New York Yearly Meeting
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New York Yearly Meeting is a regional body of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the northeastern United States, known for its liberal, socially engaged, and inclusive approach to Quaker faith and practice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New York Yearly Meeting canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T524797 — 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: New York Yearly Meeting Context triple: [Liberal Friends, associatedOrganization, New York Yearly Meeting]
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A.
North Pacific Yearly Meeting
North Pacific Yearly Meeting is a regional body of unprogrammed, liberal Quaker meetings in the northwestern United States.
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B.
Friends United Meeting
Friends United Meeting is a major association of Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) yearly meetings that emphasizes Christian faith and global mission work within the broader Quaker tradition.
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C.
Unitarian Universalist Association
The Unitarian Universalist Association is a liberal religious organization in the United States and Canada that serves as the central body for Unitarian Universalist congregations, promoting a non-creedal, inclusive, and socially progressive faith.
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D.
Quaker United Nations Office
The Quaker United Nations Office is a Quaker-affiliated organization that engages in quiet diplomacy and advocacy at the United Nations on issues such as peace, human rights, and social justice.
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E.
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.
- 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: New York Yearly Meeting Target entity description: New York Yearly Meeting is a regional body of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the northeastern United States, known for its liberal, socially engaged, and inclusive approach to Quaker faith and practice.
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A.
North Pacific Yearly Meeting
North Pacific Yearly Meeting is a regional body of unprogrammed, liberal Quaker meetings in the northwestern United States.
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B.
Friends United Meeting
Friends United Meeting is a major association of Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) yearly meetings that emphasizes Christian faith and global mission work within the broader Quaker tradition.
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C.
Unitarian Universalist Association
The Unitarian Universalist Association is a liberal religious organization in the United States and Canada that serves as the central body for Unitarian Universalist congregations, promoting a non-creedal, inclusive, and socially progressive faith.
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D.
Quaker United Nations Office
The Quaker United Nations Office is a Quaker-affiliated organization that engages in quiet diplomacy and advocacy at the United Nations on issues such as peace, human rights, and social justice.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Quaker organization
ⓘ
Yearly Meeting ⓘ religious organization ⓘ |
| affiliation | Friends General Conference ⓘ |
| characteristic |
inclusive
ⓘ
socially engaged ⓘ unprogrammed worship ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decisionMakingProcess |
Quaker meeting for worship for business
ⓘ
surface form:
Quaker business method
sense of the meeting ⓘ |
| denomination |
Religious Society of Friends
ⓘ
surface form:
Quaker
|
| emphasis |
LGBTQ inclusion
ⓘ
anti-racism ⓘ environmental stewardship ⓘ equality ⓘ inclusivity ⓘ peace ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| focus |
public witness
ⓘ
religious education ⓘ spiritual nurture of meetings ⓘ support for Quaker ministries ⓘ |
| governingBodyOf |
monthly meetings
ⓘ
quarterly meetings ⓘ |
| hasCommittee |
Ministry and Oversight Committee
ⓘ
surface form:
Ministry and Counsel committee
Nurture committee ⓘ Peace and Social Concerns Committee ⓘ
surface form:
Peace and Social Action committee
Witness committee ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
earthcare and environmental witness programs
ⓘ
peace and justice programs ⓘ prison ministry programs ⓘ religious education programs ⓘ youth programs ⓘ |
| holdsEvent |
annual sessions
ⓘ
fall sessions ⓘ spring sessions ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Religious Society of Friends ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Connecticut
ⓘ
New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
Northeastern United States ⓘ
surface form:
northeastern United States
|
| religiousTradition | Religious Society of Friends ⓘ |
| shortName | NYYM ⓘ |
| theologicalOrientation | liberal Quakerism ⓘ |
| website | https://www.nyym.org/ ⓘ |
| worshipStyle | unprogrammed meeting for worship ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Input
Subject: New York Yearly Meeting Description of subject: New York Yearly Meeting is a regional body of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the northeastern United States, known for its liberal, socially engaged, and inclusive approach to Quaker faith and practice.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.