American Federation of Teachers

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labor union professional association trade union

The American Federation of Teachers is a major U.S. labor union representing educators and other school-related professionals, advocating for workers’ rights, public education, and social justice.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
American Federation of Teachers canonical	12
American Federation of Teachers members	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	labor union ⓘ professional association ⓘ trade union ⓘ
affiliation	AFL–CIO ⓘ Education International ⓘ Public Services International ⓘ
coreMission	advocate for high-quality public education ⓘ defend workers’ rights ⓘ promote social and economic justice ⓘ represent educators and school employees in collective bargaining ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
fieldOfWork	collective bargaining ⓘ education ⓘ labor rights ⓘ political advocacy ⓘ public education advocacy ⓘ social justice ⓘ
foundedBy	Charles Stillman ⓘ John Dewey ⓘ Margaret Haley ⓘ
hasMember	healthcare professionals ⓘ higher education faculty ⓘ paraprofessionals ⓘ public employees ⓘ school-related personnel ⓘ teachers ⓘ
hasPart	local unions ⓘ state federations ⓘ
hasPublication	AFT Voices ⓘ American Educator ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
inception	1916 ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
legalForm	labor organization ⓘ
motto	A Union of Professionals ⓘ
notableCampaign	advocacy for increased school funding ⓘ opposition to excessive standardized testing ⓘ support for collective bargaining rights for teachers ⓘ support for smaller class sizes ⓘ
operatesIn	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
politicalOrientation	center-left ⓘ
scope	national ⓘ
sector	education sector ⓘ public sector ⓘ
shortName	AFT ⓘ
supportsPolicy	civil rights protections in education ⓘ collective bargaining rights for public employees ⓘ expanded access to healthcare ⓘ public school funding increases ⓘ
website	https://www.aft.org ⓘ

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: American Federation of Teachers
Description of subject: The American Federation of Teachers is a major U.S. labor union representing educators and other school-related professionals, advocating for workers’ rights, public education, and social justice.

Referenced by (13)

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

American Federation of Labor → notableAffiliatedUnion → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

AFL → affiliatedOrganization → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

subject surface form: American Federation of Labor

American labor movement → hasOrganization → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

AFT → fullName → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

subject surface form: American Federation of Teachers

A Union of Professionals → isMottoOf → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

A Union of Professionals → associatedWith → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

American Educator → publisher → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

American Educator → publishedBy → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

American Educator → associatedWith → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Federation of Teachers members

AFT Voices → publisher → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

AFT Voices → affiliatedWith → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

Charles Stillman → affiliation → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ

Margaret Haley → affiliation → American Federation of Teachers ⓘ