Saint Petroc
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Saint Petroc was a 6th-century Celtic Christian abbot and missionary, venerated as one of the chief saints of Cornwall and the patron saint of Bodmin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Saint Petroc canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6258845 — 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 Petroc Context triple: [Bodmin, dedicationOfParishChurch, Saint Petroc]
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Saint Piran
Saint Piran is a 5th-century Irish-born saint venerated as the patron of tin miners and one of the most important saints of Cornwall, symbolized by the black-and-white Cornish flag associated with him.
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Saint Alfege
Saint Alfege was an Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury and martyr, known for his refusal to allow a ransom to be paid for his release from Viking captors, leading to his death in 1012.
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Saint Curig
Saint Curig is a medieval Welsh saint, traditionally regarded as a missionary or church founder in Wales and remembered as the patron of several churches and localities.
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Saint Catald
Saint Catald is a 7th-century Irish monk and bishop venerated as a miracle-working saint, especially revered in southern Italy.
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Saint Chad
Saint Chad was a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop and missionary, venerated as a saint for his role in spreading Christianity in Mercia and Northumbria.
- 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 Petroc Target entity description: Saint Petroc was a 6th-century Celtic Christian abbot and missionary, venerated as one of the chief saints of Cornwall and the patron saint of Bodmin.
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A.
Saint Piran
Saint Piran is a 5th-century Irish-born saint venerated as the patron of tin miners and one of the most important saints of Cornwall, symbolized by the black-and-white Cornish flag associated with him.
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B.
Saint Alfege
Saint Alfege was an Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury and martyr, known for his refusal to allow a ransom to be paid for his release from Viking captors, leading to his death in 1012.
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C.
Saint Curig
Saint Curig is a medieval Welsh saint, traditionally regarded as a missionary or church founder in Wales and remembered as the patron of several churches and localities.
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D.
Saint Catald
Saint Catald is a 7th-century Irish monk and bishop venerated as a miracle-working saint, especially revered in southern Italy.
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E.
Saint Chad
Saint Chad was a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop and missionary, venerated as a saint for his role in spreading Christianity in Mercia and Northumbria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Petroc Description of subject: Saint Petroc was a 6th-century Celtic Christian abbot and missionary, venerated as one of the chief saints of Cornwall and the patron saint of Bodmin.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.