Avery Dulles
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Avery Dulles was an American Jesuit priest, eminent Catholic theologian, and the first U.S.-born theologian to be made a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
All labels observed (1)
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| Avery Dulles canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9432022 — 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: Avery Dulles Context triple: [Dulles, notableBearer, Avery Dulles]
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John Courtney Murray
John Courtney Murray was an American Jesuit priest and theologian best known for shaping modern Catholic thought on religious freedom and church–state relations, particularly through his influence on the Second Vatican Council.
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B.
Raymond E. Brown
Raymond E. Brown was a prominent 20th-century American Catholic biblical scholar renowned for his influential work on the Gospel of John and the Johannine community.
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C.
Robert F. Goheen
Robert F. Goheen was an American classicist and academic leader best known for serving as the transformative 16th president of Princeton University from 1957 to 1972.
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D.
Ralph McInerny
Ralph McInerny was an American philosopher, Thomist scholar, and novelist best known for his work on medieval philosophy and his long tenure teaching at the University of Notre Dame.
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E.
Edward Schillebeeckx
Edward Schillebeeckx was a prominent 20th-century Belgian Dominican theologian known for his influential contributions to Catholic theology, especially in Christology and ecclesiology, and for his role in the theological developments surrounding the Second Vatican Council.
- 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: Avery Dulles Target entity description: Avery Dulles was an American Jesuit priest, eminent Catholic theologian, and the first U.S.-born theologian to be made a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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A.
John Courtney Murray
John Courtney Murray was an American Jesuit priest and theologian best known for shaping modern Catholic thought on religious freedom and church–state relations, particularly through his influence on the Second Vatican Council.
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B.
Raymond E. Brown
Raymond E. Brown was a prominent 20th-century American Catholic biblical scholar renowned for his influential work on the Gospel of John and the Johannine community.
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C.
Robert F. Goheen
Robert F. Goheen was an American classicist and academic leader best known for serving as the transformative 16th president of Princeton University from 1957 to 1972.
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D.
Ralph McInerny
Ralph McInerny was an American philosopher, Thomist scholar, and novelist best known for his work on medieval philosophy and his long tenure teaching at the University of Notre Dame.
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E.
Edward Schillebeeckx
Edward Schillebeeckx was a prominent 20th-century Belgian Dominican theologian known for his influential contributions to Catholic theology, especially in Christology and ecclesiology, and for his role in the theological developments surrounding the Second Vatican Council.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Avery Dulles Description of subject: Avery Dulles was an American Jesuit priest, eminent Catholic theologian, and the first U.S.-born theologian to be made a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.