Saint Didacus of Alcalá
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Saint Didacus of Alcalá was a 15th-century Spanish Franciscan lay brother renowned for his humility, charity, and reputed healing miracles, later venerated as the patron saint of San Diego.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Didacus of Alcalá | 1 |
| Saint Didacus | 1 |
| Saint Didacus of Alcalá canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1137635 — 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 Didacus of Alcalá Context triple: [Mission San Diego de Alcalá, dedicatedTo, Saint Didacus of Alcalá]
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Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo
Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo was a 16th-century Spanish-born archbishop and missionary in Peru, renowned for his defense of Indigenous peoples and his role in reforming and strengthening the Catholic Church in Latin America.
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Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo
Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo was a 7th-century Archbishop of Toledo renowned for his Marian devotion and theological writings, particularly on the Virgin Mary's perpetual virginity.
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Saint Vincent of Saragossa
Saint Vincent of Saragossa was a 4th-century Spanish deacon and Christian martyr venerated as one of the principal patron saints of the city of Zaragoza and of vintners.
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D.
Toribio Montes
Toribio Montes was a Spanish military officer and colonial official who played a leading royalist role in suppressing early independence movements in northern South America.
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Saint Herculanus of Perugia
Saint Herculanus of Perugia was a 6th-century bishop and martyr venerated in the Catholic Church, especially in central Italy, for his defense of Perugia during the Gothic War.
- 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 Didacus of Alcalá Target entity description: Saint Didacus of Alcalá was a 15th-century Spanish Franciscan lay brother renowned for his humility, charity, and reputed healing miracles, later venerated as the patron saint of San Diego.
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A.
Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo
Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo was a 16th-century Spanish-born archbishop and missionary in Peru, renowned for his defense of Indigenous peoples and his role in reforming and strengthening the Catholic Church in Latin America.
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B.
Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo
Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo was a 7th-century Archbishop of Toledo renowned for his Marian devotion and theological writings, particularly on the Virgin Mary's perpetual virginity.
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C.
Saint Vincent of Saragossa
Saint Vincent of Saragossa was a 4th-century Spanish deacon and Christian martyr venerated as one of the principal patron saints of the city of Zaragoza and of vintners.
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D.
Toribio Montes
Toribio Montes was a Spanish military officer and colonial official who played a leading royalist role in suppressing early independence movements in northern South America.
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E.
Saint Herculanus of Perugia
Saint Herculanus of Perugia was a 6th-century bishop and martyr venerated in the Catholic Church, especially in central Italy, for his defense of Perugia during the Gothic War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Saint Didacus of Alcalá Description of subject: Saint Didacus of Alcalá was a 15th-century Spanish Franciscan lay brother renowned for his humility, charity, and reputed healing miracles, later venerated as the patron saint of San Diego.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Saint Didacus of Alcalá
linked to: Saint Didacus of Alcalá