Quaker meeting for worship for business
E331907
Quaker practice
consensus-based decision-making gathering
meeting for worship
religious decision-making process
A Quaker meeting for worship for business is a spiritually grounded decision-making gathering in which Friends seek unity and divine guidance in conducting the affairs of their faith community.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quaker business method | 3 |
| Quaker meeting for worship for business canonical | 1 |
| Quaker process | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3155273 — 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: Quaker meeting for worship for business Context triple: [Inner Light, usedInPractice, Quaker meeting for worship for business]
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A.
Quaker meetings in Britain
Quaker meetings in Britain are local worshipping and decision-making communities of the Religious Society of Friends that practice silent worship, collective discernment, and a commitment to peace and social justice.
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B.
Quaker discipline and advices
Quaker discipline and advices are the traditional guidelines and spiritual counsel that shape the faith, practice, and community life of Friends, particularly among Conservative Quakers.
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C.
Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends
Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends are regional or national governing bodies of Quaker communities that gather annually to conduct business, worship, and discernment for their member meetings.
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D.
Quaker Consortium
The Quaker Consortium is an academic partnership among several historically Quaker-founded colleges and universities that allows cross-registration and shared resources among its member institutions.
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E.
The Quaker
The Quaker is the traditional, colonial-era–styled mascot representing the University of Pennsylvania and its athletic teams.
- 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: Quaker meeting for worship for business Target entity description: A Quaker meeting for worship for business is a spiritually grounded decision-making gathering in which Friends seek unity and divine guidance in conducting the affairs of their faith community.
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A.
Quaker meetings in Britain
Quaker meetings in Britain are local worshipping and decision-making communities of the Religious Society of Friends that practice silent worship, collective discernment, and a commitment to peace and social justice.
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B.
Quaker discipline and advices
Quaker discipline and advices are the traditional guidelines and spiritual counsel that shape the faith, practice, and community life of Friends, particularly among Conservative Quakers.
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C.
Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends
Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends are regional or national governing bodies of Quaker communities that gather annually to conduct business, worship, and discernment for their member meetings.
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D.
Quaker Consortium
The Quaker Consortium is an academic partnership among several historically Quaker-founded colleges and universities that allows cross-registration and shared resources among its member institutions.
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E.
The Quaker
The Quaker is the traditional, colonial-era–styled mascot representing the University of Pennsylvania and its athletic teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Quaker practice
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consensus-based decision-making gathering ⓘ meeting for worship ⓘ religious decision-making process ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
meeting for business
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meeting for church affairs ⓘ meeting for worship for business ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | parliamentary procedure based on majority vote ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Quaker discipline and advices
ⓘ
surface form:
Quaker books of discipline
Quaker faith and practice manuals ⓘ |
| emergedFrom | early Quaker practice of meetings for church affairs ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
corporate rather than individual discernment
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obedience to perceived divine will over individual preference ⓘ |
| governs |
administrative affairs of a Quaker meeting
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appointments to committees and roles ⓘ financial and property matters of the meeting ⓘ public witness and social concerns of the meeting ⓘ spiritual care of the community ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
corporate discernment
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emphasizes community responsibility ⓘ emphasizes continuing revelation ⓘ emphasizes equality of participants ⓘ emphasizes integrity in decision-making ⓘ grounded in prayerful listening ⓘ non-hierarchical decision-making ⓘ open to all members and attenders of the meeting ⓘ rooted in silent worship ⓘ seeks unity rather than majority vote ⓘ spiritually grounded ⓘ |
| hasParticipantRole |
attenders of the meeting
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clerk ⓘ members of the meeting ⓘ recording clerk ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to conduct the affairs of a Quaker faith community
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to discern the sense of the meeting ⓘ to seek divine guidance in corporate decision-making ⓘ |
| isBasedOn |
Quaker discipline and advices
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surface form:
Quaker testimonies
Quaker understanding of the Inner Light ⓘ belief in direct guidance from God ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Religious Society of Friends ⓘ |
| resultsIn |
corporate decisions of the Quaker meeting
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minutes that record decisions and sense of the meeting ⓘ |
| typicallyHeld |
on a regular schedule
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under the care of a monthly meeting ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
drafting and revising minutes to capture the sense of the meeting
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listening deeply to spoken ministry ⓘ periods of silent worship during deliberation ⓘ seeking unity rather than voting ⓘ testing concerns in the community ⓘ |
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: Quaker meeting for worship for business Description of subject: A Quaker meeting for worship for business is a spiritually grounded decision-making gathering in which Friends seek unity and divine guidance in conducting the affairs of their faith community.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Quaker business method
Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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follows
→
Quaker meeting for worship for business
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this entity surface form:
Quaker business method
Peace and Social Concerns Committee
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decisionMakingProcess
→
Quaker meeting for worship for business
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this entity surface form:
Quaker process
this entity surface form:
Quaker business method