Catholic Encyclopedia

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Catholic reference work encyclopedia reference work

The Catholic Encyclopedia is a comprehensive early 20th-century reference work on Catholic doctrine, history, and institutions, widely used for scholarly and religious study.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Catholic Encyclopedia canonical	11
The Catholic Encyclopedia	3
Catholic Encyclopedia: Supplement 1922	1
Catholic encyclopedias	1
New Advent online edition	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T578988 — 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: Catholic Encyclopedia
Context triple: [Avignon Papacy, describedBySource, Catholic Encyclopedia]

A. Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the official, comprehensive summary of Catholic doctrine on faith and morals, intended as a reference for teaching and understanding the beliefs of the Catholic Church.
B. Roman Catechism
The Roman Catechism is an authoritative manual of Catholic doctrine, commissioned in the 16th century to systematically explain the faith in response to the Protestant Reformation.
C. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine is a Catholic organization best known for promoting religious education and overseeing widely used English translations of the Bible in the United States.
D. magisterium of the Catholic Church
The magisterium of the Catholic Church is its official teaching authority, exercised by the pope and bishops to authentically interpret and safeguard doctrine on faith and morals.
E. Orientalium Ecclesiarum
Orientalium Ecclesiarum is the Second Vatican Council’s decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, affirming their distinct liturgical, spiritual, and disciplinary traditions within the universal Church.
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: Catholic Encyclopedia
Target entity description: The Catholic Encyclopedia is a comprehensive early 20th-century reference work on Catholic doctrine, history, and institutions, widely used for scholarly and religious study.

A. Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the official, comprehensive summary of Catholic doctrine on faith and morals, intended as a reference for teaching and understanding the beliefs of the Catholic Church.
B. Roman Catechism
The Roman Catechism is an authoritative manual of Catholic doctrine, commissioned in the 16th century to systematically explain the faith in response to the Protestant Reformation.
C. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine is a Catholic organization best known for promoting religious education and overseeing widely used English translations of the Bible in the United States.
D. magisterium of the Catholic Church
The magisterium of the Catholic Church is its official teaching authority, exercised by the pope and bishops to authentically interpret and safeguard doctrine on faith and morals.
E. Orientalium Ecclesiarum
Orientalium Ecclesiarum is the Second Vatican Council’s decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, affirming their distinct liturgical, spiritual, and disciplinary traditions within the universal Church.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Catholic reference work ⓘ encyclopedia ⓘ reference work ⓘ
aim	to explain Catholic doctrine to both clergy and laity ⓘ to provide an authoritative reference on Catholic teaching ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
digitalAvailability	available online in the public domain ⓘ
editor	Charles G. Herbermann ⓘ Condé B. Pallen ⓘ Edward A. Pace ⓘ John J. Wynne ⓘ Thomas J. Shahan ⓘ
firstEditionPublicationYear	1907 ⓘ
hasAbbreviation	CE ⓘ
hasEdition	New Advent online edition ⓘ linked to: Catholic Encyclopedia
influenced	Catholic scholarship in the 20th century ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
licenseStatus	public domain ⓘ
notableFor	comprehensive coverage of early 20th-century Catholic knowledge ⓘ historical perspective on Catholic doctrine and practice ⓘ
numberOfVolumes	15 ⓘ
placeOfPublication	New York City ⓘ
publicationPeriodEnd	1914 ⓘ
publicationPeriodStart	1907 ⓘ
publisher	Robert Appleton Company ⓘ
religiousTradition	Catholicism ⓘ
scope	Catholic institutions ⓘ biography ⓘ canon law ⓘ linked to: Canon law history ⓘ liturgy ⓘ philosophy ⓘ religious orders ⓘ theology ⓘ universal Catholic Church ⓘ
subject	Catholic doctrine ⓘ Catholic history ⓘ Catholic institutions ⓘ
targetAudience	Catholic laity ⓘ linked to: Laity in the Church clergy ⓘ general readers interested in Catholicism ⓘ scholars ⓘ
theologicalPerspective	pre–Vatican II Catholic theology ⓘ
timeContext	early 20th century ⓘ
usedFor	historical research on Catholic doctrine ⓘ religious education ⓘ scholarly study of Catholicism ⓘ
workType	multi-volume reference work ⓘ

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