Billy Graham Crusades
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Billy Graham Crusades were large-scale evangelical Christian revival meetings led by American preacher Billy Graham, drawing massive crowds across stadiums and arenas worldwide during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1982676 — 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: Billy Graham Crusades Context triple: [Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, hostedEvent, Billy Graham Crusades]
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Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is a Christian ministry organization dedicated to worldwide evangelism, media outreach, and spiritual counseling, established to support and extend the preaching mission of evangelist Billy Graham.
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Billy Graham Center
The Billy Graham Center is an evangelical Christian museum, archive, and ministry training facility associated with Wheaton College, dedicated to the life and work of evangelist Billy Graham and the history of evangelism.
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C.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham was a prominent American Christian evangelist whose large-scale crusades, media presence, and counsel to U.S. presidents made him one of the most influential religious figures of the 20th century.
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D.
Azusa Street Revival
The Azusa Street Revival was an early 20th-century Christian revival meeting in Los Angeles that sparked the global Pentecostal movement through its emphasis on spiritual gifts, interracial worship, and ecstatic religious experiences.
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Billy Graham Library
The Billy Graham Library is a public museum and ministry center in Charlotte dedicated to the life, legacy, and evangelistic work of Christian preacher Billy Graham.
- 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: Billy Graham Crusades Target entity description: Billy Graham Crusades were large-scale evangelical Christian revival meetings led by American preacher Billy Graham, drawing massive crowds across stadiums and arenas worldwide during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is a Christian ministry organization dedicated to worldwide evangelism, media outreach, and spiritual counseling, established to support and extend the preaching mission of evangelist Billy Graham.
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B.
Billy Graham Center
The Billy Graham Center is an evangelical Christian museum, archive, and ministry training facility associated with Wheaton College, dedicated to the life and work of evangelist Billy Graham and the history of evangelism.
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C.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham was a prominent American Christian evangelist whose large-scale crusades, media presence, and counsel to U.S. presidents made him one of the most influential religious figures of the 20th century.
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D.
Azusa Street Revival
The Azusa Street Revival was an early 20th-century Christian revival meeting in Los Angeles that sparked the global Pentecostal movement through its emphasis on spiritual gifts, interracial worship, and ecstatic religious experiences.
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E.
Billy Graham Library
The Billy Graham Library is a public museum and ministry center in Charlotte dedicated to the life, legacy, and evangelistic work of Christian preacher Billy Graham.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian evangelistic campaign
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evangelical revival meeting series ⓘ |
| associatedOrganization | Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| denominationalOrientation | Evangelical Protestantism ⓘ |
| endPeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| estimatedAudienceSize | millions of attendees ⓘ |
| estimatedCumulativeAttendance | over 200 million people ⓘ |
| fundingModel | donations ⓘ |
| geographicScope |
Africa
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Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| goal |
church renewal
ⓘ
evangelism ⓘ mass conversion ⓘ |
| keyActivity |
altar call
ⓘ
choir performances ⓘ congregational singing ⓘ mass evangelism ⓘ preaching ⓘ |
| languageOfPreaching | English ⓘ |
| ledBy | Billy Graham ⓘ |
| legacy |
influence on modern mass evangelism
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model for later evangelistic campaigns ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage |
newspaper coverage
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radio broadcasts ⓘ television broadcasts ⓘ |
| mostActivePeriod |
1950s
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1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ |
| musicDirector | Cliff Barrows ⓘ |
| notableCrusade |
Billy Graham Crusades
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
1949 Los Angeles Crusade
1954 London Harringay Arena Crusade ⓘ 1957 New York City Madison Square Garden Crusade ⓘ Billy Graham Crusades self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
1973 Seoul Yoido Crusade
1989 Moscow Crusade ⓘ |
| organizationalModel | cooperation with local churches ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| soloist | George Beverly Shea ⓘ |
| startPeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| typicalMessageTheme |
Bible authority
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personal conversion ⓘ salvation through Jesus Christ ⓘ |
| typicalVenue |
arena
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open-air ground ⓘ stadium ⓘ |
| useOfInterpreters | yes ⓘ |
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Subject: Billy Graham Crusades Description of subject: Billy Graham Crusades were large-scale evangelical Christian revival meetings led by American preacher Billy Graham, drawing massive crowds across stadiums and arenas worldwide during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (7)
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Billy Graham's Los Angeles crusade of 1949
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Billy Graham's London crusades
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Billy Graham's crusades in the Soviet Union
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1949 Los Angeles Crusade
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1973 Seoul Yoido Crusade