Virgin of Candelaria
E300982
The Virgin of Candelaria is a revered Marian apparition and patron saint of the Canary Islands, especially venerated in Tenerife.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Our Lady of Candelaria | 6 |
| Virgin of Candelaria canonical | 6 |
| Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria | 5 |
| Our Lady of Candelaria of Mayagüez | 1 |
| Virgen de la Candelaria | 1 |
| statue of the Virgin of Candelaria | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2822020 — 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: Virgin of Candelaria Context triple: [Iglesia de La Candelaria, dedicatedTo, Virgin of Candelaria]
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A.
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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B.
Nuestra Señora de La Paz
Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the original Spanish name of the Bolivian city now known simply as La Paz, one of the country’s main political and cultural centers.
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C.
Santísima Trinidad
Santísima Trinidad was a massive Spanish first-rate ship of the line, famed as one of the largest warships of its time and noted for its role in major naval battles of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Virgin of El Panecillo monument
The Virgin of El Panecillo monument is a towering aluminum statue of the Virgin Mary overlooking Quito from the hill of El Panecillo, serving as one of the city's most iconic symbols.
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E.
Santa Rosalía
Santa Rosalía is a historic mining town and port on the eastern coast of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico, known for its French-influenced architecture and copper mining heritage.
- 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: Virgin of Candelaria Target entity description: The Virgin of Candelaria is a revered Marian apparition and patron saint of the Canary Islands, especially venerated in Tenerife.
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A.
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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B.
Nuestra Señora de La Paz
Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the original Spanish name of the Bolivian city now known simply as La Paz, one of the country’s main political and cultural centers.
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C.
Santísima Trinidad
Santísima Trinidad was a massive Spanish first-rate ship of the line, famed as one of the largest warships of its time and noted for its role in major naval battles of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Virgin of El Panecillo monument
The Virgin of El Panecillo monument is a towering aluminum statue of the Virgin Mary overlooking Quito from the hill of El Panecillo, serving as one of the city's most iconic symbols.
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E.
Santa Rosalía
Santa Rosalía is a historic mining town and port on the eastern coast of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico, known for its French-influenced architecture and copper mining heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic title of Mary
ⓘ
Marian apparition ⓘ Marian devotion ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
La Morenita
ⓘ
Virgin of Candelaria ⓘ
surface form:
Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
Virgin of Candelaria ⓘ
surface form:
Our Lady of Candelaria
Virgin of Candelaria ⓘ
surface form:
Virgen de la Candelaria
|
| associatedWith |
Black Madonna tradition
ⓘ
Candelaria ⓘ
surface form:
Candelaria (municipality)
Guanche people ⓘ
surface form:
Guanches
|
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | patroness of the Canary people ⓘ |
| denomination | Catholicism ⓘ |
| depicts |
Madonna and Child
ⓘ
surface form:
Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus
|
| devotionalPractice |
Marian chaplets
ⓘ
surface form:
Marian rosary
processions with candles ⓘ votive offerings ⓘ |
| feastAssociatedWith |
Candlemas
ⓘ
Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple ⓘ
surface form:
Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple ⓘ
surface form:
Feast of the Purification of the Virgin
|
| feastDay |
15 August
ⓘ
2 February ⓘ |
| hasPilgrimage | annual pilgrimage to the Basilica of Candelaria ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Patroness of the Canary Archipelago
ⓘ
Queen of the Canary Islands ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
candle in hand
ⓘ
dark-skinned face ⓘ |
| influenced |
Canarian religious identity
ⓘ
local festivals in Tenerife ⓘ |
| languageOfCult |
Guanche
ⓘ
surface form:
Guanche (historical)
Spanish ⓘ |
| liturgicalColorAssociation | white ⓘ |
| mainShrine |
Basilica of Our Lady of Candelaria
ⓘ
surface form:
Basilica of Candelaria
|
| mainShrineLocation | Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain ⓘ |
| patronSaintOf |
Canary Islands
ⓘ
Tenerife ⓘ |
| regionOfCult |
Canary Islands
ⓘ
Latin America ⓘ Spain ⓘ Tenerife ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| symbol |
candle
ⓘ
light ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | candles ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
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: Virgin of Candelaria Description of subject: The Virgin of Candelaria is a revered Marian apparition and patron saint of the Canary Islands, especially venerated in Tenerife.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Candelaria of Mayagüez
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Candelaria
this entity surface form:
statue of the Virgin of Candelaria
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Candelaria
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Candelaria
this entity surface form:
Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
this entity surface form:
Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Candelaria
this entity surface form:
Virgen de la Candelaria
this entity surface form:
Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Candelaria
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Candelaria
this entity surface form:
Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria