I. W. Abel

E823953

American human labor leader trade unionist

I. W. Abel was an American labor leader who served as president of the United Steelworkers of America and was influential in mid-20th-century labor and civil rights issues.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
I. W. Abel canonical	1

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American ⓘ human ⓘ labor leader ⓘ trade unionist ⓘ
affiliation	AFL–CIO NERFINISHED ⓘ
areaOfInfluence	industrial relations in the United States ⓘ steel industry ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
familyName	Abel NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	civil rights ⓘ collective bargaining ⓘ labor movement ⓘ
givenName	Iorwith NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	advocating improved wages and benefits for steelworkers ⓘ negotiating contracts between steelworkers and steel companies ⓘ promoting cooperation between labor and management ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	United Steelworkers of America NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	American civil rights movement ⓘ surface form: civil rights movement labor movement ⓘ
name	I. W. Abel NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	influence on mid-20th-century American labor issues ⓘ leadership of the United Steelworkers of America ⓘ support for civil rights initiatives ⓘ
occupation	labor leader ⓘ trade unionist ⓘ
politicalAlignment	pro-labor ⓘ
positionHeld	president of the United Steelworkers of America ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States

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: I. W. Abel
Description of subject: I. W. Abel was an American labor leader who served as president of the United Steelworkers of America and was influential in mid-20th-century labor and civil rights issues.

Referenced by (1)

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

National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders → member → I. W. Abel ⓘ