Helena
E37304
Helena, also known as Saint Helena, was the mother of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and is traditionally credited with finding the True Cross and promoting Christianity within the Roman Empire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Helena canonical | 34 |
| Helena (daughter of Constantine) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T285746 — 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: Helena Context triple: [Constantine the Great, mother, Helena]
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A.
Helena
Helena is the capital city of the U.S. state of Montana, known for its historic gold rush origins and scenic location in the northern Rocky Mountains.
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B.
Clementina
Clementina is a feminine given name, often considered a variant of Clementine, used in various European and Latin American cultures.
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C.
Sidon
Sidon is an ancient Phoenician port city, located in present-day Lebanon, that was a major center of maritime trade and culture in the eastern Mediterranean.
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D.
Avully
Avully is a small Swiss municipality located in the canton of Geneva, near the French border.
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E.
Gori
Gori is a city in central Georgia best known as the birthplace of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- 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: Helena Target entity description: Helena, also known as Saint Helena, was the mother of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and is traditionally credited with finding the True Cross and promoting Christianity within the Roman Empire.
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A.
Helena
Helena is the capital city of the U.S. state of Montana, known for its historic gold rush origins and scenic location in the northern Rocky Mountains.
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B.
Clementina
Clementina is a feminine given name, often considered a variant of Clementine, used in various European and Latin American cultures.
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C.
Sidon
Sidon is an ancient Phoenician port city, located in present-day Lebanon, that was a major center of maritime trade and culture in the eastern Mediterranean.
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D.
Avully
Avully is a small Swiss municipality located in the canton of Geneva, near the French border.
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E.
Gori
Gori is a city in central Georgia best known as the birthplace of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian saint
ⓘ
Roman empress ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Saint Helena of Constantinople
ⓘ
surface form:
Helena of Constantinople
Saint Helena ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
ⓘ
Istanbul ⓘ
surface form:
Constantinople
Jerusalem ⓘ building of churches at Bethlehem and on the Mount of Olives ⓘ discovery of the True Cross in Jerusalem ⓘ |
| buriedAt | Mausoleum of Helena on the Via Labicana near Rome ⓘ |
| century |
3rd century
ⓘ
4th century ⓘ |
| child |
Constantinus Magnus
ⓘ
surface form:
Constantine the Great
|
| creditedWith |
finding the True Cross
ⓘ
promoting Christianity in the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| era |
Late Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Late Roman Empire
|
| feastDay |
18 August (Western tradition)
ⓘ
21 May (with Constantine in Eastern tradition) ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| honoredAs |
saint in some Lutheran churches
ⓘ
saint in the Anglican Communion ⓘ saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church ⓘ saint in the Roman Catholic Church ⓘ |
| influenced | imperial support for Christianity ⓘ |
| knownFor |
construction of churches in the Holy Land
ⓘ
pilgrimage to the Holy Land ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Constantinus Magnus
ⓘ
surface form:
Constantine the Great
|
| notableFor | imperial patronage of Christian holy sites ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Constantinus Magnus
ⓘ
surface form:
Constantine I
|
| patronage |
archaeologists
ⓘ
difficult marriages ⓘ divorced people ⓘ new discoveries ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| roleIn | Christianization of the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Constantius Chlorus ⓘ |
| title | Empress of the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| traditionallyBornIn | Bithynia ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
Lutheranism ⓘ Oriental Orthodoxy ⓘ
surface form:
Oriental Orthodox Churches
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: Helena Description of subject: Helena, also known as Saint Helena, was the mother of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and is traditionally credited with finding the True Cross and promoting Christianity within the Roman Empire.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Constantine the Great
subject surface form:
Constantine the Great
this entity surface form:
Helena (daughter of Constantine)
subject surface form:
Constantine the Great
subject surface form:
Helena Bonham Carter
subject surface form:
Crispus