Whitney Young

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Whitney Young was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime head of the National Urban League, known for his pragmatic, behind-the-scenes efforts to combat racial inequality and expand economic opportunities for Black Americans.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Whitney Young canonical 6
Whitney M. Young Jr. 5
Whitney M. Young 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf civil rights leader
human
nonprofit executive
social worker
academicDegree Bachelor’s degree in social work
Master’s degree in social work
awardReceived Presidential Medal of Freedom
Spingarn Medal
burialPlace Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky, United States
surface form: Lincoln Ridge Cemetery, Kentucky, United States
causeOfDeath drowning
conflict World War II
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateAwarded Spingarn Medal
surface form: 1964 (Spingarn Medal)

1969 (Presidential Medal of Freedom)
dateOfBirth 1921-07-31
dateOfDeath 1971-03-11
educatedAt Kentucky State University
surface form: Kentucky State College

University of Minnesota
employer Atlanta University School of Social Work
National Urban League
endTime 1971 (as Executive Director of the National Urban League)
ethnicGroup Black Americans
surface form: African American
familyName Young
fullName Whitney Young self-linksurface differs
surface form: Whitney Moore Young Jr.
givenName Whitney
influenced National Urban League’s emphasis on economic empowerment
knownFor advocacy for economic opportunities for Black Americans
pragmatic, behind-the-scenes civil rights leadership
promoting corporate and government partnerships to combat racial inequality
memberOf Alpha Phi Alpha
NAACP
surface form: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Urban League
militaryBranch United States Army
movement American civil rights movement
notableIdea “Domestic Marshall Plan” for American cities
notableWork To Be Equal
numberOfChildren 2
occupation civil rights activist
executive director
social worker
placeOfBirth Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky, United States
placeOfDeath Lagos
surface form: Lagos, Nigeria
positionHeld Dean of the Atlanta University School of Social Work
Executive Director of the National Urban League
religion Baptist
sexOrGender male
spouse Margaret Buckner Young
startTime 1961 (as Executive Director of the National Urban League)

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: Whitney Young
Description of subject: Whitney Young was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime head of the National Urban League, known for his pragmatic, behind-the-scenes efforts to combat racial inequality and expand economic opportunities for Black Americans.

Referenced by (14)

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

National Urban League notableLeader Whitney Young
this entity surface form: Whitney M. Young Jr.
Whitney Young fullName Whitney Young self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Whitney Moore Young Jr.
Young hasNotableBearer Whitney Young
To Be Equal author Whitney Young
To Be Equal workOf Whitney Young
“Domestic Marshall Plan” for American cities proposedBy Whitney Young
subject surface form: Domestic Marshall Plan for American cities
this entity surface form: Whitney M. Young Jr.
Margaret Buckner Young spouse Whitney Young
this entity surface form: Whitney M. Young Jr.
Margaret Buckner Young hasRelative Whitney Young
this entity surface form: Whitney M. Young III
East Capitol Street Bridge namedAfter Whitney Young
this entity surface form: Whitney M. Young Jr.
Whitney M. Young Magnet High School shortName Whitney Young
this entity surface form: Whitney M. Young
Whitney M. Young Magnet High School namedAfter Whitney Young
this entity surface form: Whitney M. Young Jr.