Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
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Baptist church
National Historic Landmark
historic church
property listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a historic Montgomery, Alabama church best known as the pastoral home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a key organizing center of the civil rights movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church canonical | 13 |
| Dexter Avenue Baptist Church | 1 |
| Dexter Avenue Baptist Church congregation | 1 |
| Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T412692 — 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: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church Context triple: [Montgomery, Alabama, knownFor, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church]
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A.
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Selma, Alabama, best known as the starting point and organizing hub of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches.
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B.
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African-American church in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, known as one of the area’s oldest and most significant religious and community institutions.
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C.
16th Street Baptist Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church is a historic African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, best known as the site of a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four Black girls and became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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D.
St. John Institutional Missionary Baptist Church
St. John Institutional Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African American church in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, long serving as a spiritual and community hub in the area.
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E.
Miller Chapel
Miller Chapel is the historic worship and gathering space at Princeton Theological Seminary, serving as a central venue for religious services, ceremonies, and community events.
- 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: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church Target entity description: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a historic Montgomery, Alabama church best known as the pastoral home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a key organizing center of the civil rights movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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A.
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Selma, Alabama, best known as the starting point and organizing hub of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches.
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B.
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African-American church in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, known as one of the area’s oldest and most significant religious and community institutions.
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C.
16th Street Baptist Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church is a historic African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, best known as the site of a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four Black girls and became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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D.
St. John Institutional Missionary Baptist Church
St. John Institutional Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African American church in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, long serving as a spiritual and community hub in the area.
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E.
Miller Chapel
Miller Chapel is the historic worship and gathering space at Princeton Theological Seminary, serving as a central venue for religious services, ceremonies, and community events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Baptist church
ⓘ
National Historic Landmark ⓘ historic church ⓘ property listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| affiliation |
National Baptist Convention, USA
ⓘ
linked to:
National Baptist Convention USA Inc.
|
| architecturalStyle | Romanesque Revival ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
Montgomery Bus Boycott ⓘ
linked to:
Montgomery bus boycott
nonviolent protest strategy development ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization | Montgomery Improvement Association ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Jo Ann Robinson
ⓘ
Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ Ralph Abernathy ⓘ |
| constructionStartYear | 1883 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateAddedToNRHP | 1970-12-19 ⓘ |
| dateDesignatedNationalHistoricLandmark | 1974-05-30 ⓘ |
| denomination | Baptist ⓘ |
| distanceToAlabamaStateCapitol | approximately one block ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church ⓘ
linked to:
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
|
| hasCommemoration | murals depicting civil rights history ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
basement used for civil rights organizing
ⓘ
pulpit associated with Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ sanctuary with stained-glass windows ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
ⓘ
U.S. National Register of Historic Places ⓘ
linked to:
National Register of Historic Places
|
| isTouristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alabama
ⓘ
Dexter Avenue ⓘ Montgomery, Alabama ⓘ downtown Montgomery ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Alabama State Capitol ⓘ |
| material | brick ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Dexter Avenue
ⓘ
Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| NRHPReferenceNumber | 70000109 ⓘ |
| offers | guided tours ⓘ |
| pastor | Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| pastorEndDate | 1960 ⓘ |
| pastorStartDate | 1954 ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Protestant Christianity ⓘ |
| significance |
key organizing center of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
ⓘ
symbol of the civil rights movement ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Montgomery Bus Boycott planning meetings
ⓘ
mass meetings during the civil rights movement ⓘ organizational center of the Montgomery Improvement Association ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1889 ⓘ |
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: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church Description of subject: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a historic Montgomery, Alabama church best known as the pastoral home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a key organizing center of the civil rights movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
→
hasAlternativeName
→
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church
ⓘ
linked to: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Montgomery African-American community
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includedOrganization
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Dexter Avenue Baptist Church congregation
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linked to: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
subject linked to:
downtown Montgomery