Mason Temple
E406877
Mason Temple is a historic Church of God in Christ sanctuary in Memphis, Tennessee, best known as the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” during the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mason Temple canonical | 3 |
| Mason Temple named in his honor | 1 |
| Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ | 1 |
| Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4023589 — 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: Mason Temple Context triple: [Memphis sanitation workers' strike, significantPlace, Mason Temple]
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A.
Masonic Temple (Chicago)
Masonic Temple (Chicago) was a pioneering late-19th-century Chicago skyscraper and Masonic meeting hall designed by the influential architectural firm Burnham and Root.
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B.
Knowles Memorial Chapel
Knowles Memorial Chapel is a historic, Mediterranean Revival-style chapel that serves as a central spiritual and architectural landmark on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
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C.
Moody Church
Moody Church is a historic evangelical Christian megachurch in Chicago known for its influential preaching, large congregation, and prominent role in American Protestantism.
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D.
Matthias Church
Matthias Church is a historic Roman Catholic church and prominent Gothic landmark located in Budapest's Castle District.
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E.
Colt Memorial Chapel
Colt Memorial Chapel is a historic collegiate chapel located on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, known for its distinctive architecture and role in the college’s religious and ceremonial life.
- 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: Mason Temple Target entity description: Mason Temple is a historic Church of God in Christ sanctuary in Memphis, Tennessee, best known as the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” during the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike.
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A.
Masonic Temple (Chicago)
Masonic Temple (Chicago) was a pioneering late-19th-century Chicago skyscraper and Masonic meeting hall designed by the influential architectural firm Burnham and Root.
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B.
Knowles Memorial Chapel
Knowles Memorial Chapel is a historic, Mediterranean Revival-style chapel that serves as a central spiritual and architectural landmark on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
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C.
Moody Church
Moody Church is a historic evangelical Christian megachurch in Chicago known for its influential preaching, large congregation, and prominent role in American Protestantism.
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D.
Matthias Church
Matthias Church is a historic Roman Catholic church and prominent Gothic landmark located in Budapest's Castle District.
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E.
Colt Memorial Chapel
Colt Memorial Chapel is a historic collegiate chapel located on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, known for its distinctive architecture and role in the college’s religious and ceremonial life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Church of God in Christ church
ⓘ
church building ⓘ historic site ⓘ religious sanctuary ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Church of God in Christ
ⓘ
surface form:
Church of God in Christ (COGIC)
|
| architecturalType | church ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ Memphis sanitation workers' strike ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis sanitation workers’ strike
|
| category |
African-American churches
ⓘ
Church of God in Christ churches in the United States ⓘ Churches in Memphis, Tennessee ⓘ Civil rights movement sites ⓘ |
| city | Memphis ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfEvent | 1968-04-03 ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of God in Christ ⓘ |
| event |
Memphis sanitation workers' strike
ⓘ
surface form:
1968 sanitation workers’ strike mass meeting
|
| function | headquarters sanctuary for Church of God in Christ ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
pilgrimage site for civil rights history
ⓘ
symbol of the civil rights struggle in Memphis ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic church ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | recognized as a historic landmark in Memphis ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis, Tennessee
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| namedAfter | Charles Harrison Mason ⓘ |
| notableFor |
location of “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech
ⓘ
site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| speechDelivered | “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” ⓘ |
| state | Tennessee ⓘ |
| tourism | visited by civil rights tourists ⓘ |
| use |
civil rights gatherings
ⓘ
religious meetings ⓘ worship services ⓘ |
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: Mason Temple Description of subject: Mason Temple is a historic Church of God in Christ sanctuary in Memphis, Tennessee, best known as the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” during the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
this entity surface form:
Mason Temple named in his honor
subject surface form:
I've Been to the Mountaintop
subject surface form:
I've Been to the Mountaintop
this entity surface form:
Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ