temperance movement

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political movement reform movement social movement

The temperance movement was a widespread social and political campaign, especially prominent in the 19th and early 20th centuries, that sought to reduce or prohibit the consumption of alcoholic beverages on moral and health grounds.

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Label	Occurrences
temperance movement canonical	14
American temperance movement	3
British temperance movement	3
Prohibition movement	3
United States temperance movement	2
temperance movement in the United States	2
Christian temperance movement	1
Promotion of temperance in the White House	1
Temperance movement	1
social purity movement	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T602475 — 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: temperance movement
Context triple: [Catharine Beecher, movement, temperance movement]

A. American Temperance Society
The American Temperance Society was a prominent early 19th-century U.S. reform organization that campaigned for reduced alcohol consumption and helped launch the broader temperance movement.
B. Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a major early-19th-century American religious revival movement that spurred widespread evangelical fervor, social reform campaigns, and the rapid growth of Protestant denominations.
C. Six Sermons on Intemperance
Six Sermons on Intemperance is a series of influential early 19th-century temperance sermons by Lyman Beecher that helped spark and shape the American temperance movement.
D. Prohibition era in the United States
The Prohibition era in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933, which fueled organized crime, speakeasies, and significant social and political conflict.
E. Home Rule movement
The Home Rule movement was an early 20th-century Indian political campaign led by figures like Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant that demanded self-government within the British Empire and helped lay the groundwork for mass nationalist mobilization.
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: temperance movement
Target entity description: The temperance movement was a widespread social and political campaign, especially prominent in the 19th and early 20th centuries, that sought to reduce or prohibit the consumption of alcoholic beverages on moral and health grounds.

A. American Temperance Society
The American Temperance Society was a prominent early 19th-century U.S. reform organization that campaigned for reduced alcohol consumption and helped launch the broader temperance movement.
B. Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a major early-19th-century American religious revival movement that spurred widespread evangelical fervor, social reform campaigns, and the rapid growth of Protestant denominations.
C. Six Sermons on Intemperance
Six Sermons on Intemperance is a series of influential early 19th-century temperance sermons by Lyman Beecher that helped spark and shape the American temperance movement.
D. Prohibition era in the United States
The Prohibition era in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933, which fueled organized crime, speakeasies, and significant social and political conflict.
E. Home Rule movement
The Home Rule movement was an early 20th-century Indian political campaign led by figures like Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant that demanded self-government within the British Empire and helped lay the groundwork for mass nationalist mobilization.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (71)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	political movement ⓘ reform movement ⓘ social movement ⓘ
endTime	20th century ⓘ
hasGeographicScope	Australia ⓘ Canada ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Scandinavia ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
hasKeyConcept	abstinence from alcohol ⓘ moderation in drinking ⓘ prohibitionism ⓘ teetotalism ⓘ
hasMainGoal	prohibition of alcoholic beverages ⓘ reduction of alcohol consumption ⓘ
hasMotivation	moral concerns about alcohol use ⓘ public health concerns ⓘ religious beliefs ⓘ social order concerns ⓘ
hasNotableFigure	Billy Sunday ⓘ Carry Nation ⓘ Frances Willard ⓘ John B. Gough ⓘ Lyman Beecher ⓘ Mary Hunt ⓘ Neal Dow ⓘ
hasNotableOrganization	American Temperance Society ⓘ Anti-Saloon League ⓘ Band of Hope ⓘ Blue Ribbon Army ⓘ British and Foreign Temperance Society ⓘ Independent Order of Good Templars ⓘ Rechabites ⓘ Sons of Temperance ⓘ Woman's Christian Temperance Union ⓘ
hasOppositionFrom	brewing industry ⓘ distilling industry ⓘ saloon keepers ⓘ some immigrant communities ⓘ
hasRelatedIdeology	Victorian morality ⓘ progressivism ⓘ social gospel ⓘ
hasRelatedMovement	prohibition movement ⓘ public health movement ⓘ women's Christian reform movements ⓘ
hasSocialImpact	changes in drinking culture ⓘ closure of saloons ⓘ creation of dry counties ⓘ increased role of women in reform politics ⓘ
influenced	Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ Prohibition in the United States ⓘ linked to: Prohibition era in the United States Volstead Act ⓘ linked to: National Prohibition Act licensing laws for alcohol ⓘ local option alcohol laws ⓘ social purity movement ⓘ women's suffrage movement in the United States ⓘ
influencedBy	Methodism ⓘ evangelical Protestantism ⓘ linked to: Evangelicalism revivalism ⓘ
startTime	early 19th century ⓘ
usedMethod	advocacy for legislation ⓘ formation of temperance societies ⓘ moral suasion ⓘ pamphleteering ⓘ petition campaigns ⓘ pledge signing ⓘ political lobbying ⓘ public lectures ⓘ
wasMostActiveDuring	19th century ⓘ early 20th century ⓘ

How these facts were elicited