Nostra Signora
E1036191
Nostra Signora is the Italian title for the Virgin Mary, widely used in Catholic devotion, churches, and place names throughout Italy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nostra Signora canonical | 1 |
| Nostra Signora della Misericordia | 1 |
| Nostra Signora delle Grazie | 1 |
| Our Lady of Mercy of Savona | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13372700 — 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: Nostra Signora Context triple: [Our Lady, equivalentTitleInItalian, Nostra Signora]
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A.
Our Lady of Monte Berico
Our Lady of Monte Berico is a Marian title associated with reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Vicenza, Italy, where she is venerated as the patroness of the Monte Berico Sanctuary.
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B.
Ognissanti Madonna
The Ognissanti Madonna is a large early 14th-century altarpiece by Giotto that marks a key step toward naturalism in Italian Renaissance painting, depicting the Virgin and Child enthroned and surrounded by angels and saints.
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C.
Madonna dei Fusi
Madonna dei Fusi is a Renaissance painting, traditionally attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child contemplating a yarnwinder that alludes to the cross.
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D.
Santa Maria Coghinas
Santa Maria Coghinas is a small town and comune in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy, known for its thermal springs and proximity to the Coghinas River.
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E.
Santa Maria a Monte
Santa Maria a Monte is a historic Tuscan town in central Italy known for its medieval hilltop setting and traditional Italian culture.
- 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: Nostra Signora Target entity description: Nostra Signora is the Italian title for the Virgin Mary, widely used in Catholic devotion, churches, and place names throughout Italy.
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A.
Our Lady of Monte Berico
Our Lady of Monte Berico is a Marian title associated with reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Vicenza, Italy, where she is venerated as the patroness of the Monte Berico Sanctuary.
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B.
Ognissanti Madonna
The Ognissanti Madonna is a large early 14th-century altarpiece by Giotto that marks a key step toward naturalism in Italian Renaissance painting, depicting the Virgin and Child enthroned and surrounded by angels and saints.
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C.
Madonna dei Fusi
Madonna dei Fusi is a Renaissance painting, traditionally attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child contemplating a yarnwinder that alludes to the cross.
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D.
Santa Maria Coghinas
Santa Maria Coghinas is a small town and comune in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy, known for its thermal springs and proximity to the Coghinas River.
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E.
Santa Maria a Monte
Santa Maria a Monte is a historic Tuscan town in central Italy known for its medieval hilltop setting and traditional Italian culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic devotional title
ⓘ
Marian title ⓘ religious title ⓘ |
| addressedIn |
hymns
ⓘ
litanies ⓘ prayers ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Marian churches
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marian devotions ⓘ Marian shrines ⓘ |
| countryOfUse | Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
inspiration for Italian religious architecture
ⓘ
inspiration for Italian religious art ⓘ symbol of Catholic identity in Italy ⓘ |
| devotionalContext |
Catholic liturgy
ⓘ
Marian veneration ⓘ popular piety in Italy ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Nostra Signora del Carmine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nostra Signora del Rosario NERFINISHED ⓘ Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore NERFINISHED ⓘ Nostra Signora della Guardia NERFINISHED ⓘ Nostra Signora della Misericordia NERFINISHED ⓘ Nostra Signora della Neve NERFINISHED ⓘ Nostra Signora della Salute NERFINISHED ⓘ Nostra Signora delle Grazie NERFINISHED ⓘ Nostra Signora di Fatima NERFINISHED ⓘ Nostra Signora di Lourdes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificFor | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Italian ⓘ |
| linguisticEquivalent |
Nossa Senhora
ⓘ
Notre-Dame NERFINISHED ⓘ Nuestra Señora NERFINISHED ⓘ Our Lady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meaning | Our Lady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersTo |
Mary, mother of Jesus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Virgin Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
|
| titleType | Marian honorific ⓘ |
| usedAs |
basilica name
ⓘ
parish name ⓘ sanctuary name ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Catholic devotion
ⓘ
church names ⓘ place names ⓘ toponyms in Italy ⓘ |
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: Nostra Signora Description of subject: Nostra Signora is the Italian title for the Virgin Mary, widely used in Catholic devotion, churches, and place names throughout Italy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nostra Signora delle Grazie
this entity surface form:
Nostra Signora della Misericordia
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Mercy of Savona