Holy Grail
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The Holy Grail is a legendary sacred object in Christian and Arthurian tradition, often depicted as the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and later sought as a symbol of divine grace and ultimate truth.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holy Grail canonical | 31 |
| The Holy Grail | 3 |
| Holy Grail legends | 2 |
| Holy Grail quest | 1 |
| Knights of the Holy Grail | 1 |
| Quest for the Holy Grail | 1 |
| the Holy Grail | 1 |
| the Quest for the Holy Grail | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577954 — 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: Holy Grail Context triple: [The Da Vinci Code, mainSubject, Holy Grail]
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A.
Excalibur
Excalibur is the legendary sword of King Arthur, often depicted as a symbol of divine kingship and magical power in Arthurian mythology.
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B.
Green Knight
The Green Knight is a mysterious, supernatural challenger in Arthurian legend whose beheading game with Sir Gawain tests the knight’s honor and courage.
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C.
The Master
The Master is a recurring villainous Time Lord in the Doctor Who universe, known as the Doctor’s archenemy and a manipulative mastermind bent on chaos and domination.
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D.
Holy Mountain
Holy Mountain is the traditional name for Mount Athos, a monastic peninsula in northeastern Greece renowned as a major center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism and spirituality.
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E.
Inter Mirifica
Inter Mirifica is a decree of the Second Vatican Council that addresses the role, responsibilities, and moral use of social communications media in the life of the Church and society.
- 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: Holy Grail Target entity description: The Holy Grail is a legendary sacred object in Christian and Arthurian tradition, often depicted as the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and later sought as a symbol of divine grace and ultimate truth.
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A.
Excalibur
Excalibur is the legendary sword of King Arthur, often depicted as a symbol of divine kingship and magical power in Arthurian mythology.
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B.
Green Knight
The Green Knight is a mysterious, supernatural challenger in Arthurian legend whose beheading game with Sir Gawain tests the knight’s honor and courage.
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C.
The Master
The Master is a recurring villainous Time Lord in the Doctor Who universe, known as the Doctor’s archenemy and a manipulative mastermind bent on chaos and domination.
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D.
Holy Mountain
Holy Mountain is the traditional name for Mount Athos, a monastic peninsula in northeastern Greece renowned as a major center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism and spirituality.
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E.
Inter Mirifica
Inter Mirifica is a decree of the Second Vatican Council that addresses the role, responsibilities, and moral use of social communications media in the life of the Church and society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arthurian motif
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Christian relic ⓘ legendary object ⓘ symbolic object ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Arthurian legend
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Crucifixion of Jesus GENERATED ⓘ Galahad GENERATED ⓘ Jesus GENERATED ⓘ Joseph of Arimathea GENERATED ⓘ King Arthur GENERATED ⓘ Knights of the Round Table GENERATED ⓘ Last Supper GENERATED ⓘ Parsifal GENERATED ⓘ Perceval GENERATED ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
chalice
GENERATED
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cup GENERATED ⓘ dish GENERATED ⓘ stone GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstAttestedCentury | 12th century GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstAttestedIn | Chrétien de Troyes' "Perceval, le Conte du Graal" GENERATED ⓘ |
| geographicAssociation |
Britain
GENERATED
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Glastonbury GENERATED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christian mysticism
GENERATED
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Western literature GENERATED ⓘ modern fantasy GENERATED ⓘ popular culture GENERATED ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | Arthurian romance GENERATED ⓘ |
| mythologicalStatus | apocryphal GENERATED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
object of a quest
GENERATED
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sacred relic GENERATED ⓘ test of worthiness GENERATED ⓘ |
| originatesIn | medieval literature GENERATED ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Holy Chalice
GENERATED
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Sangreal GENERATED ⓘ relics of Jesus GENERATED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| soughtBy |
Galahad
GENERATED
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Knights of the Round Table GENERATED ⓘ Lancelot GENERATED ⓘ Perceval GENERATED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
divine grace
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eternal life GENERATED ⓘ purity GENERATED ⓘ quest for God GENERATED ⓘ salvation GENERATED ⓘ spiritual enlightenment GENERATED ⓘ ultimate truth GENERATED ⓘ |
| usedAsMetaphorFor |
difficult but noble goal
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long-sought solution GENERATED ⓘ ultimate achievement GENERATED ⓘ |
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: Holy Grail Description of subject: The Holy Grail is a legendary sacred object in Christian and Arthurian tradition, often depicted as the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and later sought as a symbol of divine grace and ultimate truth.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Holy Grail quest
this entity surface form:
the Holy Grail
this entity surface form:
the Quest for the Holy Grail
this entity surface form:
Quest for the Holy Grail
this entity surface form:
Holy Grail legends
this entity surface form:
Holy Grail legends
this entity surface form:
The Holy Grail
this entity surface form:
The Holy Grail
subject surface form:
Guinevere (poem)
this entity surface form:
The Holy Grail
this entity surface form:
Knights of the Holy Grail