Saint Simeon Stylites

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Saint Simeon Stylites was a 5th-century Christian ascetic famed for living atop a pillar in Syria for decades, becoming one of the most renowned early stylite saints.

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Label	Occurrences
Saint Simeon Stylites canonical	3
St. Simeon Stylites	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12457069 — 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: Saint Simeon Stylites
Context triple: [Church of Saint Simeon Stylites (near Aleppo), dedicatedTo, Saint Simeon Stylites]

A. Saint Serapion
Saint Serapion is a 1628 Baroque painting by Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán, depicting the martyred Mercedarian friar in a stark, devotional style.
B. Simeon of Trier
Simeon of Trier was an 11th-century hermit and saint whose ascetic life and death in Trier led to the conversion of the Porta Nigra into a church and made the site a major place of pilgrimage.
C. Saint Sabbas the Sanctified
Saint Sabbas the Sanctified was a prominent 5th–6th century Christian monk and ascetic, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic traditions for his influential role in developing monasticism in the Judean Desert.
D. Basil of Ancyra
Basil of Ancyra was a 4th-century Christian bishop and theologian known for his influential role in the Arian controversies and for shaping semi-Arian doctrine within the Eastern Church.
E. Saint Chrysogonus
Saint Chrysogonus is an early Christian martyr venerated in the Catholic Church, particularly associated with Rome and honored as the patron of the ancient titular church of San Crisogono.
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: Saint Simeon Stylites
Target entity description: Saint Simeon Stylites was a 5th-century Christian ascetic famed for living atop a pillar in Syria for decades, becoming one of the most renowned early stylite saints.

A. Saint Serapion
Saint Serapion is a 1628 Baroque painting by Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán, depicting the martyred Mercedarian friar in a stark, devotional style.
B. Simeon of Trier
Simeon of Trier was an 11th-century hermit and saint whose ascetic life and death in Trier led to the conversion of the Porta Nigra into a church and made the site a major place of pilgrimage.
C. Saint Sabbas the Sanctified
Saint Sabbas the Sanctified was a prominent 5th–6th century Christian monk and ascetic, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic traditions for his influential role in developing monasticism in the Judean Desert.
D. Basil of Ancyra
Basil of Ancyra was a 4th-century Christian bishop and theologian known for his influential role in the Arian controversies and for shaping semi-Arian doctrine within the Eastern Church.
E. Saint Chrysogonus
Saint Chrysogonus is an early Christian martyr venerated in the Catholic Church, particularly associated with Rome and honored as the patron of the ancient titular church of San Crisogono.
F. None of above. chosen