Rick Warren
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Rick Warren is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author best known for founding Saddleback Church and writing the bestselling book "The Purpose Driven Life."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rick Warren canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4939177 — 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: Rick Warren Context triple: [Warren, hasNotableBearer, Rick Warren]
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A.
Sam Storms
Sam Storms is an American pastor, theologian, and author known for his writings on Reformed theology, Christian spirituality, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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B.
Paul David Tripp
Paul David Tripp is a Christian pastor, counselor, and author known for his gospel-centered books on Christian living, parenting, and pastoral ministry.
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C.
John MacArthur
John MacArthur is an American Reformed evangelical pastor, author, and Bible teacher known for his expository preaching and extensive theological writings.
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D.
Joshua Harris
Joshua Harris is an American billionaire investor and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management and an owner of major professional sports franchises.
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E.
Timothy Keller
Timothy Keller was an American pastor, theologian, and author best known as the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and a leading voice in contemporary Reformed evangelicalism.
- 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: Rick Warren Target entity description: Rick Warren is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author best known for founding Saddleback Church and writing the bestselling book "The Purpose Driven Life."
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A.
Sam Storms
Sam Storms is an American pastor, theologian, and author known for his writings on Reformed theology, Christian spirituality, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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B.
Paul David Tripp
Paul David Tripp is a Christian pastor, counselor, and author known for his gospel-centered books on Christian living, parenting, and pastoral ministry.
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C.
John MacArthur
John MacArthur is an American Reformed evangelical pastor, author, and Bible teacher known for his expository preaching and extensive theological writings.
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D.
Joshua Harris
Joshua Harris is an American billionaire investor and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management and an owner of major professional sports franchises.
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E.
Timothy Keller
Timothy Keller was an American pastor, theologian, and author best known as the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and a leading voice in contemporary Reformed evangelicalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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evangelical Christian pastor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-01-28 ⓘ |
| denomination |
Evangelicalism
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Southern Baptist Convention NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
California Baptist University
NERFINISHED
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Fuller Theological Seminary NERFINISHED ⓘ Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Christian discipleship
ⓘ
church growth ⓘ pastoral ministry ⓘ |
| founded |
P.E.A.C.E. Plan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pastors.com NERFINISHED ⓘ Saddleback Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Richard Duane Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | Christian literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Amy Warren
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Josh Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonor | appeared on Time 100 list of most influential people ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding Saddleback Church
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writing "The Purpose Driven Life" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Southern Baptist Convention NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Purpose Driven movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableIdea | purpose-driven church model ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"The Purpose Driven Church"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
"The Purpose Driven Life" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
evangelist ⓘ pastor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Jose, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founding pastor of Saddleback Church ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Orange County, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Kay Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1980 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | "The Purpose Driven Life" global church campaigns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website |
https://pastors.com
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https://saddleback.com ⓘ |
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: Rick Warren Description of subject: Rick Warren is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author best known for founding Saddleback Church and writing the bestselling book "The Purpose Driven Life."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.