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).

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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

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: 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.

Raleigh higherEducationInstitution Shaw University
Ella Baker educatedAt Shaw University
Shaw University hasCampusLandmark Shaw University self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Shaw University Center for Early Childhood Education, Development and Research
Dorothy Cotton educatedAt Shaw University
James E. Shepard educatedAt Shaw University
Elbert Frank Cox employer Shaw University
Henry Martin Tupper founded Shaw University
Raleigh Institute originalNameOf Shaw University
Raleigh Institute laterBecame Shaw University
Raleigh Institute hasSuccessor Shaw University
Elijah Shaw hasAssociatedInstitution Shaw University
Bears represents Shaw University
subject surface form: Shaw Bears
Bears university Shaw University
subject surface form: Shaw Bears
Divinity School partOf Shaw University
Divinity School locatedInOrganization Shaw University
Divinity School hasParentInstitution Shaw University
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities parentOrganization Shaw University
this entity surface form: Shaw University College of Arts and Sciences (historical predecessor)
Willie E. Gary educatedAt Shaw University
Greenleaf Building affiliatedWith Shaw University
Greenleaf Building location Shaw University
this entity surface form: Shaw University campus
School of Business and Professional Studies governedBy Shaw University
this entity surface form: Shaw University administration
Estey Hall locatedIn Shaw University
Estey Hall partOf Shaw University
this entity surface form: Shaw University campus
Estey Hall affiliation Shaw University
Estey Hall operator Shaw University
Estey Hall ownedBy Shaw University
Estey Hall hasCategory Shaw University
School of Education partOf Shaw University
School of Education affiliatedWith Shaw University
School of Education parentInstitution Shaw University