Saint Mary
E46518
Saint Mary is a central figure in Christianity, revered as the mother of Jesus Christ and honored as a model of faith and purity in numerous traditions and churches worldwide.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Mary canonical | 362 |
| Our Lady, Star of the Sea | 2 |
| Saint Mary the Virgin | 2 |
| Mary, Star of the Sea | 1 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes | 1 |
| Saint | 1 |
| Virgin most renowned | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T367444 — 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: Saint Mary Context triple: [St Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury, dedicatedTo, Saint Mary]
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A.
Saint Catherine
Saint Catherine is a town in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula best known as the gateway to Mount Sinai and the historic Saint Catherine’s Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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B.
St John’s
St John’s is a residential and commercial district within the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.
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C.
Isabel Carnes Church
Isabel Carnes Church was the wife of prominent American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and a member of the social circle surrounding the Hudson River School.
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D.
St. Anne Skete
St. Anne Skete is an Eastern Orthodox monastic community on Mount Athos in Greece, known for its ascetic tradition and devotion to Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.
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E.
Saint Thomas
Saint Thomas is a major Caribbean island known for its bustling port city of Charlotte Amalie, popular beaches, and role as a tourism and commercial hub of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- 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: Saint Mary Target entity description: Saint Mary is a central figure in Christianity, revered as the mother of Jesus Christ and honored as a model of faith and purity in numerous traditions and churches worldwide.
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A.
Saint Catherine
Saint Catherine is a town in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula best known as the gateway to Mount Sinai and the historic Saint Catherine’s Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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B.
St John’s
St John’s is a residential and commercial district within the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.
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C.
Isabel Carnes Church
Isabel Carnes Church was the wife of prominent American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and a member of the social circle surrounding the Hudson River School.
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D.
St. Anne Skete
St. Anne Skete is an Eastern Orthodox monastic community on Mount Athos in Greece, known for its ascetic tradition and devotion to Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.
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E.
Saint Thomas
Saint Thomas is a major Caribbean island known for its bustling port city of Charlotte Amalie, popular beaches, and role as a tourism and commercial hub of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian saint
ⓘ
New Testament person ⓘ biblical person ⓘ religious figure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Virgin Mary
ⓘ
surface form:
Blessed Virgin Mary
Madonna ⓘ Virgin Mary ⓘ
surface form:
Mary, mother of Jesus
Virgin Mary ⓘ
surface form:
Mother of God
Our Lady of Nazareth ⓘ
surface form:
Our Lady
Virgin Mary ⓘ
surface form:
Theotokos
|
| associatedEvent |
Annunciation
ⓘ
Crucifixion of Jesus ⓘ Nativity of Christ ⓘ
surface form:
Nativity of Jesus
Pentecost ⓘ Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple ⓘ
surface form:
Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
|
| devotion |
Angelus
ⓘ
Marian consecration ⓘ Rosary ⓘ |
| doctrine |
Assumption of Mary
ⓘ
Immaculate Conception ⓘ Perpetual Virginity of Mary ⓘ Virgin Birth of Jesus ⓘ |
| family |
mother of Jesus
ⓘ
spouse of Saint Joseph ⓘ |
| feast |
Annunciation
ⓘ
surface form:
Annunciation of the Lord
Assumption of Mary ⓘ Immaculate Conception ⓘ Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos ⓘ
surface form:
Nativity of Mary
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God ⓘ |
| honoredAs |
patroness of many countries
ⓘ
patroness of various religious orders ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Acts of the Apostles
ⓘ
Gospel of John ⓘ Gospel of Luke ⓘ Gospel of Mark ⓘ Gospel of Matthew ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| role |
intercessor
ⓘ
model of faith ⓘ model of purity ⓘ mother of Jesus Christ ⓘ |
| symbol |
blue mantle
ⓘ
lily ⓘ rose ⓘ |
| title |
Ever-Virgin
ⓘ
Mother of the Church ⓘ Queen of Heaven ⓘ Virgin Mary ⓘ
surface form:
Theotokos (God-bearer)
|
| veneratedIn |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Coptic Orthodox Church ⓘ Eastern Catholic Churches ⓘ Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ⓘ Lutheranism ⓘ
surface form:
Lutheran Churches
Oriental Orthodoxy ⓘ
surface form:
Oriental Orthodox Churches
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
Syriac Churches ⓘ |
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: Saint Mary Description of subject: Saint Mary is a central figure in Christianity, revered as the mother of Jesus Christ and honored as a model of faith and purity in numerous traditions and churches worldwide.
Referenced by (370)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Lourdes
subject surface form:
Symeon the New Theologian
this entity surface form:
Saint
this entity surface form:
Saint Mary the Virgin
this entity surface form:
Our Lady, Star of the Sea
this entity surface form:
Our Lady, Star of the Sea
this entity surface form:
Virgin most renowned
this entity surface form:
Saint Mary the Virgin
subject surface form:
Santa Maria, California