First Baptist Church (Selma, Alabama)
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First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, is a historic African American church that played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly in organizing voting rights marches and activism in the 1960s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Baptist Church (Selma, Alabama) canonical | 1 |
| First Baptist Church, Selma | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T426955 — 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: First Baptist Church (Selma, Alabama) Context triple: [Selma, Alabama, hasReligiousSite, First Baptist Church (Selma, Alabama)]
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Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a historic Montgomery, Alabama church best known as the pastoral home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a key organizing center of the civil rights movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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B.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Selma, Alabama)
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, is a historic Episcopal parish church noted for its Gothic Revival architecture and its role in the city’s 19th-century religious and civic life.
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16th Street Baptist Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church is a historic African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, best known as the site of a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four Black girls and became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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D.
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Selma, Alabama, best known as the starting point and organizing hub of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches.
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E.
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African-American church in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, known as one of the area’s oldest and most significant religious and community institutions.
- 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: First Baptist Church (Selma, Alabama) Target entity description: First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, is a historic African American church that played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly in organizing voting rights marches and activism in the 1960s.
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A.
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a historic Montgomery, Alabama church best known as the pastoral home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a key organizing center of the civil rights movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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B.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Selma, Alabama)
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, is a historic Episcopal parish church noted for its Gothic Revival architecture and its role in the city’s 19th-century religious and civic life.
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C.
16th Street Baptist Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church is a historic African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, best known as the site of a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four Black girls and became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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D.
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Selma, Alabama, best known as the starting point and organizing hub of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches.
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E.
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African-American church in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, known as one of the area’s oldest and most significant religious and community institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African-American church
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Baptist church ⓘ church ⓘ civil rights movement site ⓘ historic place ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
1960s Civil Rights Movement
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Selma to Montgomery marches ⓘ
surface form:
Selma voting rights campaign
voting rights marches from Selma ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Dallas County, Alabama ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
African American community organizing
ⓘ
nonviolent protest ⓘ racial equality ⓘ voting rights ⓘ |
| city | Selma ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalContext | Black church tradition in the United States ⓘ |
| denomination | Baptist ⓘ |
| heritage | African American religious heritage ⓘ |
| location | Selma, Alabama ⓘ |
| movement |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
Civil Rights Movement
|
| notableFor |
leadership in African American civic life in Selma
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role in organizing Selma voting rights activities ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| primaryCongregation |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African Americans
|
| region |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
|
| religiousAffiliation | Christianity ⓘ |
| roleInHistory |
center for voting rights activism in the 1960s
ⓘ
central role in the Civil Rights Movement ⓘ meeting place for civil rights leaders ⓘ organizing site for voting rights marches ⓘ |
| significance |
important organizing hub for civil rights activism
ⓘ
symbol of African American struggle for voting rights ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| usedFor |
community organizing
ⓘ
mass meetings during the Civil Rights Movement ⓘ planning civil rights demonstrations ⓘ religious 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: First Baptist Church (Selma, Alabama) Description of subject: First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, is a historic African American church that played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly in organizing voting rights marches and activism in the 1960s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
First Baptist Church, Selma