Old St. Peter's Basilica
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Old St. Peter's Basilica was a 4th-century early Christian church in Rome, traditionally believed to be built over the tomb of Saint Peter and later replaced by the present St. Peter's Basilica.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old St. Peter's Basilica canonical | 20 |
| Old St. Peter’s Basilica | 4 |
| Basilica of Saint Peter | 3 |
| St. Peter's Basilica | 3 |
| tomb of Saint Peter | 2 |
| Basilica of St. Peter (traditional attribution) | 1 |
| St. Peter’s Basilica | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T127006 — 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: Old St. Peter's Basilica Context triple: [St. Peter's Basilica, builtOnSiteOf, Old St. Peter's Basilica]
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A.
St. Peter's Basilica
St. Peter's Basilica is a monumental Renaissance church in Vatican City, renowned as one of the holiest Catholic shrines and a masterpiece of architecture and art.
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B.
Apostolic Palace
The Apostolic Palace is the official residence and administrative headquarters of the Pope within Vatican City, housing papal apartments, chapels, and key offices of the Catholic Church.
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C.
Tridentine Cathedral
Tridentine Cathedral is the principal Roman Catholic cathedral in Trento, Italy, historically renowned as the main venue of the Council of Trent in the 16th century.
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D.
Pietà Chapel
The Pietà Chapel is a side chapel within St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, best known for housing Michelangelo’s renowned marble sculpture of the Pietà.
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E.
St. Peter's Square
St. Peter's Square is the grand, elliptical plaza in Vatican City renowned for its Baroque colonnades and role as the gathering place for papal ceremonies and audiences.
- 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: Old St. Peter's Basilica Target entity description: Old St. Peter's Basilica was a 4th-century early Christian church in Rome, traditionally believed to be built over the tomb of Saint Peter and later replaced by the present St. Peter's Basilica.
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A.
St. Peter's Basilica
St. Peter's Basilica is a monumental Renaissance church in Vatican City, renowned as one of the holiest Catholic shrines and a masterpiece of architecture and art.
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B.
Apostolic Palace
The Apostolic Palace is the official residence and administrative headquarters of the Pope within Vatican City, housing papal apartments, chapels, and key offices of the Catholic Church.
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C.
Tridentine Cathedral
Tridentine Cathedral is the principal Roman Catholic cathedral in Trento, Italy, historically renowned as the main venue of the Council of Trent in the 16th century.
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D.
Pietà Chapel
The Pietà Chapel is a side chapel within St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, best known for housing Michelangelo’s renowned marble sculpture of the Pietà.
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E.
St. Peter's Square
St. Peter's Square is the grand, elliptical plaza in Vatican City renowned for its Baroque colonnades and role as the gathering place for papal ceremonies and audiences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basilica
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church building ⓘ demolished building ⓘ early Christian church ⓘ |
| apseLocation | west end ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | early Christian ⓘ |
| architecturalType | basilica plan ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Constantinian shift
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early Christian pilgrimage to Rome ⓘ |
| atriumName | Paradise ⓘ |
| builtOver |
Old St. Peter's Basilica
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
tomb of Saint Peter
|
| commissionedBy |
Constantinus Magnus
ⓘ
surface form:
Constantine the Great
|
| completionDate | circa 333 ⓘ |
| constructionStart |
circa 318
ⓘ
reign of Constantine the Great ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Apostle Peter
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Peter
|
| demolishedToMakeWayFor |
St. Peter's Basilica
ⓘ
surface form:
new St. Peter's Basilica
|
| demolitionEnd | circa 1626 ⓘ |
| demolitionStart | 1506 ⓘ |
| denomination |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| floorPlanType | Latin cross ⓘ |
| function |
papal basilica
ⓘ
pilgrimage church ⓘ |
| hadAtrium | yes ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | no longer extant ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| LatinName | Basilica Sancti Petri Vetus ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Rome
ⓘ
Vatican City ⓘ Vatican Hill ⓘ |
| mainEntranceOrientation | east ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
Confessio of Saint Peter
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surface form:
Confessio over the tomb of Saint Peter
five-aisled nave ⓘ large atrium courtyard ⓘ transept near the apse ⓘ |
| numberOfNaves | 5 ⓘ |
| partOf | Vatican complex ⓘ |
| patron |
Constantinus Magnus
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surface form:
Constantine the Great
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| replacedBy | St. Peter's Basilica ⓘ |
| servedAs | principal church of the papacy ⓘ |
| siteCurrentlyOccupiedBy | St. Peter's Basilica ⓘ |
| successor |
St. Peter's Basilica
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surface form:
Renaissance St. Peter's Basilica
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| traditionallyBelievedToBeBuiltOver | tomb of Saint Peter ⓘ |
| usedFor |
imperial ceremonies
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papal liturgies ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Old St. Peter's Basilica Description of subject: Old St. Peter's Basilica was a 4th-century early Christian church in Rome, traditionally believed to be built over the tomb of Saint Peter and later replaced by the present St. Peter's Basilica.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
tomb of Saint Peter
this entity surface form:
Old St. Peter’s Basilica
this entity surface form:
tomb of Saint Peter
this entity surface form:
Old St. Peter’s Basilica
subject surface form:
Wibert of Ravenna
subject surface form:
Pope Honorius I
this entity surface form:
Basilica of Saint Peter
this entity surface form:
St. Peter's Basilica
this entity surface form:
Basilica of Saint Peter
this entity surface form:
St. Peter's Basilica
this entity surface form:
St. Peter's Basilica
this entity surface form:
St. Peter’s Basilica
this entity surface form:
Old St. Peter’s Basilica
this entity surface form:
Basilica of St. Peter (traditional attribution)
this entity surface form:
Old St. Peter’s Basilica
this entity surface form:
Basilica of Saint Peter