Diocese of Spokane
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The Diocese of Spokane is a regional ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, serving congregations in eastern Washington and surrounding areas.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Diocese of Spokane canonical | 8 |
| Episcopal Diocese of Spokane | 2 |
| diocesan curia of Spokane | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T534108 — 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: Diocese of Spokane Context triple: [Province VIII, hasDiocese, Diocese of Spokane]
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A.
Diocese of Olympia
The Diocese of Olympia is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations primarily in western Washington state and centered in Seattle.
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B.
Diocese of Oregon
The Diocese of Oregon is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries in western Oregon.
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C.
Diocese of Idaho
The Diocese of Idaho is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries within the state of Idaho.
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D.
Diocese of Alaska
The Diocese of Alaska is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States that oversees Episcopal congregations and ministries throughout the state of Alaska.
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E.
Diocese of San Joaquin
The Diocese of San Joaquin is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
- 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: Diocese of Spokane Target entity description: The Diocese of Spokane is a regional ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, serving congregations in eastern Washington and surrounding areas.
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A.
Diocese of Olympia
The Diocese of Olympia is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations primarily in western Washington state and centered in Seattle.
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B.
Diocese of Oregon
The Diocese of Oregon is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries in western Oregon.
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C.
Diocese of Idaho
The Diocese of Idaho is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries within the state of Idaho.
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D.
Diocese of Alaska
The Diocese of Alaska is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States that oversees Episcopal congregations and ministries throughout the state of Alaska.
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E.
Diocese of San Joaquin
The Diocese of San Joaquin is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Episcopal Church diocese
ⓘ
diocese ⓘ ecclesiastical jurisdiction ⓘ |
| cathedral | Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane) ⓘ |
| churchProvince | Province VIII of the Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| communion | Anglican Communion ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| denomination |
Episcopal Church (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Episcopal Church
|
| foundedBy |
Episcopal Church (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Episcopal Church
|
| governingBody |
Diocesan Convention of Spokane
ⓘ
linked to:
Diocesan convention
|
| hasBishopTitle | Bishop of Spokane ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver |
Episcopal congregations in eastern Washington
ⓘ
Episcopal congregations in northern Idaho ⓘ |
| hasParishesIn |
Idaho
ⓘ
Washington ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Spokane, Washington ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition |
Anglican
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| locatedIn |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
State of Washington ⓘ
linked to:
Washington State, United States
|
| partOf |
Episcopal Church in the United States of America
ⓘ
linked to:
Episcopal Church
|
| regionServed | Inland Northwest ⓘ |
| rite |
Anglican
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| seeCity | Spokane, Washington ⓘ |
| territory |
eastern Washington
ⓘ
northern Idaho ⓘ
linked to:
North Idaho
|
| website | https://www.spokanediocese.org/ ⓘ |
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: Diocese of Spokane Description of subject: The Diocese of Spokane is a regional ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, serving congregations in eastern Washington and surrounding areas.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Diocese of Spokane
linked to: Diocese of Spokane
linked to: Diocese of Spokane