Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
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Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Selma, Alabama, best known as the starting point and organizing hub of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church canonical | 5 |
| Brown Chapel AME Church | 2 |
| Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T226075 — 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.
Target entity: Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church Context triple: [Selma to Montgomery marches, notableLocation, Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church]
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Bigelow Chapel
Bigelow Chapel is a historic Gothic Revival funerary chapel located within Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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16th Street Baptist Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church is a historic African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, best known as the site of a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four Black girls and became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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C.
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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D.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel is a grand Gothic-style chapel at the University of Chicago, renowned for its monumental architecture, carillon, and role as a central venue for ceremonies and cultural events.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church Target entity description: Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Selma, Alabama, best known as the starting point and organizing hub of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches.
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A.
Bigelow Chapel
Bigelow Chapel is a historic Gothic Revival funerary chapel located within Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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B.
16th Street Baptist Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church is a historic African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, best known as the site of a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four Black girls and became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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C.
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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D.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel is a grand Gothic-style chapel at the University of Chicago, renowned for its monumental architecture, carillon, and role as a central venue for ceremonies and cultural events.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African Methodist Episcopal church
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church ⓘ civil rights movement site ⓘ historic place ⓘ |
| affiliation | African Methodist Episcopal Church denomination ⓘ |
| architecturalType | church building ⓘ |
| associatedWithCause | voting rights for African Americans ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
1965 Selma voting rights campaign
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Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965) ⓘ
surface form:
Bloody Sunday
Selma to Montgomery marches ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson | civil rights activists in Selma ⓘ |
| category |
African-American history in Alabama
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Churches in Selma, Alabama ⓘ Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama ⓘ National Historic Landmarks in Alabama ⓘ |
| city | Selma ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| culturalSignificance | symbol of the struggle for voting rights in the United States ⓘ |
| denomination | African Methodist Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| eraOfProminence | 1960s ⓘ |
| hasCommunityRole |
community organizing center
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place of worship ⓘ |
| hasCongregation | African Methodist Episcopal congregation ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
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surface form:
U.S. National Historic Landmark
property listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| knownFor |
organizing hub of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches
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role in the American civil rights movement ⓘ starting point of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dallas County, Alabama
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Selma, Alabama ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| name | Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church self-link ⓘ |
| NRHPListingCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| NRHPType | building ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
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Methodism ⓘ |
| significance |
African American history
ⓘ
civil rights history ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| usedAs |
meeting place for civil rights activists
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staging area for protest marches ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church Description of subject: Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Selma, Alabama, best known as the starting point and organizing hub of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches.
Referenced by (9)
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