Saint Thenew
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Saint Thenew is a legendary early Christian figure in Scottish tradition, venerated as the mother of Saint Mungo and associated with the origins of the city of Glasgow.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Thenew canonical | 3 |
| St Tenew | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9380261 — 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 Thenew Context triple: [Saint Mungo, mother, Saint Thenew]
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A.
Saint Sturm
Saint Sturm was an 8th-century Benedictine monk and missionary, a disciple of Saint Boniface, best known for establishing the influential Fulda Abbey as a major center of Christian learning in the Frankish Empire.
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B.
Saint Tugual
Saint Tugual is a Christian saint, traditionally venerated in parts of Brittany and the Channel Islands, associated with early missionary work and local chapels bearing his name.
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C.
Saint Subber
Saint Subber was a prominent American theatrical producer best known for bringing major mid-20th-century Broadway musicals and plays to the stage.
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D.
Saint Ipomoni
Saint Ipomoni is a revered Orthodox Christian saint, especially honored in Greek tradition as a model of patience, faith, and steadfast endurance in suffering.
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E.
Saint Menehould
Saint Menehould is a Christian saint traditionally regarded as the patron figure associated with the French town of Sainte-Menehould in the Champagne region.
- 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 Thenew Target entity description: Saint Thenew is a legendary early Christian figure in Scottish tradition, venerated as the mother of Saint Mungo and associated with the origins of the city of Glasgow.
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A.
Saint Sturm
Saint Sturm was an 8th-century Benedictine monk and missionary, a disciple of Saint Boniface, best known for establishing the influential Fulda Abbey as a major center of Christian learning in the Frankish Empire.
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B.
Saint Tugual
Saint Tugual is a Christian saint, traditionally venerated in parts of Brittany and the Channel Islands, associated with early missionary work and local chapels bearing his name.
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C.
Saint Subber
Saint Subber was a prominent American theatrical producer best known for bringing major mid-20th-century Broadway musicals and plays to the stage.
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D.
Saint Ipomoni
Saint Ipomoni is a revered Orthodox Christian saint, especially honored in Greek tradition as a model of patience, faith, and steadfast endurance in suffering.
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E.
Saint Menehould
Saint Menehould is a Christian saint traditionally regarded as the patron figure associated with the French town of Sainte-Menehould in the Champagne region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish saint
ⓘ
female saint ⓘ legendary Christian figure ⓘ medieval Scottish legendary figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Culross
ⓘ
Glasgow ⓘ River Forth ⓘ founding legends of Glasgow ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| cultCenter |
Culross in Fife
ⓘ
linked to:
royal burgh of Culross
Glasgow ⓘ |
| feastDay | not firmly established and varies in different traditions ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
St Enoch
ⓘ
linked to:
St Enoch Centre
St Tenew ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Thenew
St Theneu ⓘ St Theneva ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Domneva
St Thenog ⓘ Thenew of Glasgow ⓘ Thenog ⓘ |
| hasLegend |
She was cast adrift or set adrift while pregnant and miraculously survived to give birth to Saint Mungo.
ⓘ
She was persecuted or condemned due to an out‑of‑wedlock pregnancy in some versions of her story. ⓘ |
| historicity | legendary or semi‑legendary ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Brittonic
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| memorial |
St Enoch Square, Glasgow
ⓘ
linked to:
St Enoch Square
St Enoch subway station, Glasgow ⓘ
linked to:
St Enoch subway station
|
| motherOf |
Saint Kentigern
ⓘ
Saint Mungo ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | The modern Glasgow place‑name St Enoch is derived from her name. ⓘ |
| patronage | Glasgow (indirectly, through her association with Saint Mungo) ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| roleInTradition | mother of Glasgow’s patron saint ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early medieval period ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Eastern Orthodox Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Roman Catholic Church ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
Scotland ⓘ |
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 Thenew Description of subject: Saint Thenew is a legendary early Christian figure in Scottish tradition, venerated as the mother of Saint Mungo and associated with the origins of the city of Glasgow.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Saint Thenew