Americans United for Separation of Church and State
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Americans United for Separation of Church and State is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to defending the constitutional separation between religion and government in the United States through litigation, education, and public policy work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Americans United for Separation of Church and State canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8330437 — 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: Americans United for Separation of Church and State Context triple: [Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, involves, Americans United for Separation of Church and State]
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A.
American Humanist Association
The American Humanist Association is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that advocates for humanist values, church-state separation, and civil liberties from a non-theistic, progressive perspective.
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B.
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is the public policy and moral advocacy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, focusing on issues of ethics, religious freedom, and social concerns from an evangelical Christian perspective.
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C.
National Secular Society
The National Secular Society is a UK-based organization that campaigns for the separation of religion and state and promotes secularism, human rights, and equality before the law.
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D.
Religious Liberty Commission
The Religious Liberty Commission is a human rights advocacy body of the World Evangelical Alliance that focuses on defending and promoting religious freedom worldwide, particularly for persecuted Christians.
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E.
American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union is a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending and preserving individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and laws.
- 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: Americans United for Separation of Church and State Target entity description: Americans United for Separation of Church and State is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to defending the constitutional separation between religion and government in the United States through litigation, education, and public policy work.
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A.
American Humanist Association
The American Humanist Association is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that advocates for humanist values, church-state separation, and civil liberties from a non-theistic, progressive perspective.
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B.
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is the public policy and moral advocacy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, focusing on issues of ethics, religious freedom, and social concerns from an evangelical Christian perspective.
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C.
National Secular Society
The National Secular Society is a UK-based organization that campaigns for the separation of religion and state and promotes secularism, human rights, and equality before the law.
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D.
Religious Liberty Commission
The Religious Liberty Commission is a human rights advocacy body of the World Evangelical Alliance that focuses on defending and promoting religious freedom worldwide, particularly for persecuted Christians.
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E.
American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union is a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending and preserving individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and laws.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
advocacy organization
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nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
government neutrality in religious matters
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religious freedom for all faiths and none ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork |
church–state separation
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civil liberties ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ public policy advocacy ⓘ religious liberty law ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Establishment Clause
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First Amendment issues ⓘ Free Exercise Clause ⓘ |
| founded | 1947 ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
donations
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grants ⓘ membership contributions ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
coalition-building with allied organizations
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engaging with media ⓘ filing amicus curiae briefs ⓘ monitoring legislation ⓘ publishing educational materials ⓘ representing plaintiffs in church–state cases ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasScope | national ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| ideology | support for separation of church and state ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit ⓘ |
| method |
grassroots organizing
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legislative advocacy ⓘ litigation ⓘ public education ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | tax-exempt ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
federal courts of the United States
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linked to:
U.S. federal courts
state courts in the United States ⓘ |
| opposes |
government endorsement of religion
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government funding of religious activities ⓘ religious discrimination by government ⓘ |
| purpose |
defense of freedom of conscience
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defense of separation of church and state ⓘ protection of religious freedom ⓘ |
| regionServed |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| serves |
individuals affected by church–state violations
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nonreligious individuals ⓘ religious minorities ⓘ |
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: Americans United for Separation of Church and State Description of subject: Americans United for Separation of Church and State is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to defending the constitutional separation between religion and government in the United States through litigation, education, and public policy work.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
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involves
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Americans United for Separation of Church and State
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