Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
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The Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) is a major Pentecostal Christian denomination known for its emphasis on holiness, evangelism, and global missionary work, with its central administration based in Cleveland, Tennessee.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) canonical | 2 |
| Church of God Evangel | 1 |
| Church of God of Prophecy | 1 |
| International Offices of the Church of God | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2161320 — 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: Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Context triple: [Cleveland, Tennessee, religiousHeadquartersOf, Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)]
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A.
Church of God in Christ
The Church of God in Christ is a historically Black Pentecostal Christian denomination in the United States known for its Holiness teachings, charismatic worship, and significant influence on American religious and musical culture.
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B.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)
The Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) is a Wesleyan-Holiness Protestant Christian denomination known for its emphasis on sanctification, unity of believers, and non-creedal, Bible-centered faith.
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C.
Friends Church
Friends Church is a Christian denomination rooted in the Quaker tradition, emphasizing inner spiritual experience, simplicity, and social justice.
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D.
Church of the Nazarene (USA)
The Church of the Nazarene (USA) is a Wesleyan-Holiness Protestant denomination known for its emphasis on sanctification, evangelical outreach, and global missionary work.
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E.
Universalist Church of America
The Universalist Church of America was a historic liberal Christian denomination in the United States that emphasized universal salvation and later merged into what became the Unitarian Universalist movement.
- 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: Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Target entity description: The Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) is a major Pentecostal Christian denomination known for its emphasis on holiness, evangelism, and global missionary work, with its central administration based in Cleveland, Tennessee.
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A.
Church of God in Christ
The Church of God in Christ is a historically Black Pentecostal Christian denomination in the United States known for its Holiness teachings, charismatic worship, and significant influence on American religious and musical culture.
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B.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)
The Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) is a Wesleyan-Holiness Protestant Christian denomination known for its emphasis on sanctification, unity of believers, and non-creedal, Bible-centered faith.
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C.
Friends Church
Friends Church is a Christian denomination rooted in the Quaker tradition, emphasizing inner spiritual experience, simplicity, and social justice.
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D.
Church of the Nazarene (USA)
The Church of the Nazarene (USA) is a Wesleyan-Holiness Protestant denomination known for its emphasis on sanctification, evangelical outreach, and global missionary work.
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E.
Universalist Church of America
The Universalist Church of America was a historic liberal Christian denomination in the United States that emphasized universal salvation and later merged into what became the Unitarian Universalist movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian denomination
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Holiness Pentecostal church ⓘ Pentecostal denomination ⓘ |
| classification | classical Pentecostal denomination ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dateOfNameChange | 1907 ⓘ |
| denominationalFamily | Holiness-Pentecostal tradition ⓘ |
| doctrine |
Trinitarianism
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baptism in the Holy Spirit ⓘ divine healing ⓘ premillennialism ⓘ sanctification as a second definite work of grace ⓘ speaking in tongues as initial evidence of Spirit baptism ⓘ |
| emphasis |
evangelism
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global missionary work ⓘ holiness ⓘ |
| founder |
R. G. Spurling Jr.
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Richard G. Spurling NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Spurling Sr. ⓘ |
| foundingLocation |
Monroe County, Tennessee
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governanceForm |
congregational participation in decision-making
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episcopal polity ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Lee University
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Pentecostal Theological Seminary ⓘ |
| hasGlobalPresence | more than 180 countries and territories ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersBuilding |
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
International Offices of the Church of God
|
| hasLeaderTitle | General Overseer ⓘ |
| hasLegislativeBody | International General Assembly ⓘ |
| hasOfficialPublication |
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Church of God Evangel
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| headquartersLocation | Cleveland, Tennessee ⓘ |
| inception | 1886 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Tennessee ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National Association of Evangelicals
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Pentecostal World Fellowship ⓘ |
| originalName | Christian Union ⓘ |
| practices |
Lord’s Supper
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evangelistic revivals ⓘ foot washing ⓘ tithing ⓘ water baptism by immersion ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousOrientation | Pentecostalism ⓘ |
| scripture | Bible ⓘ |
| separatedFrom |
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Church of God of Prophecy
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| theologicalOrientation | Holiness movement ⓘ |
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: Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Description of subject: The Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) is a major Pentecostal Christian denomination known for its emphasis on holiness, evangelism, and global missionary work, with its central administration based in Cleveland, Tennessee.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
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hasHeadquartersBuilding
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Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
International Offices of the Church of God
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
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hasOfficialPublication
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Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Church of God Evangel
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
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separatedFrom
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Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Church of God of Prophecy