Andrew the Apostle
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Andrew the Apostle was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, traditionally regarded as the first-called apostle and a key figure in early Christianity.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Apostle Andrew | 13 |
| Saint Andrew the Apostle | 12 |
| Andrew the Apostle canonical | 7 |
| Saint Andrew the First-Called | 2 |
| Andrew the First-Called | 1 |
| The Apostle Andrew | 1 |
| Άγιος Ανδρέας ο Πρωτόκλητος | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T331548 — 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: Andrew the Apostle Context triple: [Apostle Peter, sibling, Andrew the Apostle]
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Apostle Peter
Apostle Peter was one of Jesus Christ’s closest disciples and a foundational leader of the early Christian Church, traditionally regarded as the first Pope.
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Apostle Thomas
Apostle Thomas, also known as "Doubting Thomas," was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, best known for initially doubting Jesus’ resurrection until he personally saw and touched Christ’s wounds.
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Apostle Philip
Apostle Philip was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, known from the New Testament for his role as an early follower and witness to Christ’s ministry and teachings.
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Apostle Paul
Apostle Paul was an early Christian missionary and theologian whose letters form a significant portion of the New Testament and profoundly shaped Christian doctrine.
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Apostle James the Less
Apostle James the Less is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, traditionally identified as the son of Alphaeus and remembered as a close disciple present at key events in Jesus’ ministry.
- 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: Andrew the Apostle Target entity description: Andrew the Apostle was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, traditionally regarded as the first-called apostle and a key figure in early Christianity.
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A.
Apostle Peter
Apostle Peter was one of Jesus Christ’s closest disciples and a foundational leader of the early Christian Church, traditionally regarded as the first Pope.
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B.
Apostle Thomas
Apostle Thomas, also known as "Doubting Thomas," was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, best known for initially doubting Jesus’ resurrection until he personally saw and touched Christ’s wounds.
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C.
Apostle Philip
Apostle Philip was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, known from the New Testament for his role as an early follower and witness to Christ’s ministry and teachings.
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D.
Apostle Paul
Apostle Paul was an early Christian missionary and theologian whose letters form a significant portion of the New Testament and profoundly shaped Christian doctrine.
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E.
Apostle James the Less
Apostle James the Less is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, traditionally identified as the son of Alphaeus and remembered as a close disciple present at key events in Jesus’ ministry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (81)
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: Andrew the Apostle Description of subject: Andrew the Apostle was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, traditionally regarded as the first-called apostle and a key figure in early Christianity.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
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Saint Andrew the First-Called
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Andrew the First-Called
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
subject surface form:
Philip the Apostle
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the First-Called
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
subject surface form:
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Άγιος Ανδρέας ο Πρωτόκλητος
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
this entity surface form:
The Apostle Andrew
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
this entity surface form:
Saint Andrew the Apostle
this entity surface form:
Apostle Andrew