Shaw University
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Shaw University is a historically Black university in Raleigh, North Carolina, known as a significant center of the Civil Rights Movement and the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
All labels observed (5)
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historically Black university
ⓘ
liberal arts college ⓘ private university ⓘ |
| accreditation | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges ⓘ |
| athleticsNickname | Bears ⓘ |
| campusSetting | urban ⓘ |
| city | Raleigh ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy | Henry Martin Tupper ⓘ |
| foundingDate | December 1, 1865 ⓘ |
| foundingYear | 1865 ⓘ |
| hasAcademicProgram |
graduate programs
ⓘ
undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| hasCampusLandmark |
Estey Hall
ⓘ
Greenleaf Building ⓘ Shaw University self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Shaw University Center for Early Childhood Education, Development and Research
|
| hasNotableAlumni |
Angelo Taylor
ⓘ
Ella Baker ⓘ Henry Beard Delany ⓘ James E. Cheek ⓘ Willie E. Gary ⓘ |
| hasSchool |
Divinity School
ⓘ
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities ⓘ School of Business and Professional Studies ⓘ School of Education ⓘ |
| hostedEvent | founding conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ |
| hostedEventYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| isHBCU | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the oldest historically Black universities in the Southern United States
ⓘ
birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ role in the American Civil Rights Movement ⓘ training African American teachers and ministers after the Civil War ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
North Carolina ⓘ Raleigh ⓘ
surface form:
Raleigh, North Carolina
Wake County, North Carolina ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
ⓘ
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ⓘ United Negro College Fund ⓘ |
| motto | Strides to Excellence: Only the Best ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Elijah Shaw ⓘ |
| originalName | Raleigh Institute ⓘ |
| region |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern United States
|
| religiousAffiliation |
Baptists
ⓘ
surface form:
Baptist
National Baptist Convention USA Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
|
| schoolColors |
burgundy
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina ⓘ |
| type | private, coeducational ⓘ |
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: Shaw University Description of subject: Shaw University is a historically Black university in Raleigh, North Carolina, known as a significant center of the Civil Rights Movement and the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shaw University Center for Early Childhood Education, Development and Research
subject surface form:
Shaw Bears
subject surface form:
Shaw Bears
this entity surface form:
Shaw University College of Arts and Sciences (historical predecessor)
this entity surface form:
Shaw University campus
this entity surface form:
Shaw University administration
this entity surface form:
Shaw University campus