Apostles
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The Apostles were the primary disciples of Jesus Christ, chosen to spread his teachings and lay the foundations of the early Christian Church.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Apostles canonical | 8 |
| Apostles of Jesus | 7 |
| Jesus’ disciples | 4 |
| disciples of Jesus | 3 |
| the apostles | 2 |
| Apostle | 1 |
| Christ’s apostles | 1 |
| Jesus' disciples | 1 |
| New Testament Twelve Apostles | 1 |
| Twelve Apostles in Acts 1:13 | 1 |
| apostles of Jesus Christ | 1 |
| the Apostles | 1 |
| the disciples of Jesus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T223719 — 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: Apostles Context triple: [The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, mainSubject, Apostles]
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The Apostles
The Apostles were an elite, secretive intellectual society at the University of Cambridge, known for its influential members and philosophical discussions.
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Apostle Paul
Apostle Paul was an early Christian missionary and theologian whose letters form a significant portion of the New Testament and profoundly shaped Christian doctrine.
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Apostle Peter
Apostle Peter was one of Jesus Christ’s closest disciples and a foundational leader of the early Christian Church, traditionally regarded as the first Pope.
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Apostle Thomas
Apostle Thomas, also known as "Doubting Thomas," was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, best known for initially doubting Jesus’ resurrection until he personally saw and touched Christ’s wounds.
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Apostle Matthew
Apostle Matthew was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, traditionally identified as a former tax collector and the author of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
- 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: Apostles Target entity description: The Apostles were the primary disciples of Jesus Christ, chosen to spread his teachings and lay the foundations of the early Christian Church.
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A.
The Apostles
The Apostles were an elite, secretive intellectual society at the University of Cambridge, known for its influential members and philosophical discussions.
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B.
Apostle Paul
Apostle Paul was an early Christian missionary and theologian whose letters form a significant portion of the New Testament and profoundly shaped Christian doctrine.
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C.
Apostle Peter
Apostle Peter was one of Jesus Christ’s closest disciples and a foundational leader of the early Christian Church, traditionally regarded as the first Pope.
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D.
Apostle Thomas
Apostle Thomas, also known as "Doubting Thomas," was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, best known for initially doubting Jesus’ resurrection until he personally saw and touched Christ’s wounds.
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E.
Apostle Matthew
Apostle Matthew was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, traditionally identified as a former tax collector and the author of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Apostles Description of subject: The Apostles were the primary disciples of Jesus Christ, chosen to spread his teachings and lay the foundations of the early Christian Church.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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parable of the faithful and wicked servants
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Apostle Simon the Zealot
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parable of the fig tree
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