St. Joseph Catholic Church, Quincy, Illinois
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St. Joseph Catholic Church in Quincy, Illinois is a historic Roman Catholic parish best known as the early pastoral assignment of Augustus Tolton, the first openly recognized Black Catholic priest in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Joseph Catholic Church, Quincy, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10238623 — 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: St. Joseph Catholic Church, Quincy, Illinois Context triple: [Augustus Tolton, pastorOf, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Quincy, Illinois]
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A.
St. Joseph Catholic Church
St. Joseph Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church serving the local faith community in Jasper, Indiana.
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B.
St. James Cathedral, Chicago
St. James Cathedral in Chicago is the historic Episcopal cathedral and principal church of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, known for its Gothic Revival architecture and prominent role in the city’s religious life.
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C.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
St. Mary’s Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish church serving the community of Skidegate in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
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D.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
St. Mary’s Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church in Rockville, Maryland, noted for its 19th-century architecture and role as a prominent local landmark.
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E.
Illinois Street Church
Illinois Street Church was the original name of the historic evangelical congregation in Chicago later known as Moody Church, associated with the ministry of Dwight L. Moody.
- 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: St. Joseph Catholic Church, Quincy, Illinois Target entity description: St. Joseph Catholic Church in Quincy, Illinois is a historic Roman Catholic parish best known as the early pastoral assignment of Augustus Tolton, the first openly recognized Black Catholic priest in the United States.
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A.
St. Joseph Catholic Church
St. Joseph Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church serving the local faith community in Jasper, Indiana.
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B.
St. James Cathedral, Chicago
St. James Cathedral in Chicago is the historic Episcopal cathedral and principal church of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, known for its Gothic Revival architecture and prominent role in the city’s religious life.
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C.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
St. Mary’s Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish church serving the community of Skidegate in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
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D.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
St. Mary’s Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church in Rockville, Maryland, noted for its 19th-century architecture and role as a prominent local landmark.
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E.
Illinois Street Church
Illinois Street Church was the original name of the historic evangelical congregation in Chicago later known as Moody Church, associated with the ministry of Dwight L. Moody.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African-American Roman Catholic
ⓘ
Catholic church ⓘ Roman Catholic priest ⓘ historic church ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| city | Quincy, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| earlyAssignment | St. Joseph Catholic Church, Quincy, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClergy | Augustus Tolton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic parish ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Roman Catholic Church in Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Adams County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Diocese of Springfield in Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Quincy, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAs | first openly recognized Black Catholic priest in the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor | early pastoral assignment of Augustus Tolton ⓘ |
| pastor | Augustus Tolton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| religiousOrder | secular diocesan parish ⓘ |
| rite | Roman Rite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| tradition | Latin Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: St. Joseph Catholic Church, Quincy, Illinois Description of subject: St. Joseph Catholic Church in Quincy, Illinois is a historic Roman Catholic parish best known as the early pastoral assignment of Augustus Tolton, the first openly recognized Black Catholic priest in the United States.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.