Rastafari movement
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The Rastafari movement is a spiritual and cultural movement that emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s, venerating Haile Selassie I, emphasizing African identity and resistance to oppression, and influencing global music and culture, especially through reggae.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rastafari movement canonical | 61 |
| Rastafari | 46 |
| Rastafarianism | 8 |
| Rastafarians | 4 |
| Caribbean Rastafari communities | 1 |
| Jamaican Rastafari movement | 1 |
| Rastafarian communities worldwide | 1 |
| global Rastafari movement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T76286 — 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: Rastafari movement Context triple: [Caribbean, hasReligion, Rastafari movement]
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a prominent American civil rights organization, led in its early years by Martin Luther King Jr., that coordinated nonviolent protests and campaigns against racial segregation and discrimination.
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Native American Church
The Native American Church is a syncretic religious movement among various Indigenous peoples of North America that combines traditional Native spiritual practices with elements of Christianity, often centered around the ceremonial use of peyote.
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Quakers
The Quakers are the athletic teams representing the University of Pennsylvania in collegiate sports.
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Religious Society of Friends
The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, is a Christian movement founded in 17th-century England that emphasizes inner spiritual experience, pacifism, and simple living.
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Puritanism
Puritanism was a strict, reform-minded Protestant movement that emphasized moral rigor, biblical authority, and communal discipline, profoundly shaping early New England society and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Rastafari movement Target entity description: The Rastafari movement is a spiritual and cultural movement that emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s, venerating Haile Selassie I, emphasizing African identity and resistance to oppression, and influencing global music and culture, especially through reggae.
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A.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a prominent American civil rights organization, led in its early years by Martin Luther King Jr., that coordinated nonviolent protests and campaigns against racial segregation and discrimination.
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B.
Native American Church
The Native American Church is a syncretic religious movement among various Indigenous peoples of North America that combines traditional Native spiritual practices with elements of Christianity, often centered around the ceremonial use of peyote.
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C.
Quakers
The Quakers are the athletic teams representing the University of Pennsylvania in collegiate sports.
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D.
Religious Society of Friends
The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, is a Christian movement founded in 17th-century England that emphasizes inner spiritual experience, pacifism, and simple living.
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E.
Puritanism
Puritanism was a strict, reform-minded Protestant movement that emphasized moral rigor, biblical authority, and communal discipline, profoundly shaping early New England society and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Afrocentric movement
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religious movement ⓘ social movement ⓘ spiritual movement ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountry | Ethiopia ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson | Marcus Garvey ⓘ |
| coreBelief |
African identity
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Babylon as oppressive Western system ⓘ Haile Selassie I is divine ⓘ Haile Selassie I is divine ⓘ
surface form:
Haile Selassie I is the returned messiah
Ital living ⓘ Zion as Africa ⓘ black liberation ⓘ livity (spiritual way of life) ⓘ repatriation to Africa ⓘ resistance to oppression ⓘ use of ganja as sacrament ⓘ |
| demographicFocus | African diaspora ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
Bobo Ashanti
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Nyabinghi order ⓘ Twelve Tribes of Israel ⓘ |
| hasEthicalPrinciple |
anti-colonialism
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anti-racism ⓘ communal solidarity ⓘ natural living ⓘ rejection of materialism ⓘ |
| hasMainDeity | Haile Selassie I ⓘ |
| hasNotableFollower |
Bob Marley
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Bunny Wailer ⓘ Burning Spear ⓘ Culture (band) ⓘ Peter Tosh ⓘ |
| hasPractice |
Ital diet
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Nyabinghi drumming ⓘ chanting ⓘ dreadlocks ⓘ reasoning sessions ⓘ reggae music as expression ⓘ ritual use of cannabis ⓘ |
| hasViewOnJesus |
identifies Jesus with African identity
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sees Jesus as black ⓘ |
| hasViewOnSociety |
criticizes Western imperialism
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criticizes capitalism ⓘ criticizes colonialism ⓘ |
| inception | 1930s ⓘ |
| influenced |
Pan-Africanism discourse
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black identity politics ⓘ dancehall ⓘ dub music ⓘ global popular culture ⓘ reggae ⓘ roots reggae ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Marcus Garvey ⓘ |
| interpretsText | Bible in Afrocentric way ⓘ |
| musicVehicle |
reggae
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roots reggae ⓘ |
| originCountry | Jamaica ⓘ |
| religiousText | Bible ⓘ |
| spreadTo |
Africa
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Caribbean ⓘ Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| symbol |
Ethiopian flag colors
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Lion of Judah ⓘ red gold and green ⓘ |
| usesLanguageForm | Iyaric ⓘ |
| venerates | Haile Selassie I ⓘ |
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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: Rastafari movement Description of subject: The Rastafari movement is a spiritual and cultural movement that emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s, venerating Haile Selassie I, emphasizing African identity and resistance to oppression, and influencing global music and culture, especially through reggae.
Referenced by (123)
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