Diocese of Nanjing
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The Diocese of Nanjing is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in China centered in the city of Nanjing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Diocese of Nanjing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10992493 — 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: Diocese of Nanjing Context triple: [Archdiocese of Braga, metropolitanSeeOf, Diocese of Nanjing]
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Diocese of Fuzhou
The Diocese of Fuzhou is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in China that forms part of the Latin Church hierarchy under the metropolitan authority of the Archdiocese of Braga.
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B.
Diocese of Macau
The Diocese of Macau is a historic Roman Catholic jurisdiction in Macau, China, established in the 16th century as one of the earliest dioceses in East Asia and a key center for Catholic missionary activity in the region.
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C.
Diocese of Taiwan
The Diocese of Taiwan is a jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church that oversees Anglican congregations and ministries across Taiwan.
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D.
Diocese of Formosa
The Diocese of Formosa is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Brazil that falls under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Brasília.
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E.
Diocese of Hung Hoa
The Diocese of Hung Hoa is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Vietnam that forms part of the ecclesiastical province overseen from Hanoi.
- 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: Diocese of Nanjing Target entity description: The Diocese of Nanjing is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in China centered in the city of Nanjing.
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A.
Diocese of Fuzhou
The Diocese of Fuzhou is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in China that forms part of the Latin Church hierarchy under the metropolitan authority of the Archdiocese of Braga.
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B.
Diocese of Macau
The Diocese of Macau is a historic Roman Catholic jurisdiction in Macau, China, established in the 16th century as one of the earliest dioceses in East Asia and a key center for Catholic missionary activity in the region.
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C.
Diocese of Taiwan
The Diocese of Taiwan is a jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church that oversees Anglican congregations and ministries across Taiwan.
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D.
Diocese of Formosa
The Diocese of Formosa is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Brazil that falls under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Brasília.
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E.
Diocese of Hung Hoa
The Diocese of Hung Hoa is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Vietnam that forms part of the ecclesiastical province overseen from Hanoi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman Catholic diocese
ⓘ
ecclesiastical jurisdiction ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Chinese Episcopal Conference (de facto structures) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cathedral | Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Nanjing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cathedralLocatedIn | Nanjing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centeredIn | city of Nanjing ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| denomination |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| hasEcclesiasticalRank | archdiocese ⓘ |
| hasMetropolitanArchbishop | Archbishop of Nanjing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSeeCity | Nanjing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | one of the principal Catholic sees in China ⓘ |
| isSubjectTo | Holy See NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | diocese ⓘ |
| languageOfLiturgy |
Chinese
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
eastern China
ⓘ
surface form:
East China
Jiangsu NERFINISHED ⓘ Nanjing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metropolitanSeeOf | Ecclesiastical province of Nanjing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Catholic Church in China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| province | Ecclesiastical province of Nanjing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Jiangsu Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shanghai region (historically) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
Christianity ⓘ |
| rite | Roman Rite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| suiIurisChurch | Latin Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| type | metropolitan archdiocese ⓘ |
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: Diocese of Nanjing Description of subject: The Diocese of Nanjing is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in China centered in the city of Nanjing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.