Five Percenters
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The Five Percenters, or Five-Percent Nation, is a cultural and religious movement that emerged from the Nation of Islam in the 1960s and teaches that Black people are the original people and that five percent of the population are enlightened to this truth and tasked with educating others.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Five Percenters canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3129742 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Five Percenters Context triple: [Five-Percent Nation, alsoKnownAs, Five Percenters]
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Barksdale Organization
The Barksdale Organization is a powerful fictional Baltimore drug trafficking syndicate featured in the television series "The Wire."
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The Saviors
The Saviors are a ruthless, authoritarian survivor group led by Negan in *The Walking Dead* universe, known for extortion, brutality, and violent control over other communities.
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C.
Adamites
The Adamites were a radical medieval Christian sect associated with the Hussite movement, known for their rejection of conventional morality, communal nudity, and belief in a return to the innocence of Adam and Eve.
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D.
Mayans M.C.
Mayans M.C. is an American crime drama television series that follows a Latino outlaw motorcycle club on the California–Mexico border in the same universe as Sons of Anarchy.
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E.
The Purifiers
The Purifiers is a 2004 British martial-arts action film set in a dystopian future where rival gangs battle for control of a city.
- 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: Five Percenters Target entity description: The Five Percenters, or Five-Percent Nation, is a cultural and religious movement that emerged from the Nation of Islam in the 1960s and teaches that Black people are the original people and that five percent of the population are enlightened to this truth and tasked with educating others.
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A.
Barksdale Organization
The Barksdale Organization is a powerful fictional Baltimore drug trafficking syndicate featured in the television series "The Wire."
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B.
The Saviors
The Saviors are a ruthless, authoritarian survivor group led by Negan in *The Walking Dead* universe, known for extortion, brutality, and violent control over other communities.
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C.
Adamites
The Adamites were a radical medieval Christian sect associated with the Hussite movement, known for their rejection of conventional morality, communal nudity, and belief in a return to the innocence of Adam and Eve.
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D.
Mayans M.C.
Mayans M.C. is an American crime drama television series that follows a Latino outlaw motorcycle club on the California–Mexico border in the same universe as Sons of Anarchy.
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E.
The Purifiers
The Purifiers is a 2004 British martial-arts action film set in a dystopian future where rival gangs battle for control of a city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Black nationalist movement
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Islamic-influenced movement ⓘ cultural movement ⓘ religious movement ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Allah the Father
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Clarence Edward Smith ⓘ Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) ⓘ
surface form:
Five Percent Nation
NGE ⓘ Nation of Gods and Earths ⓘ |
| coreBelief |
10 percent of people know the truth but exploit the 85 percent
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85 percent of people are ignorant of the truth ⓘ Black men are Gods ⓘ Black people are the original people of the planet Earth ⓘ Black women are Earths ⓘ five percent of the population are enlightened to the truth and tasked with educating others ⓘ the population is divided into 85 percent, 10 percent, and 5 percent ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy | Clarence 13X ⓘ |
| hasPractice |
building (philosophical discussion)
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cipher (group discussion circle) ⓘ |
| ideology |
Black empowerment
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anti-oppression ⓘ self-knowledge ⓘ |
| inception | 1964 ⓘ |
| influenced |
1990s New York rap lyrics
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East Coast hip hop culture ⓘ |
| languageFeature | distinctive slang and coded language ⓘ |
| notableFollower |
Big Daddy Kane
ⓘ
Brand Nubian ⓘ Nas ⓘ Rakim ⓘ Wu-Tang Clan ⓘ
surface form:
Wu-Tang Clan members
|
| organizationalStructure | loosely organized decentralized network ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin |
Harlem
ⓘ
surface form:
Harlem, New York City
|
| primaryActivity |
street teaching
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youth education ⓘ |
| primaryDemographic | African American urban communities ⓘ |
| rejectsConcept |
traditional Islamic orthodoxy
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worship of an external God ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths)
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surface form:
influenced by Nation of Islam theology
|
| separatedFrom | Nation of Islam ⓘ |
| symbol | Seven-point star and crescent with number 7 ⓘ |
| teachesConcept |
each person can become God through knowledge, wisdom, and understanding
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knowledge of self as path to divinity ⓘ |
| usesText |
120 Lessons
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Supreme Alphabet ⓘ Supreme Mathematics ⓘ |
| viewOnScripture | Qur'an and Bible contain truth but are to be interpreted through Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Five Percenters Description of subject: The Five Percenters, or Five-Percent Nation, is a cultural and religious movement that emerged from the Nation of Islam in the 1960s and teaches that Black people are the original people and that five percent of the population are enlightened to this truth and tasked with educating others.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Five-Percent Nation