Mother Church of Santa Maria Maggiore
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The Mother Church of Santa Maria Maggiore is a historic main parish church in Gioia del Colle, Italy, noted for its religious significance and traditional southern Italian architecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chiesa Madre di Santa Maria Maggiore | 1 |
| Mother Church of Santa Maria Maggiore canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8056387 — 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 Church of Santa Maria Maggiore Context triple: [Gioia del Colle, hasLandmark, Mother Church of Santa Maria Maggiore]
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Basilica of Saint Mary Major
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major is one of Rome’s four major papal basilicas, renowned for its early Christian origins, rich Marian devotion, and remarkable collection of mosaics and relics.
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B.
Cathedral of Saint Mary Major
The Cathedral of Saint Mary Major is the historic Roman Catholic cathedral and oldest church in Lisbon, Portugal, serving as the city’s main religious landmark.
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C.
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
The Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls is one of Rome’s four major papal basilicas, built over the traditional burial place of the Apostle Paul and renowned for its vast neoclassical interior and historic monastic complex.
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D.
Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri
The Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri is a grand Roman Catholic church in Rome, built within the ruins of the ancient Baths of Diocletian and renowned for its Michelangelo-designed architecture and monumental meridian line.
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E.
Cathedral of Rome
The Cathedral of Rome, formally known as the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, is the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) and the oldest and highest-ranking of the major basilicas in the city.
- 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 Church of Santa Maria Maggiore Target entity description: The Mother Church of Santa Maria Maggiore is a historic main parish church in Gioia del Colle, Italy, noted for its religious significance and traditional southern Italian architecture.
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A.
Basilica of Saint Mary Major
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major is one of Rome’s four major papal basilicas, renowned for its early Christian origins, rich Marian devotion, and remarkable collection of mosaics and relics.
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B.
Cathedral of Saint Mary Major
The Cathedral of Saint Mary Major is the historic Roman Catholic cathedral and oldest church in Lisbon, Portugal, serving as the city’s main religious landmark.
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C.
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
The Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls is one of Rome’s four major papal basilicas, built over the traditional burial place of the Apostle Paul and renowned for its vast neoclassical interior and historic monastic complex.
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D.
Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri
The Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri is a grand Roman Catholic church in Rome, built within the ruins of the ancient Baths of Diocletian and renowned for its Michelangelo-designed architecture and monumental meridian line.
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E.
Cathedral of Rome
The Cathedral of Rome, formally known as the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, is the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) and the oldest and highest-ranking of the major basilicas in the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman Catholic church
ⓘ
church building ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | traditional southern Italian architecture ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Saint Mary Major
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Virgin Mary ⓘ |
| hasAltLabel | Chiesa Madre di Gioia del Colle ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType | religious building ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole |
historical monument of Gioia del Colle
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local religious center ⓘ |
| hasDenomination | Catholic ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
parish church
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place of worship ⓘ |
| hasNameInItalian |
Chiesa Madre di Santa Maria Maggiore
ⓘ
linked to:
Mother Church of Santa Maria Maggiore
|
| hasReligiousAffiliation |
Roman Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
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| heritageStatus | historic church ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gioia del Colle
ⓘ
historic center of Gioia del Colle ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Apulia
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Metropolitan City of Bari ⓘ Southern Italy ⓘ |
| significance |
main parish church of Gioia del Colle
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religious landmark of Gioia del Colle ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Catholic liturgy
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community worship ⓘ religious ceremonies ⓘ |
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: Mother Church of Santa Maria Maggiore Description of subject: The Mother Church of Santa Maria Maggiore is a historic main parish church in Gioia del Colle, Italy, noted for its religious significance and traditional southern Italian architecture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Gioia del Colle, Italy
linked to: Mother Church of Santa Maria Maggiore