New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey
E19348
New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey is a historic African American congregation best known as the home church of Whitney Houston and the place where she first showcased her vocal talent in its renowned choir.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Hope Baptist Church, Newark | 1 |
| New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T155741 — 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: New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey Context triple: [New Hope Baptist Church choir, activityLocation, New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey]
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A.
Community of Christ Temple
The Community of Christ Temple is a distinctive spiral-shaped worship and administrative center of the Community of Christ denomination, renowned as a religious landmark and pilgrimage site in Independence, Missouri.
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B.
St. Thomas Church, New York City
St. Thomas Church in New York City is a prominent Episcopal parish church on Fifth Avenue, renowned for its Gothic Revival architecture, elaborate stone carvings, and rich choral music tradition.
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C.
Frederik Lutheran Church
Frederik Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church in Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, known for its colonial-era architecture and long-standing role in the island’s religious life.
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D.
Old First Presbyterian Church (Huntington, New York)
Old First Presbyterian Church in Huntington, New York, is a historic Presbyterian church building recognized for its longstanding religious and architectural significance in the community.
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E.
St. James Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, New York
St. James Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, New York, is a historic Episcopal parish church notable as the Roosevelt family’s home church and burial site, including that of James Roosevelt I.
- 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: New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey Target entity description: New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey is a historic African American congregation best known as the home church of Whitney Houston and the place where she first showcased her vocal talent in its renowned choir.
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A.
Community of Christ Temple
The Community of Christ Temple is a distinctive spiral-shaped worship and administrative center of the Community of Christ denomination, renowned as a religious landmark and pilgrimage site in Independence, Missouri.
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B.
St. Thomas Church, New York City
St. Thomas Church in New York City is a prominent Episcopal parish church on Fifth Avenue, renowned for its Gothic Revival architecture, elaborate stone carvings, and rich choral music tradition.
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C.
Frederik Lutheran Church
Frederik Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church in Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, known for its colonial-era architecture and long-standing role in the island’s religious life.
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D.
Old First Presbyterian Church (Huntington, New York)
Old First Presbyterian Church in Huntington, New York, is a historic Presbyterian church building recognized for its longstanding religious and architectural significance in the community.
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E.
St. James Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, New York
St. James Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, New York, is a historic Episcopal parish church notable as the Roosevelt family’s home church and burial site, including that of James Roosevelt I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American church
ⓘ
Baptist church ⓘ Christian religious organization ⓘ church ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American gospel tradition
ⓘ
Newark’s African American history ⓘ Cissy Houston ⓘ
surface form:
Whitney Houston family
gospel music ⓘ |
| choirReputation | renowned ⓘ |
| city | Newark ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalSignificance |
important site in African American religious life in Newark
ⓘ
important site in the musical development of Whitney Houston ⓘ |
| denomination | Baptist ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
choir performances
ⓘ
community outreach ⓘ religious education ⓘ worship services ⓘ |
| hasBuildingUse |
funeral services
ⓘ
religious services ⓘ weddings ⓘ |
| hasChoir | New Hope Baptist Church choir ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | local African American community in Newark ⓘ |
| hasCongregationType | African American congregation ⓘ |
| hasNotableChoirMember |
Cissy Houston
ⓘ
Whitney Houston ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent |
Whitney Houston singing in the church choir as a child
ⓘ
Whitney Houston’s funeral service ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Cissy Houston
ⓘ
Whitney Houston ⓘ |
| heritage | historic African American congregation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorship | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Essex County, New Jersey
ⓘ
New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
Newark, New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Newark, New Jersey
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| musicTradition |
church choir music
ⓘ
gospel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the church where Whitney Houston first showcased her vocal talent
ⓘ
being the home church of Whitney Houston ⓘ its renowned church choir ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| state |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
|
| usedFor |
Christian worship
ⓘ
community gatherings ⓘ gospel music performances ⓘ |
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: New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey Description of subject: New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey is a historic African American congregation best known as the home church of Whitney Houston and the place where she first showcased her vocal talent in its renowned choir.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New Hope Baptist Church, Newark