Saint Patrick
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Saint Patrick is the 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland and later venerated as the country’s patron saint.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T104733 — 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: Saint Patrick Context triple: [St. Patrick’s Cathedral, namedAfter, Saint Patrick]
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St Martin
St Martin is a Christian saint, traditionally known as Martin of Tours, venerated for his humility and charity, particularly his legendary act of sharing his cloak with a beggar.
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Seamus
Seamus is the Irish form of the given name James, commonly used for boys in Ireland and among the Irish diaspora.
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Archbishop James Ussher
Archbishop James Ussher was a 17th-century Irish prelate and scholar best known for his biblical chronology that dated the creation of the world to 4004 BC.
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Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph is a key figure in Christianity, venerated as the earthly father of Jesus and a model of humility, obedience, and protective care.
- 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: Saint Patrick Target entity description: Saint Patrick is the 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland and later venerated as the country’s patron saint.
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A.
St Martin
St Martin is a Christian saint, traditionally known as Martin of Tours, venerated for his humility and charity, particularly his legendary act of sharing his cloak with a beggar.
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B.
Seamus
Seamus is the Irish form of the given name James, commonly used for boys in Ireland and among the Irish diaspora.
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C.
Archbishop James Ussher
Archbishop James Ussher was a 17th-century Irish prelate and scholar best known for his biblical chronology that dated the creation of the world to 4004 BC.
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D.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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E.
Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph is a key figure in Christianity, venerated as the earthly father of Jesus and a model of humility, obedience, and protective care.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Saint Patrick Description of subject: Saint Patrick is the 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland and later venerated as the country’s patron saint.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
St. Patrick’s Day Parade (New York City)
this entity surface form:
St. Patrick for Ireland
this entity surface form:
Apostle of Ireland
subject surface form:
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
subject surface form:
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
this entity surface form:
St. Patrick
this entity surface form:
life of Saint Patrick
this entity surface form:
Saint Patrick of Ireland
subject surface form:
Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus
subject surface form:
Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus
subject surface form:
Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus
this entity surface form:
Saint Patrick as bishop
this entity surface form:
Saint Patrick (traditional)
subject surface form:
Irish Guards
this entity surface form:
"Patrick" referring to Saint Patrick
this entity surface form:
Saint Patrick of Ireland (in some Eastern traditions)
subject surface form:
St Patrick’s College, Ballina