Marriage Office
E49140
The Marriage Office is a section of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith responsible for handling doctrinal and canonical matters related to marriage within the Catholic Church.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marriage Office canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T388946 — 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: Marriage Office Context triple: [Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, hasSection, Marriage Office]
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A.
General Directorate of Civil Status
The General Directorate of Civil Status is the Egyptian government authority responsible for managing citizens’ civil records, including births, deaths, marriages, and national identification documents.
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B.
Great Office of State
The Great Offices of State are the most senior and historically significant ministerial positions in the UK government, traditionally including the Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and Home Secretary.
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C.
Domestic Relations Division
The Domestic Relations Division is a specialized branch of the Circuit Court of Cook County that handles family law matters such as divorce, child custody, and support.
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D.
Civil Status Organization of Egypt
The Civil Status Organization of Egypt is the national authority responsible for registering and managing citizens’ vital records and personal identification data.
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E.
Department of Home
The Department of Home is a key administrative division within India’s Ministry of Home Affairs responsible for internal security, law and order, and related domestic governance functions.
- 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: Marriage Office Target entity description: The Marriage Office is a section of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith responsible for handling doctrinal and canonical matters related to marriage within the Catholic Church.
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A.
General Directorate of Civil Status
The General Directorate of Civil Status is the Egyptian government authority responsible for managing citizens’ civil records, including births, deaths, marriages, and national identification documents.
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B.
Great Office of State
The Great Offices of State are the most senior and historically significant ministerial positions in the UK government, traditionally including the Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and Home Secretary.
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C.
Domestic Relations Division
The Domestic Relations Division is a specialized branch of the Circuit Court of Cook County that handles family law matters such as divorce, child custody, and support.
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D.
Civil Status Organization of Egypt
The Civil Status Organization of Egypt is the national authority responsible for registering and managing citizens’ vital records and personal identification data.
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E.
Department of Home
The Department of Home is a key administrative division within India’s Ministry of Home Affairs responsible for internal security, law and order, and related domestic governance functions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
office of the Roman Curia
ⓘ
section of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ⓘ |
| appliesDoctrine | Catholic doctrine on marriage ⓘ |
| appliesLaw |
Code of Canon Law (1983)
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surface form:
Code of Canon Law
Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
diocesan bishops
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episcopal conferences ⓘ tribunals of the Catholic Church ⓘ |
| goal |
ensuring correct application of marriage canons
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safeguarding the Catholic doctrine on marriage ⓘ |
| handles |
consultations from bishops on marriage questions
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doctrinal dubia concerning marriage ⓘ petitions related to marriage doctrine ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
|
| languageOfWork |
Italian
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ other major languages of the Catholic Church ⓘ |
| location | Vatican City ⓘ |
| oversees | observance of canonical norms on marriage ⓘ |
| partOf |
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
ⓘ
Roman Curia ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| responsibleFor |
canonical matters related to marriage
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doctrinal matters related to marriage ⓘ questions concerning canonical form of marriage ⓘ questions concerning convalidation of marriage ⓘ questions concerning disparity of cult ⓘ questions concerning dissolution of the bond in favorem fidei ⓘ questions concerning dissolution of the bond in favorem sacramenti ⓘ questions concerning impediments to marriage ⓘ questions concerning marriage and moral doctrine ⓘ questions concerning marriage and the reception of the sacraments ⓘ questions concerning marriage of catechumens ⓘ questions concerning marriage of the baptized with the unbaptized ⓘ questions concerning matrimonial consent ⓘ questions concerning mixed marriages ⓘ questions concerning sanatio in radice ⓘ questions concerning separation of spouses ⓘ questions concerning the indissolubility of marriage ⓘ questions concerning the sacramentality of marriage ⓘ questions concerning the validity of marriage ⓘ |
| subjectTo | authority of the Pope ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ⓘ |
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: Marriage Office Description of subject: The Marriage Office is a section of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith responsible for handling doctrinal and canonical matters related to marriage within the Catholic Church.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith