Saint David
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Saint David is a 6th-century Welsh bishop and monk revered as the national patron saint of Wales, celebrated for his piety, monastic foundations, and the annual feast day of St David’s Day on March 1st.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint David canonical | 28 |
| Saint David (in some later tradition) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T490821 — 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 David Context triple: [Wales, patronSaint, Saint David]
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A.
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick is the 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland and later venerated as the country’s patron saint.
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B.
Saint Andrew
Saint Andrew is a Christian apostle venerated as the patron saint of countries such as Scotland, Greece, and Romania, often symbolized by the diagonal cross on which he was martyred.
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C.
St. George
St. George is a waterfront neighborhood on the northeastern tip of Staten Island in New York City, known for its ferry terminal, civic buildings, and views of the Manhattan skyline.
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Saint David's Day
Saint David's Day is the annual Welsh cultural and religious celebration held on 1 March in honor of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales.
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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
- 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 David Target entity description: Saint David is a 6th-century Welsh bishop and monk revered as the national patron saint of Wales, celebrated for his piety, monastic foundations, and the annual feast day of St David’s Day on March 1st.
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A.
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick is the 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland and later venerated as the country’s patron saint.
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B.
Saint Andrew
Saint Andrew is a Christian apostle venerated as the patron saint of countries such as Scotland, Greece, and Romania, often symbolized by the diagonal cross on which he was martyred.
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C.
St. George
St. George is a waterfront neighborhood on the northeastern tip of Staten Island in New York City, known for its ferry terminal, civic buildings, and views of the Manhattan skyline.
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D.
Saint David's Day
Saint David's Day is the annual Welsh cultural and religious celebration held on 1 March in honor of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales.
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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 (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian saint
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bishop ⓘ monk ⓘ national symbol of Wales ⓘ patron saint ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Celtic monasticism ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Menevia
ⓘ
St Davids ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 500 ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 6th century ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| commemoratedOn |
Saint David's Day
ⓘ
surface form:
St David’s Day
|
| countryOfVeneration | Wales ⓘ |
| deathDate | c. 589 ⓘ |
| denomination | Celtic Christianity ⓘ |
| feastDay | 1 March ⓘ |
| founded |
monastery at Menevia
ⓘ
monastery at St Davids ⓘ |
| hasLegend |
miracle of restoring sight to a blind man
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miracle of the ground rising beneath him while preaching ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Saint ⓘ |
| influenced | early Welsh Christianity ⓘ |
| knownFor |
asceticism
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miracles ⓘ monastic foundations ⓘ piety ⓘ preaching ⓘ |
| languageOfVeneration |
Latin
ⓘ
Welsh ⓘ |
| liturgicalColor | white ⓘ |
| nationalPatronSaintOf | Wales ⓘ |
| occupation |
abbot
ⓘ
bishop ⓘ monk ⓘ |
| patronage |
Wales
ⓘ
Welsh people ⓘ doves ⓘ poets ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wales ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Wales ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| symbol |
bishop’s staff
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dove ⓘ leek ⓘ |
| teaches | austere monastic rule ⓘ |
| veneratedAs | archbishop of the Welsh ⓘ |
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 David Description of subject: Saint David is a 6th-century Welsh bishop and monk revered as the national patron saint of Wales, celebrated for his piety, monastic foundations, and the annual feast day of St David’s Day on March 1st.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Saint David (in some later tradition)