Mother Teresa
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Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary renowned for her lifelong service to the poor and sick, particularly in Kolkata, India, and is widely regarded as a global symbol of compassion and charity.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mother Teresa canonical | 36 |
| Saint Teresa of Calcutta | 7 |
| Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu | 3 |
| Catholic nun and missionary Mother Teresa | 1 |
| Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu | 1 |
| Mother Teresa of Calcutta | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T82027 — 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 Teresa Context triple: [Nobel Peace Prize, notableLaureate, Mother Teresa]
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A.
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneering American social reformer, peace activist, and co-founder of Chicago’s Hull House who became one of the most influential leaders of the Progressive Era and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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B.
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for advocating girls’ right to schooling after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt.
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C.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who led the nonviolent struggle for India’s independence and became a global symbol of peaceful resistance.
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D.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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E.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy was an American religious leader and author who founded the Church of Christ, Scientist and wrote its central text, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
- 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 Teresa Target entity description: Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary renowned for her lifelong service to the poor and sick, particularly in Kolkata, India, and is widely regarded as a global symbol of compassion and charity.
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A.
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneering American social reformer, peace activist, and co-founder of Chicago’s Hull House who became one of the most influential leaders of the Progressive Era and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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B.
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for advocating girls’ right to schooling after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt.
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C.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who led the nonviolent struggle for India’s independence and became a global symbol of peaceful resistance.
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D.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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E.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy was an American religious leader and author who founded the Church of Christ, Scientist and wrote its central text, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic nun
ⓘ
human ⓘ missionary ⓘ saint ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mother Teresa
ⓘ
surface form:
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Mother Teresa ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
|
| awardReceived |
Bharat Ratna
ⓘ
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding ⓘ Nobel Peace Prize ⓘ Order of Merit ⓘ Ramon Magsaysay Award ⓘ
surface form:
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding
Templeton Prize ⓘ |
| baptismDate | 1910-08-27 ⓘ |
| beatificationDate | 2003-10-19 ⓘ |
| beatifiedBy | Pope John Paul II ⓘ |
| BharatRatnaYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1910-08-26 ⓘ |
| birthName |
Mother Teresa
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
|
| birthPlace |
Ottoman Empire
ⓘ
Skopje ⓘ present-day North Macedonia ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity, Kolkata ⓘ |
| canonizationDate | 2016-09-04 ⓘ |
| canonizedBy | Pope Francis ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
India
ⓘ
Yugoslavia ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1997-09-05 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
India
ⓘ
Calcutta ⓘ
surface form:
Kolkata
|
| ethnicGroup | Albanian ⓘ |
| familyName | Bojaxhiu ⓘ |
| founded |
Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity, Kolkata
ⓘ
surface form:
Missionaries of Charity
|
| foundingDateOfFoundedOrganization | 1950-10-07 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Mother Teresa
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Anjezë ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Albanian
ⓘ
Bengali ⓘ English ⓘ |
| motto | Do small things with great love ⓘ |
| NobelPeacePrizeYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| notableIdea | service to the poorest of the poor ⓘ |
| notableWork |
care for the sick and dying
ⓘ
charitable work among the poor in Kolkata ⓘ |
| occupation |
headmistress
ⓘ
humanitarian ⓘ missionary ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Albania
ⓘ
India ⓘ Calcutta ⓘ
surface form:
Kolkata
|
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
|
| religiousName | Teresa ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Sisters of Loreto ⓘ |
| residence |
Calcutta
ⓘ
surface form:
Kolkata
|
| veneratedIn |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
|
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 Teresa Description of subject: Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary renowned for her lifelong service to the poor and sick, particularly in Kolkata, India, and is widely regarded as a global symbol of compassion and charity.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu
this entity surface form:
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
this entity surface form:
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
this entity surface form:
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
subject surface form:
Nobel Peace Prize
subject surface form:
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
subject surface form:
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
subject surface form:
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
this entity surface form:
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
subject surface form:
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
this entity surface form:
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
subject surface form:
Mother Teresa
this entity surface form:
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
subject surface form:
Mother Teresa
this entity surface form:
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
subject surface form:
Mother Teresa
this entity surface form:
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
this entity surface form:
Catholic nun and missionary Mother Teresa
subject surface form:
Tirana International Airport
this entity surface form:
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
this entity surface form:
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
this entity surface form:
Saint Teresa of Calcutta