Saint Mary of the Snows
E139518
Saint Mary of the Snows is a traditional title for Rome’s Basilica of Saint Mary Major, one of the four major papal basilicas and the most prominent church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the city.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Saint Mary of the Snows canonical | 4 |
| Italian: Madonna della Neve | 1 |
| Saint Mary of the Snow | 1 |
| St Mary of the Snows | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1222149 — 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 Mary of the Snows Context triple: [Basilica of Saint Mary Major, alsoKnownAs, Saint Mary of the Snows]
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Saint Catherine
Saint Catherine is a town in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula best known as the gateway to Mount Sinai and the historic Saint Catherine’s Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Santa Lucia
Santa Lucia is a locality or frazione within the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
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Saint Barbara
Saint Barbara is a Christian martyr venerated as the patron saint of artillerymen, military engineers, and others who work with explosives and dangerous occupations.
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Saint Reparata
Saint Reparata is a Christian virgin martyr venerated particularly in the Mediterranean region, regarded as a patron saint of Nice and celebrated for her steadfast faith and miraculous legends.
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Laetitiae Sanctae
Laetitiae Sanctae is an 1893 encyclical by Pope Leo XIII that reflects on the Rosary and promotes it as a remedy for social and moral ills of the time.
- 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 Mary of the Snows Target entity description: Saint Mary of the Snows is a traditional title for Rome’s Basilica of Saint Mary Major, one of the four major papal basilicas and the most prominent church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the city.
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A.
Saint Catherine
Saint Catherine is a town in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula best known as the gateway to Mount Sinai and the historic Saint Catherine’s Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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B.
Santa Lucia
Santa Lucia is a locality or frazione within the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
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C.
Saint Barbara
Saint Barbara is a Christian martyr venerated as the patron saint of artillerymen, military engineers, and others who work with explosives and dangerous occupations.
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D.
Saint Reparata
Saint Reparata is a Christian virgin martyr venerated particularly in the Mediterranean region, regarded as a patron saint of Nice and celebrated for her steadfast faith and miraculous legends.
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E.
Laetitiae Sanctae
Laetitiae Sanctae is an 1893 encyclical by Pope Leo XIII that reflects on the Rosary and promotes it as a remedy for social and moral ills of the time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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 Mary of the Snows Description of subject: Saint Mary of the Snows is a traditional title for Rome’s Basilica of Saint Mary Major, one of the four major papal basilicas and the most prominent church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the city.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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