Teresa
E64893
Catholic nun
Catholic religious congregation
Catholic religious name
Nobel Peace Prize laureate
city
founder of religious order
missionary
religious name
religious sister
saint
Teresa is the religious name of Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun and missionary renowned for her charitable work with the poor in Kolkata, India.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T452020 — 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: Teresa Context triple: [Mother Teresa, religiousName, Teresa]
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A.
Clementina
Clementina is a feminine given name, often considered a variant of Clementine, used in various European and Latin American cultures.
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B.
Luisa
Luisa is a feminine given name used in various languages, particularly Romance languages, as a form of the name Louise.
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C.
Caterina
Caterina is an Italian given name, equivalent to Catherine, commonly used for women in Italian-speaking and related cultures.
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D.
Paola
Paola is an Italian noblewoman who became Queen consort of Belgium as the wife of King Albert II.
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E.
Patricia
Patricia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Teresa Target entity description: Teresa is the religious name of Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun and missionary renowned for her charitable work with the poor in Kolkata, India.
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A.
Clementina
Clementina is a feminine given name, often considered a variant of Clementine, used in various European and Latin American cultures.
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B.
Luisa
Luisa is a feminine given name used in various languages, particularly Romance languages, as a form of the name Louise.
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C.
Caterina
Caterina is an Italian given name, equivalent to Catherine, commonly used for women in Italian-speaking and related cultures.
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D.
Paola
Paola is an Italian noblewoman who became Queen consort of Belgium as the wife of King Albert II.
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E.
Patricia
Patricia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic nun
ⓘ
Catholic religious congregation ⓘ Catholic religious name ⓘ Nobel Peace Prize laureate ⓘ city ⓘ city ⓘ founder of religious order ⓘ missionary ⓘ religious name ⓘ religious sister ⓘ saint ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Kolkata
ⓘ
linked to:
Calcutta
|
| associatedWith | Missionaries of Charity ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bharat Ratna
ⓘ
Nobel Peace Prize ⓘ Order of Merit (United Kingdom) ⓘ
linked to:
Order of Merit
|
| birthName |
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
ⓘ
linked to:
Mother Teresa
|
| birthPlace | Skopje ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | canonized saint ⓘ |
| canonizedBy | Pope Francis ⓘ |
| country |
India
ⓘ
North Macedonia ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | India ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Albania
ⓘ
India ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Kolkata
ⓘ
linked to:
Calcutta
|
| denomination |
Roman Catholic
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| fieldOfWork |
charity
ⓘ
humanitarianism ⓘ social work ⓘ |
| founder | Mother Teresa ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
Mother
ⓘ
Saint Teresa of Calcutta ⓘ
linked to:
Mother Teresa
|
| knownFor |
care for the sick and dying
ⓘ
charitable work with the poor ⓘ homes for the destitute ⓘ missionary work in India ⓘ work in Kolkata ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Albanian
ⓘ
Albanian ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thérèse of Lisieux ⓘ |
| notableWork |
establishing homes for the dying in Kolkata
ⓘ
expansion of Missionaries of Charity worldwide ⓘ |
| placeOfMajorActivity |
India
ⓘ
Kolkata ⓘ
linked to:
Calcutta
|
| religion |
Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| religiousName | Teresa ⓘ |
| religiousNameOf | Mother Teresa ⓘ |
| religiousOrderFounded | Missionaries of Charity ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
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: Teresa Description of subject: Teresa is the religious name of Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun and missionary renowned for her charitable work with the poor in Kolkata, India.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.