Tarana Burke

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Tarana Burke is an American civil rights activist best known for originating the "Me Too" movement to support survivors of sexual violence.

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Tarana Burke canonical 3

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American activist
civil rights activist
feminist
human
activeSince 1990s
advocatesFor Black women and girls
survivors of sexual assault
survivors of sexual harassment
awardReceived Harvard Kennedy School Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award
Ridenhour Prize for Courage
SheKnows Media Voice of the Year
Time 100 Most Influential People
surface form: Time 100 most influential people
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Alabama State University
Auburn University at Montgomery
ethnicGroup Black Americans
surface form: African American
familyName Burke
fieldOfWork civil rights
racial justice
sexual violence prevention
women's rights
focusesOn healing and empowerment for survivors of sexual violence
founded Just Be Inc.
MeToo movement
surface form: Me Too movement
foundedInYear 2006 (Me Too movement)
givenName Tarana
hasRole civil rights leader
nonprofit executive
public speaker
influenced MeToo movement
surface form: global #MeToo movement
knownFor coining the phrase "Me Too" in 2006
supporting survivors of sexual assault and harassment
languageSpoken English
movement MeToo movement
surface form: Me Too movement
name Tarana Burke self-link
notableFor advocacy for survivors of sexual violence
founding the Me Too movement
occupation activist
community organizer
placeOfBirth New York City
The Bronx
residence New York City
sexOrGender female
stateOfBirth New York
subjectOf Time Person of the Year
surface form: Time magazine Person of the Year 2017 (as part of "The Silence Breakers")
workLocation New York City

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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.
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Subject: Tarana Burke
Description of subject: Tarana Burke is an American civil rights activist best known for originating the "Me Too" movement to support survivors of sexual violence.

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

MeToo movement foundedBy Tarana Burke
Alabama State University hasAlumni Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke name Tarana Burke self-link