine | 1 |
| gospel song "This Little Light of Mine" | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian hymn
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gospel song ⓘ song ⓘ spiritual ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
African-American church tradition
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African American spirituals ⓘ
surface form:
African-American spirituals
civil rights movement in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| culturalSignificance |
anthem of the civil rights era
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standard in gospel repertoire ⓘ widely known children’s religious song ⓘ |
| expresses |
Christian faith
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collective solidarity ⓘ individual spiritual commitment ⓘ |
| function |
children’s Christian song
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protest song ⓘ song of encouragement ⓘ |
| genre |
Christian music
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gospel ⓘ spiritual ⓘ |
| hasForm |
call and response
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strophic song ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
children
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civil rights activists ⓘ congregations ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricsOpeningLine |
This Little Light of Mine
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
|
| notableUse |
sung at civil rights demonstrations
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sung in marches led by civil rights leaders ⓘ |
| performanceContext |
Sunday school
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church services ⓘ civil rights rallies ⓘ community gatherings ⓘ protest marches ⓘ |
| refrain | I’m gonna let it shine ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
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Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| symbolism |
light as symbol of hope
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light as symbol of inner faith ⓘ light as symbol of resistance to oppression ⓘ |
| theme |
faith
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hope ⓘ light as a metaphor for faith ⓘ personal testimony ⓘ resilience ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPopularization | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| usedDuring | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
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: This Little Light of Mine Description of subject: "This Little Light of Mine" is a popular gospel song and spiritual often associated with the civil rights movement and sung to express hope, resilience, and personal faith.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Songs of Joy & Peace
this entity surface form:
O Mary Don’t You Weep
this entity surface form:
O Mary Don’t You Weep
This Little Light of Mine
→
lyricsOpeningLine
→
This Little Light of Mine
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
this entity surface form:
gospel song "This Little Light of Mine"