Mother Mary Alphonsa
E621705
Mother Mary Alphonsa was the religious name of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, an American Roman Catholic nun and social reformer who founded a community dedicated to caring for impoverished cancer patients.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mother Mary Alphonsa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6816105 — 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: Mother Mary Alphonsa Context triple: [Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, alsoKnownAs, Mother Mary Alphonsa]
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A.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
Margaret Mary Alacoque was a 17th-century French Visitation nun and mystic known for her visions of Jesus and her role in spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart in the Catholic Church.
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B.
Sister Mary Benedict
Sister Mary Benedict is the compassionate and determined nun, portrayed by Ingrid Bergman, who helps run a struggling parochial school in the classic film "The Bells of St. Mary's."
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C.
Saint Hyacintha Mariscotti
Saint Hyacintha Mariscotti was an Italian Franciscan nun of the 17th century known for her dramatic conversion from a worldly lifestyle to one of strict penance, charity, and mystical devotion.
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D.
Saint Rita of Cascia
Saint Rita of Cascia was a 15th-century Italian Augustinian nun venerated in the Catholic Church as the patron saint of impossible causes, difficult marriages, and abused wives.
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E.
Saint Rose of Lima
Saint Rose of Lima was a 17th-century Peruvian laywoman of the Dominican Order, venerated as the first Catholic saint of the Americas and renowned for her extreme piety and care for the poor.
- 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: Mother Mary Alphonsa Target entity description: Mother Mary Alphonsa was the religious name of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, an American Roman Catholic nun and social reformer who founded a community dedicated to caring for impoverished cancer patients.
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A.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
Margaret Mary Alacoque was a 17th-century French Visitation nun and mystic known for her visions of Jesus and her role in spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart in the Catholic Church.
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B.
Sister Mary Benedict
Sister Mary Benedict is the compassionate and determined nun, portrayed by Ingrid Bergman, who helps run a struggling parochial school in the classic film "The Bells of St. Mary's."
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C.
Saint Hyacintha Mariscotti
Saint Hyacintha Mariscotti was an Italian Franciscan nun of the 17th century known for her dramatic conversion from a worldly lifestyle to one of strict penance, charity, and mystical devotion.
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D.
Saint Rita of Cascia
Saint Rita of Cascia was a 15th-century Italian Augustinian nun venerated in the Catholic Church as the patron saint of impossible causes, difficult marriages, and abused wives.
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E.
Saint Rose of Lima
Saint Rose of Lima was a 17th-century Peruvian laywoman of the Dominican Order, venerated as the first Catholic saint of the Americas and renowned for her extreme piety and care for the poor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman Catholic nun
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founder of religious institute ⓘ human ⓘ social reformer ⓘ |
| birthName | Rose Hawthorne Lathrop ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Hawthorne
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Lathrop ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
health care for the poor
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religious life ⓘ social welfare ⓘ |
| founded |
Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne
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Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Rose ⓘ |
| hasCause | charitable care for cancer patients ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Mother superior
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foundress ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Catholic social reform ⓘ |
| notableFor |
care of impoverished cancer patients
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establishing free homes for incurable cancer patients ⓘ |
| notableWork | founding a community for impoverished cancer patients ⓘ |
| occupation |
nun
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social reformer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholic Church
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linked to:
Roman Catholicism
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| religiousName | Mother Mary Alphonsa ⓘ |
| religiousOrder |
Dominican Order
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linked to:
Dominican friars
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Mother Mary Alphonsa Description of subject: Mother Mary Alphonsa was the religious name of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, an American Roman Catholic nun and social reformer who founded a community dedicated to caring for impoverished cancer patients.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.