Saint Cecilia
E211965
Saint Cecilia is a celebrated Christian martyr and the patron saint of music, often depicted with musical instruments and venerated for her steadfast faith.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Cecilia canonical | 9 |
| Santa Cecilia | 3 |
| Sainte Cécile | 2 |
| St. Cecilia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909725 — 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 Cecilia Context triple: [John William Waterhouse, notableWork, Saint Cecilia]
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A.
Saint Lucy
Saint Lucy is a Christian martyr and saint, particularly venerated in Italy and Scandinavia, who is associated with light and whose feast day is celebrated on December 13.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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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
- 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 Cecilia Target entity description: Saint Cecilia is a celebrated Christian martyr and the patron saint of music, often depicted with musical instruments and venerated for her steadfast faith.
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A.
Saint Lucy
Saint Lucy is a Christian martyr and saint, particularly venerated in Italy and Scandinavia, who is associated with light and whose feast day is celebrated on December 13.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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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 (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian martyr
ⓘ
patron saint ⓘ person in Christian hagiography ⓘ saint ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Pope Urban I
ⓘ
Saint Tiburtius ⓘ Saint Valerian ⓘ Trastevere ⓘ musical instruments ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | martyrdom ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
St Cecilia’s Day concerts
ⓘ
musical compositions in her honor ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn | 22 November ⓘ |
| cultDevelopedByCentury | 4th century ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Rome ⓘ |
| feastDay | 22 November ⓘ |
| feastDayInTraditionalRomanRite | 22 November ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Saint ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
harp
ⓘ
organ ⓘ palm of martyrdom ⓘ violin ⓘ |
| influenced |
patronage of church musicians
ⓘ
sacred music tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| majorShrine | Basilica of Saint Cecilia in Trastevere ⓘ |
| martyrdomContext | Roman persecutions of Christians ⓘ |
| nameInLatin | Caecilia ⓘ |
| patronage |
Academy of Music in Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Albi ⓘ church music ⓘ music ⓘ musicians ⓘ poets ⓘ singers ⓘ |
| patronSaintOf |
music
ⓘ
musicians ⓘ singers ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| spouse | Saint Valerian ⓘ |
| title | Virgin and Martyr ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox Church ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Lutheran Church ⓘ
linked to:
Lutheranism
Roman Catholic Church ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| virtue |
chastity
ⓘ
steadfast faith ⓘ |
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 Cecilia Description of subject: Saint Cecilia is a celebrated Christian martyr and the patron saint of music, often depicted with musical instruments and venerated for her steadfast faith.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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