First Baptist Church in America
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The First Baptist Church in America is a historic congregation in Providence, Rhode Island, widely recognized as the oldest Baptist church in the United States and noted for its prominent 18th-century meetinghouse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Baptist Church in America canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7330659 — 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.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Baptist Church in America Context triple: [College Hill, contains, First Baptist Church in America]
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A.
Old South Church
Old South Church is a historic United Church of Christ congregation in Boston renowned for its distinctive Venetian Gothic architecture and prominent role in American religious and civic life.
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B.
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims is a historic Congregational church in Brooklyn Heights, New York, renowned for its 19th-century abolitionist activism and influential pastor Henry Ward Beecher.
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C.
King's Chapel
King's Chapel is a historic 18th-century Unitarian church in Boston renowned for its Georgian architecture and prominent role in the city’s colonial and revolutionary-era history.
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D.
First African Baptist Church
First African Baptist Church is a historic African American church on Cumberland Island, Georgia, known for its role in the island’s Black community and as the site of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s 1996 wedding.
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E.
Schuyler Baptist Church
Schuyler Baptist Church is a local Christian congregation and worship center serving the community of Schuyler in rural Virginia.
- 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: First Baptist Church in America Target entity description: The First Baptist Church in America is a historic congregation in Providence, Rhode Island, widely recognized as the oldest Baptist church in the United States and noted for its prominent 18th-century meetinghouse.
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A.
Old South Church
Old South Church is a historic United Church of Christ congregation in Boston renowned for its distinctive Venetian Gothic architecture and prominent role in American religious and civic life.
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B.
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims is a historic Congregational church in Brooklyn Heights, New York, renowned for its 19th-century abolitionist activism and influential pastor Henry Ward Beecher.
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C.
King's Chapel
King's Chapel is a historic 18th-century Unitarian church in Boston renowned for its Georgian architecture and prominent role in the city’s colonial and revolutionary-era history.
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D.
First African Baptist Church
First African Baptist Church is a historic African American church on Cumberland Island, Georgia, known for its role in the island’s Black community and as the site of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s 1996 wedding.
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E.
Schuyler Baptist Church
Schuyler Baptist Church is a local Christian congregation and worship center serving the community of Schuyler in rural Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Baptist church
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church building ⓘ historic church ⓘ religious organization ⓘ |
| affiliation | American Baptist Churches USA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architect | Joseph Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Colonial
ⓘ
Georgian ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brown University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
principle of separation of church and state ⓘ |
| builder | Joseph Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtIn | 1774–1775 ⓘ |
| completedIn | 1775 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| denomination | Baptist ⓘ |
| foundedBy | religious dissenters from Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1638 ⓘ |
| foundedInCity | Providence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInColony | Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Roger Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
First Baptist Church of Providence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
First Baptist Meetinghouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBuilding | First Baptist Church in America meetinghouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Baptist churches in Rhode Island
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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island ⓘ National Historic Landmarks in Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClergyRole | pastor ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bell tower
ⓘ
large auditorium ⓘ steeple ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.firstbaptistchurchinamerica.org/ ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
ⓘ
National Register of Historic Places ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. National Register of Historic Places listing
|
| heritageDesignationDate | 1960 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorship | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
College Hill, Providence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Providence, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Providence, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
18th-century meetinghouse
ⓘ
religious liberty history ⓘ role in early Baptist movement in America ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | oldest Baptist church in the United States ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 75 North Main Street, Providence, Rhode Island ⓘ |
| tradition | Free church tradition ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Brown University commencement ceremonies
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worship services ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: First Baptist Church in America Description of subject: The First Baptist Church in America is a historic congregation in Providence, Rhode Island, widely recognized as the oldest Baptist church in the United States and noted for its prominent 18th-century meetinghouse.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.