Ivan Rilski
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Ivan Rilski, better known as Saint John of Rila, is the patron saint of Bulgaria and a revered 10th-century hermit and founder of the Rila Monastery.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ivan Rilski canonical | 1 |
| St Ivan Rilski | 1 |
| St. Ivan Rilski | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5806080 — 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: Ivan Rilski Context triple: [Saint John of Rila, alsoKnownAs, Ivan Rilski]
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A.
Ivan Starov
Ivan Starov was a prominent 18th-century Russian neoclassical architect known for designing major landmarks in St. Petersburg and other parts of the Russian Empire.
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B.
Alexander Toshev
Alexander Toshev is a computer scientist known for his contributions to computer vision and deep learning, including influential work on object detection.
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C.
Neofit Rilski
Neofit Rilski was a prominent 19th-century Bulgarian monk, educator, and linguist who played a crucial role in modernizing Bulgarian education and language during the National Revival period.
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D.
Ivan Sratsimir
Ivan Sratsimir was a 14th-century Bulgarian tsar who ruled the Vidin-based western part of the fragmented Second Bulgarian Empire during its final decades before Ottoman conquest.
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E.
Ivan Kliun
Ivan Kliun was a Russian avant-garde painter and sculptor closely associated with Kazimir Malevich and the development of Suprematism in early 20th-century abstract art.
- 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: Ivan Rilski Target entity description: Ivan Rilski, better known as Saint John of Rila, is the patron saint of Bulgaria and a revered 10th-century hermit and founder of the Rila Monastery.
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A.
Ivan Starov
Ivan Starov was a prominent 18th-century Russian neoclassical architect known for designing major landmarks in St. Petersburg and other parts of the Russian Empire.
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B.
Alexander Toshev
Alexander Toshev is a computer scientist known for his contributions to computer vision and deep learning, including influential work on object detection.
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C.
Neofit Rilski
Neofit Rilski was a prominent 19th-century Bulgarian monk, educator, and linguist who played a crucial role in modernizing Bulgarian education and language during the National Revival period.
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D.
Ivan Sratsimir
Ivan Sratsimir was a 14th-century Bulgarian tsar who ruled the Vidin-based western part of the fragmented Second Bulgarian Empire during its final decades before Ottoman conquest.
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E.
Ivan Kliun
Ivan Kliun was a Russian avant-garde painter and sculptor closely associated with Kazimir Malevich and the development of Suprematism in early 20th-century abstract art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bulgarian saint
ⓘ
Christian saint ⓘ founder of monastery ⓘ hermit ⓘ monk ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
John of Rila
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint John of Rila
Saint John of Rila ⓘ St. Ivan Rilski ⓘ
linked to:
Ivan Rilski
St. John of Rila ⓘ
linked to:
Saint John of Rila
|
| associatedWithEthnicGroup | Bulgarians ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Rila Monastery
ⓘ
Rila Mountains ⓘ |
| birthPlace | region of Sredets (near Sofia) ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | canonized saint ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 10th century ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Rila Monastery Church of St. Ivan of Rila
ⓘ
linked to:
Rila Monastery
numerous churches in Bulgaria ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | First Bulgarian Empire ⓘ |
| feastDay |
1 July
ⓘ
18 August ⓘ 19 October ⓘ |
| founded | Rila Monastery ⓘ |
| hasRelicLocation |
Rila Monastery
ⓘ
Sofia ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Saint ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bulgarian Orthodox spirituality
ⓘ
Bulgarian monastic tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Bulgarian ⓘ |
| movement | Christian monasticism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the patron saint of Bulgaria
ⓘ
eremitic life in the Rila Mountains ⓘ founding the Rila Monastery ⓘ |
| occupation |
hermit
ⓘ
monk ⓘ |
| patronSaintOf | Bulgaria ⓘ |
| placeOfVeneration |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Bulgarian Orthodox Church ⓘ Eastern Orthodox Church ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Lutheran Church ⓘ
linked to:
Lutheranism
Rila Monastery ⓘ Roman Catholic Church ⓘ
linked to:
Catholic Church worldwide
|
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox Church ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
|
| title | Wonderworker of Bulgaria ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Bulgaria
ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox countries ⓘ |
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: Ivan Rilski Description of subject: Ivan Rilski, better known as Saint John of Rila, is the patron saint of Bulgaria and a revered 10th-century hermit and founder of the Rila Monastery.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ivan Rilski