Basilica of St. John
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The Basilica of St. John is a ruined 6th-century Byzantine church in Selçuk, Turkey, traditionally believed to be the burial site of John the Apostle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Basilica of St. John canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11099719 — 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: Basilica of St. John Context triple: [Selçuk, hasNearbyLandmark, Basilica of St. John]
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St Helen’s Basilica
St Helen’s Basilica is a prominent Roman Catholic church and architectural landmark serving as the main parish church in Birkirkara, Malta.
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Basilica of St. Nicholas
The Basilica of St. Nicholas is a historic Roman Catholic church and prominent architectural landmark in the Slovak city of Trnava.
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C.
Basilica of Saint Nicholas
The Basilica of Saint Nicholas is a prominent 19th-century Roman Catholic church in central Amsterdam, known for its neo-Baroque and neo-Renaissance architecture and its location opposite the city’s main railway station.
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Basilica of Saint Nicholas
The Basilica of Saint Nicholas is a renowned Romanesque church in Bari, Italy, famous as a major pilgrimage site housing the relics of Saint Nicholas.
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Basilica of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
The Basilica of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist is a historic Roman Catholic church in Chojnice, Poland, notable for its Gothic architecture and religious significance as a prominent local landmark.
- 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: Basilica of St. John Target entity description: The Basilica of St. John is a ruined 6th-century Byzantine church in Selçuk, Turkey, traditionally believed to be the burial site of John the Apostle.
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A.
St Helen’s Basilica
St Helen’s Basilica is a prominent Roman Catholic church and architectural landmark serving as the main parish church in Birkirkara, Malta.
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B.
Basilica of St. Nicholas
The Basilica of St. Nicholas is a historic Roman Catholic church and prominent architectural landmark in the Slovak city of Trnava.
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C.
Basilica of Saint Nicholas
The Basilica of Saint Nicholas is a prominent 19th-century Roman Catholic church in central Amsterdam, known for its neo-Baroque and neo-Renaissance architecture and its location opposite the city’s main railway station.
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D.
Basilica of Saint Nicholas
The Basilica of Saint Nicholas is a renowned Romanesque church in Bari, Italy, famous as a major pilgrimage site housing the relics of Saint Nicholas.
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E.
Basilica of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
The Basilica of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist is a historic Roman Catholic church in Chojnice, Poland, notable for its Gothic architecture and religious significance as a prominent local landmark.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Basilica of St. John Description of subject: The Basilica of St. John is a ruined 6th-century Byzantine church in Selçuk, Turkey, traditionally believed to be the burial site of John the Apostle.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.