Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Margaret Mary Alacoque was a 17th-century French Visitation nun and mystic known for her visions of Jesus and her role in spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart in the Catholic Church.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaret Mary Alacoque canonical | 7 |
| Marguerite-Marie Alacoque | 1 |
| Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2667390 — 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: Margaret Mary Alacoque Context triple: [Sacred Heart of Jesus, promotedBy, Margaret Mary Alacoque]
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Saint Rose of Lima
Saint Rose of Lima was a 17th-century Peruvian laywoman of the Dominican Order, venerated as the first Catholic saint of the Americas and renowned for her extreme piety and care for the poor.
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St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort
St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort was a French Catholic priest and influential Marian theologian whose writings on total consecration to Mary deeply shaped modern Catholic spirituality.
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C.
Marie-Thérèse Guyon
Marie-Thérèse Guyon was a French colonial woman of New France notable as the wife and partner of explorer and Detroit founder Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.
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D.
Bernadette Soubirous
Bernadette Soubirous was a French peasant girl and Catholic saint who reported Marian apparitions at Lourdes, leading the town to become a major pilgrimage site.
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Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena was a 14th-century Italian mystic, theologian, and Dominican tertiary renowned for her influential spiritual writings and role in Church politics, including urging the papacy’s return to Rome.
- 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: Margaret Mary Alacoque Target entity description: Margaret Mary Alacoque was a 17th-century French Visitation nun and mystic known for her visions of Jesus and her role in spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart in the Catholic Church.
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A.
Saint Rose of Lima
Saint Rose of Lima was a 17th-century Peruvian laywoman of the Dominican Order, venerated as the first Catholic saint of the Americas and renowned for her extreme piety and care for the poor.
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B.
St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort
St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort was a French Catholic priest and influential Marian theologian whose writings on total consecration to Mary deeply shaped modern Catholic spirituality.
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C.
Marie-Thérèse Guyon
Marie-Thérèse Guyon was a French colonial woman of New France notable as the wife and partner of explorer and Detroit founder Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.
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D.
Bernadette Soubirous
Bernadette Soubirous was a French peasant girl and Catholic saint who reported Marian apparitions at Lourdes, leading the town to become a major pilgrimage site.
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E.
Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena was a 14th-century Italian mystic, theologian, and Dominican tertiary renowned for her influential spiritual writings and role in Church politics, including urging the papacy’s return to Rome.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic nun
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French person ⓘ Visitation nun ⓘ mystic ⓘ saint ⓘ |
| associatedDevotionPractice |
First Friday devotion
ⓘ
surface form:
First Fridays Communion
Holy Hour devotion ⓘ
surface form:
Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament
|
| associatedWith |
Paray-le-Monial Basilica
ⓘ
surface form:
Paray-le-Monial Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart
|
| beatificationDate | 1864-09-18 ⓘ |
| beatifiedBy | Pope Pius IX ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1647-07-22 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
L’Hautecour, Burgundy, France
ⓘ
Verosvres, Burgundy, France ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Paray-le-Monial Basilica
ⓘ
surface form:
Chapel of the Visitation, Paray-le-Monial, France
|
| canonizationDate | 1920-05-13 ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | canonized saint ⓘ |
| canonizedBy | Pope Benedict XV ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1690-10-17 ⓘ |
| devotion | Sacred Heart of Jesus ⓘ |
| familyName | Alacoque ⓘ |
| feastDay |
10-16
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10-17 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Margaret Mary Alacoque
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Marguerite-Marie Alacoque
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Marguerite-Marie ⓘ |
| influenced |
devotion to the Sacred Heart worldwide
ⓘ
establishment of the Feast of the Sacred Heart ⓘ |
| knownFor |
mystical visions of Jesus Christ
ⓘ
promoting Holy Hour devotion ⓘ promoting devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus ⓘ spreading First Friday devotions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary ⓘ |
| notableEvent | received a series of visions of the Sacred Heart between 1673 and 1675 ⓘ |
| occupation |
mystic
ⓘ
nun ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paray-le-Monial, France ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| religiousOrder | Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary ⓘ |
| residence | Paray-le-Monial, France ⓘ |
| spiritualDirector |
Claude de la Colombière
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surface form:
Claude La Colombière
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| title |
Apostle of the Sacred Heart
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Religious ⓘ Virgin ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| visionSubject | Jesus Christ ⓘ |
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: Margaret Mary Alacoque Description of subject: Margaret Mary Alacoque was a 17th-century French Visitation nun and mystic known for her visions of Jesus and her role in spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart in the Catholic Church.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
this entity surface form:
Marguerite-Marie Alacoque