Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota
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The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations and ministries throughout the state of Minnesota.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T522691 — 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: Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Context triple: [Province VI, hasDiocese, Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota]
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A.
Episcopal Diocese of Iowa
The Episcopal Diocese of Iowa is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations and ministries throughout the state of Iowa.
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B.
Episcopal Diocese of Rochester
The Episcopal Diocese of Rochester is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, centered in western New York and overseeing local Episcopal congregations and ministries in that area.
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C.
Episcopal Diocese of Maine
The Episcopal Diocese of Maine is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing and overseeing Episcopal congregations throughout the state of Maine.
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D.
Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries throughout the state of Vermont.
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E.
Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing and serving Episcopal congregations throughout the state of New Hampshire.
- 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: Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Target entity description: The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations and ministries throughout the state of Minnesota.
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A.
Episcopal Diocese of Iowa
The Episcopal Diocese of Iowa is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations and ministries throughout the state of Iowa.
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B.
Episcopal Diocese of Rochester
The Episcopal Diocese of Rochester is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, centered in western New York and overseeing local Episcopal congregations and ministries in that area.
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C.
Episcopal Diocese of Maine
The Episcopal Diocese of Maine is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing and overseeing Episcopal congregations throughout the state of Maine.
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D.
Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries throughout the state of Vermont.
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E.
Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing and serving Episcopal congregations throughout the state of New Hampshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian religious jurisdiction
ⓘ
Episcopal diocese ⓘ |
| affiliation |
National Council of Churches
ⓘ
surface form:
National Council of Churches (through the Episcopal Church)
World Council of Churches ⓘ
surface form:
World Council of Churches (through the Episcopal Church)
|
| cathedralCity |
Faribault, Minnesota
ⓘ
Minneapolis ⓘ
surface form:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
| ChristianDenominationBranch | mainline Protestantism ⓘ |
| communion | Anglican Communion ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| denomination |
Episcopal Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Episcopal Church (United States)
|
| episcopalSee | Minnesota ⓘ |
| established | 1857 ⓘ |
| firstBishop | Henry Benjamin Whipple ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Episcopal Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Episcopal Church (United States)
|
| governedBy |
bishop
ⓘ
Diocesan convention ⓘ
surface form:
diocesan council
standing committee ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Diocesan convention
ⓘ
surface form:
Diocesan Convention of Minnesota
|
| hasBishop | Craig Loya ⓘ |
| hasCathedral |
Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour
ⓘ
St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral ⓘ |
| hasClergyType |
bishops
ⓘ
deacons ⓘ priests ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver | Episcopal congregations in Minnesota ⓘ |
| hasLayMinistry | lay leaders in congregations ⓘ |
| hasMinistry |
Native American ministries
ⓘ
camp and conference ministries ⓘ campus ministries ⓘ social justice ministries ⓘ |
| hasMission | Christian worship and ministry in Minnesota ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Minneapolis
ⓘ
surface form:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition | mainline Anglican ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Minnesota ⓘ |
| numberOfCongregations | over 100 ⓘ |
| oversightOf |
diocesan outreach and advocacy programs
ⓘ
diocesan youth ministries ⓘ diocesan-level Christian formation programs ⓘ ordination process for clergy in Minnesota ⓘ |
| partOf |
Province 6 of the Episcopal Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Province VI of the Episcopal Church (United States)
|
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| rite | Anglican liturgical rite ⓘ |
| territory |
Minnesota
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Minnesota
|
| usesBook |
Book of Common Prayer
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal Church)
|
| website | https://episcopalmn.org ⓘ |
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: Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Description of subject: The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations and ministries throughout the state of Minnesota.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.