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 (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holy Grail canonical | 75 |
| The Holy Grail | 3 |
| Holy Grail legends | 2 |
| the Holy Grail | 2 |
| Holy Grail quest | 1 |
| Holy Grail vision | 1 |
| Knights of the Holy Grail | 1 |
| Quest for the Holy Grail | 1 |
| the Holy Grail quest | 1 |
| the Quest for the Holy Grail | 1 |
| wish-granting 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 ⓘ Galahad ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Galahad
Jesus ⓘ Joseph of Arimathea ⓘ King Arthur ⓘ Knights of the Round Table ⓘ Last Supper ⓘ Parsifal ⓘ Perceval ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
chalice
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cup ⓘ dish ⓘ stone ⓘ |
| firstAttestedCentury | 12th century ⓘ |
| firstAttestedIn |
Chrétien de Troyes' "Perceval, le Conte du Graal"
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linked to:
Perceval, le Conte du Graal
|
| geographicAssociation |
Britain
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linked to:
Great Britain
Glastonbury ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christian mysticism
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Western literature ⓘ
linked to:
Western canon
modern fantasy ⓘ popular culture ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
Arthurian romance
ⓘ
linked to:
Arthurian legend
|
| mythologicalStatus | apocryphal ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
object of a quest
ⓘ
sacred relic ⓘ test of worthiness ⓘ |
| originatesIn | medieval literature ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Holy Chalice
ⓘ
linked to:
Holy Chalice of Valencia
Sangreal ⓘ relics of Jesus ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| soughtBy |
Galahad
ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Galahad
Knights of the Round Table ⓘ Lancelot ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Lancelot
Perceval ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
divine grace
ⓘ
eternal life ⓘ purity ⓘ quest for God ⓘ salvation ⓘ spiritual enlightenment ⓘ ultimate truth ⓘ |
| usedAsMetaphorFor |
difficult but noble goal
ⓘ
long-sought solution ⓘ ultimate achievement ⓘ |
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 (89)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "Guinevere"
linked to: Holy Grail
linked to: Holy Grail
subject linked to:
the Judas Chalice