Holy Face of Jesus
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The Holy Face of Jesus is a Roman Catholic devotion focused on honoring and contemplating the suffering, love, and redemptive presence of Christ as reflected in his countenance, especially during the Passion.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| face of Jesus Christ | 2 |
| Acheiropoieta images of Christ | 1 |
| Holy Face chaplet | 1 |
| Holy Face novena | 1 |
| Holy Face of Jesus canonical | 1 |
| Holy Face prayers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2667414 — 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: Holy Face of Jesus Context triple: [Sacred Heart of Jesus, relatedDevotion, Holy Face of Jesus]
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A.
Virgin Mary statue
The Virgin Mary statue on Cerro San Cristóbal is a prominent white monument of the Virgin Mary overlooking Santiago, Chile, and serving as a major religious and tourist attraction.
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B.
Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a major Roman Catholic devotion that honors Christ’s compassionate love symbolized by his heart, often depicted aflame and crowned with thorns.
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C.
Lucca Madonna
Lucca Madonna is a small 15th-century oil painting by Jan van Eyck depicting the Virgin Mary enthroned with the Christ Child in a richly detailed domestic interior.
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D.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe is a celebrated Marian title of the Virgin Mary associated with her 1531 apparitions to Saint Juan Diego in Mexico, revered as a powerful religious and cultural symbol throughout the Americas.
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E.
Alba Madonna
The Alba Madonna is a renowned early 16th-century circular painting by Raphael depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child and the infant John the Baptist, celebrated as a masterpiece of High Renaissance art.
- 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: Holy Face of Jesus Target entity description: The Holy Face of Jesus is a Roman Catholic devotion focused on honoring and contemplating the suffering, love, and redemptive presence of Christ as reflected in his countenance, especially during the Passion.
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A.
Virgin Mary statue
The Virgin Mary statue on Cerro San Cristóbal is a prominent white monument of the Virgin Mary overlooking Santiago, Chile, and serving as a major religious and tourist attraction.
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B.
Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a major Roman Catholic devotion that honors Christ’s compassionate love symbolized by his heart, often depicted aflame and crowned with thorns.
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C.
Lucca Madonna
Lucca Madonna is a small 15th-century oil painting by Jan van Eyck depicting the Virgin Mary enthroned with the Christ Child in a richly detailed domestic interior.
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D.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe is a celebrated Marian title of the Virgin Mary associated with her 1531 apparitions to Saint Juan Diego in Mexico, revered as a powerful religious and cultural symbol throughout the Americas.
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E.
Alba Madonna
The Alba Madonna is a renowned early 16th-century circular painting by Raphael depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child and the infant John the Baptist, celebrated as a masterpiece of High Renaissance art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian devotion
ⓘ
Roman Catholic devotion ⓘ |
| associatedWithImage |
Holy Face of Jesus
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Acheiropoieta images of Christ
Manoppello ⓘ
surface form:
Manoppello Image
Shroud of Turin ⓘ Veil of Veronica ⓘ |
| devotionalGoal |
consolation of the Heart of Jesus
ⓘ
conversion of sinners ⓘ peace in families and society ⓘ sanctification of souls ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Passion of Christ
ⓘ
Holy Face of Jesus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
face of Jesus Christ
love of Christ ⓘ redemptive presence of Christ ⓘ suffering of Christ ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
consolation of Jesus
ⓘ
contemplation of Christ’s countenance ⓘ reparation for sins ⓘ |
| hasDevotionalPractice |
Holy Face of Jesus
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Holy Face chaplet
Holy Face of Jesus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Holy Face novena
Holy Face of Jesus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Holy Face prayers
Holy Hour devotion ⓘ
surface form:
Holy Hour of Reparation
|
| hasFeast | Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus ⓘ |
| hasSymbol |
disfigured face of Christ during the Passion
ⓘ
face of Christ crowned with thorns ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | mystical visions of various saints ⓘ |
| liturgicalConnection |
Lent
ⓘ
Passiontide ⓘ |
| prayerIntention |
reparation for blasphemy and atheism
ⓘ
reparation for offenses against God ⓘ reparation for sacrilege ⓘ |
| promotedBy |
Pope John Paul II
ⓘ
Pope Leo XIII ⓘ Pope Pius XII ⓘ |
| relatedDevotion |
Sacred Heart of Jesus
ⓘ
surface form:
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Holy Hour devotion ⓘ
surface form:
Eucharistic adoration
Passion of Christ ⓘ
surface form:
Passion of Christ devotions
|
| religiousTradition |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| spiritualEffect |
deeper participation in the Passion of Christ
ⓘ
growth in love of Christ ⓘ increase of faith, hope, and charity ⓘ |
| theologicalTheme |
Eucharistic reparation
ⓘ
contemplation of the Incarnate Word ⓘ reparation for blasphemy ⓘ reparation for profanation of Sundays and holy days ⓘ union with the sufferings of Christ ⓘ |
| veneratedBy |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholics
some Eastern Christians ⓘ |
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: Holy Face of Jesus Description of subject: The Holy Face of Jesus is a Roman Catholic devotion focused on honoring and contemplating the suffering, love, and redemptive presence of Christ as reflected in his countenance, especially during the Passion.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
face of Jesus Christ
this entity surface form:
face of Jesus Christ
this entity surface form:
Acheiropoieta images of Christ
this entity surface form:
Holy Face prayers
this entity surface form:
Holy Face chaplet
this entity surface form:
Holy Face novena