Bishop of Hippo Regius
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The Bishop of Hippo Regius was the leading ecclesiastical authority of the North African city of Hippo Regius, a role most famously held by the influential Christian theologian and philosopher Augustine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bishop of Hippo Regius canonical | 4 |
| Bishop of Hippo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1215575 — 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: Bishop of Hippo Regius Context triple: [Augustine of Hippo, heldPosition, Bishop of Hippo Regius]
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A.
Cyprian of Carthage
Cyprian of Carthage was a 3rd-century North African bishop and early Christian writer renowned for his leadership during persecutions and his influential teachings on church unity and ecclesial authority.
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Aurelius of Carthage
Aurelius of Carthage was a prominent early 5th-century bishop and church leader known for his influential role in shaping Western Christian doctrine and church discipline in North Africa.
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C.
Basil of Caesarea
Basil of Caesarea was a 4th-century Christian bishop and theologian renowned for his role in shaping early Christian doctrine, especially the development of Trinitarian theology and monasticism in the Eastern Church.
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D.
Caesarius of Arles
Caesarius of Arles was a prominent 6th-century bishop and theologian known for his influential role in shaping Western Christian doctrine and pastoral practice in Gaul.
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E.
Ambrose of Milan
Ambrose of Milan was a 4th-century bishop, theologian, and influential Church Father known for shaping Western Christian doctrine and famously mentoring and baptizing Augustine of Hippo.
- 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: Bishop of Hippo Regius Target entity description: The Bishop of Hippo Regius was the leading ecclesiastical authority of the North African city of Hippo Regius, a role most famously held by the influential Christian theologian and philosopher Augustine.
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A.
Cyprian of Carthage
Cyprian of Carthage was a 3rd-century North African bishop and early Christian writer renowned for his leadership during persecutions and his influential teachings on church unity and ecclesial authority.
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B.
Aurelius of Carthage
Aurelius of Carthage was a prominent early 5th-century bishop and church leader known for his influential role in shaping Western Christian doctrine and church discipline in North Africa.
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C.
Basil of Caesarea
Basil of Caesarea was a 4th-century Christian bishop and theologian renowned for his role in shaping early Christian doctrine, especially the development of Trinitarian theology and monasticism in the Eastern Church.
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D.
Caesarius of Arles
Caesarius of Arles was a prominent 6th-century bishop and theologian known for his influential role in shaping Western Christian doctrine and pastoral practice in Gaul.
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E.
Ambrose of Milan
Ambrose of Milan was a 4th-century bishop, theologian, and influential Church Father known for shaping Western Christian doctrine and famously mentoring and baptizing Augustine of Hippo.
- 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: Bishop of Hippo Regius Description of subject: The Bishop of Hippo Regius was the leading ecclesiastical authority of the North African city of Hippo Regius, a role most famously held by the influential Christian theologian and philosopher Augustine.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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