Assertion: pledge | /r/CapableOf | predate bellamy
Facets:
value: by 5 years
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Balch's pledge, which predates Bellamy's by 5 years and was embraced by many schools, by the Daughters of the American Revolution until the 1910s, and by the Grand Army of the Republic until the 1923 National Flag Conference, is often overlooked when discussing the history of the Pledge.