Albert the Great
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Albert the Great was a 13th-century Dominican scholar, philosopher, and bishop renowned for his comprehensive knowledge of natural science and theology and as the teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Albertus Magnus | 14 |
| Albert the Great canonical | 10 |
| Saint Albert the Great | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T366428 — 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.
Target entity: Albert the Great Context triple: [Dominican friars, notableTheologianTradition, Albert the Great]
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St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas was a 13th-century Dominican friar, theologian, and philosopher whose synthesis of Christian doctrine with Aristotelian philosophy made him one of the most influential thinkers in Western intellectual and religious history.
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B.
Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi was a seminal medieval Sufi mystic, philosopher, and poet whose metaphysical teachings, especially the doctrine of the "Unity of Being," profoundly shaped Islamic spirituality and thought.
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C.
Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury was an 11th-century Benedictine monk, philosopher, and Archbishop of Canterbury, renowned as a foundational figure in scholastic theology and for formulating influential arguments about God’s existence and the nature of salvation.
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Plotinus
Plotinus was a major ancient philosopher and founder of Neoplatonism, whose metaphysical system deeply shaped later pagan, Christian, and Islamic thought.
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E.
Maimonides
Maimonides was a medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar, and physician whose works, especially "The Guide for the Perplexed," profoundly shaped Jewish thought and influenced later rationalist philosophers.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Albert the Great Target entity description: Albert the Great was a 13th-century Dominican scholar, philosopher, and bishop renowned for his comprehensive knowledge of natural science and theology and as the teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
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A.
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas was a 13th-century Dominican friar, theologian, and philosopher whose synthesis of Christian doctrine with Aristotelian philosophy made him one of the most influential thinkers in Western intellectual and religious history.
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B.
Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi was a seminal medieval Sufi mystic, philosopher, and poet whose metaphysical teachings, especially the doctrine of the "Unity of Being," profoundly shaped Islamic spirituality and thought.
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C.
Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury was an 11th-century Benedictine monk, philosopher, and Archbishop of Canterbury, renowned as a foundational figure in scholastic theology and for formulating influential arguments about God’s existence and the nature of salvation.
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Plotinus
Plotinus was a major ancient philosopher and founder of Neoplatonism, whose metaphysical system deeply shaped later pagan, Christian, and Islamic thought.
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E.
Maimonides
Maimonides was a medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar, and physician whose works, especially "The Guide for the Perplexed," profoundly shaped Jewish thought and influenced later rationalist philosophers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic saint
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Doctor of the Church ⓘ Dominican friar ⓘ bishop ⓘ human ⓘ medieval philosopher ⓘ natural philosopher ⓘ philosopher ⓘ scholar ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Duchy of Bavaria
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Holy Roman Empire ⓘ Lauingen ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | canonized saint ⓘ |
| canonizedBy | Pope Pius XI ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Bishopric of Cologne
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surface form:
Archbishopric of Cologne
Cologne ⓘ Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Padua
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Panthéon-Sorbonne University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Paris
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| era | 13th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
alchemy
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astronomy ⓘ botany ⓘ ethics ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ natural science ⓘ philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ zoology ⓘ |
| hasName |
Albert of Cologne
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Albert of Cologne ⓘ
surface form:
Albert of Lauingen
Albert the Great self-link ⓘ Albert the Great self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Albertus Magnus
Albert the Great self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Albert the Great
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| knownFor |
comprehensive knowledge of natural science
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comprehensive knowledge of theology ⓘ integrating Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology ⓘ teaching Thomas Aquinas ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Order of Preachers
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surface form:
Dominican Order
Order of Preachers ⓘ |
| movement |
Scholastic theology
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surface form:
Scholasticism
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| notableStudent |
St. Thomas Aquinas
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surface form:
Thomas Aquinas
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| notableWork |
Commentaries on Aristotle
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Commentary on the Sentences ⓘ
surface form:
Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
De animalibus ⓘ Summa Theologiae ⓘ
surface form:
Summa theologiae (Albert)
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| occupation |
bishop
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philosopher ⓘ scientist ⓘ teacher ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| patronage |
natural scientists
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philosophers ⓘ students of the natural sciences ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Bishop of Regensburg
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professor at the University of Paris ⓘ regent master in theology ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| veneratedIn |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| workLocation |
Cologne
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Paris ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: Albert the Great Description of subject: Albert the Great was a 13th-century Dominican scholar, philosopher, and bishop renowned for his comprehensive knowledge of natural science and theology and as the teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.