Samuel DeWitt Proctor
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Samuel DeWitt Proctor was an influential American Baptist minister, educator, and civil rights leader who served as a prominent pastor and public intellectual in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel DeWitt Proctor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2699806 — 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.
Target entity: Samuel DeWitt Proctor Context triple: [Abyssinian Baptist Church, notableLeader, Samuel DeWitt Proctor]
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Lyman Cornelius Smith
Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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James Edward Keeler
James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer noted for his pioneering spectroscopic studies of Saturn’s rings and for his influential role in late 19th-century astrophysical research.
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George Willis Ritchey
George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
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William Henry Pickering
William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
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Dr. Emlen Physick Jr.
Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. was a 19th-century physician and member of a prominent Philadelphia family who became known as the original owner and resident of the now-historic Victorian Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Samuel DeWitt Proctor Target entity description: Samuel DeWitt Proctor was an influential American Baptist minister, educator, and civil rights leader who served as a prominent pastor and public intellectual in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Lyman Cornelius Smith
Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
James Edward Keeler
James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer noted for his pioneering spectroscopic studies of Saturn’s rings and for his influential role in late 19th-century astrophysical research.
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C.
George Willis Ritchey
George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
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D.
William Henry Pickering
William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
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E.
Dr. Emlen Physick Jr.
Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. was a 19th-century physician and member of a prominent Philadelphia family who became known as the original owner and resident of the now-historic Victorian Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Baptist minister
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civil rights leader ⓘ educator ⓘ human ⓘ public intellectual ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Divinity
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Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ |
| advisorTo | Peace Corps ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-07-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1997-05-22 ⓘ |
| denomination |
National Baptist Convention USA Inc.
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surface form:
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
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| educatedAt |
Crozer Theological Seminary
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Virginia Union University ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
North Carolina A&T State University
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Rutgers University ⓘ Virginia Union University ⓘ |
| familyName | Proctor ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| honoredBy |
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
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Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology ⓘ
surface form:
Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University
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| knownFor |
leadership in historically Black colleges and universities
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mentoring African American clergy and leaders ⓘ progressive Christian theology ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | National Council of Churches ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableWork |
How Shall They Hear?
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The Substance of Things Hoped For ⓘ We Have This Ministry ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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minister ⓘ professor ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Norfolk, Virginia
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surface form:
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
North Carolina
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surface form:
North Carolina, United States
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| positionHeld |
Martin Luther King Jr. Chair in Social Ethics at Rutgers University
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associate director of the Peace Corps ⓘ pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church ⓘ president of North Carolina A&T State University ⓘ president of Virginia Union University ⓘ special adviser to the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| spouse | Bessie Proctor ⓘ |
| workedIn | higher education administration ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Samuel DeWitt Proctor Description of subject: Samuel DeWitt Proctor was an influential American Baptist minister, educator, and civil rights leader who served as a prominent pastor and public intellectual in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.