Saint Aldate
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Saint Aldate is a relatively obscure early medieval English saint, traditionally associated with the West Country and venerated locally in places such as Oxford.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Aldate canonical | 3 |
| Saint Aldates | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9514356 — 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 Aldate Context triple: [St Aldate's, namedAfter, Saint Aldate]
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A.
Saint Corbinian
Saint Corbinian was an 8th-century Frankish bishop and missionary whose evangelizing work in Bavaria made him a key founding figure of the Church in the Munich and Freising region.
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B.
Saint Willehad
Saint Willehad was an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon missionary and the first Bishop of Bremen, known for his leading role in converting the Saxons to Christianity under Charlemagne.
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C.
Saint Erc
Saint Erc was an early Irish Christian bishop and missionary traditionally linked to the Hill of Slane and known as a disciple of Saint Patrick.
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D.
Saint Catald
Saint Catald is a 7th-century Irish monk and bishop venerated as a miracle-working saint, especially revered in southern Italy.
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E.
Saint Ormisda
Saint Ormisda is a Christian saint venerated as the patron of the Italian city of Frosinone.
- 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 Aldate Target entity description: Saint Aldate is a relatively obscure early medieval English saint, traditionally associated with the West Country and venerated locally in places such as Oxford.
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A.
Saint Corbinian
Saint Corbinian was an 8th-century Frankish bishop and missionary whose evangelizing work in Bavaria made him a key founding figure of the Church in the Munich and Freising region.
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B.
Saint Willehad
Saint Willehad was an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon missionary and the first Bishop of Bremen, known for his leading role in converting the Saxons to Christianity under Charlemagne.
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C.
Saint Erc
Saint Erc was an early Irish Christian bishop and missionary traditionally linked to the Hill of Slane and known as a disciple of Saint Patrick.
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D.
Saint Catald
Saint Catald is a 7th-century Irish monk and bishop venerated as a miracle-working saint, especially revered in southern Italy.
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E.
Saint Ormisda
Saint Ormisda is a Christian saint venerated as the patron of the Italian city of Frosinone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian saint
ⓘ
early medieval English saint ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Diocese of Oxford ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Oxford ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
West Country
ⓘ
linked to:
South West Peninsula
|
| commemoration | local liturgical calendars ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| cultStatus | obscure ⓘ |
| era | early Middle Ages ⓘ |
| hasChurchDedicatedTo | St Aldate's Church, Oxford ⓘ |
| hasStreetNamedAfter |
St Aldate's, Oxford
ⓘ
linked to:
St Aldate’s, Oxford
|
| historicity | uncertain ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Saint Aldates
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Aldate
St Aldate ⓘ
linked to:
St Aldate's
|
| notableFor | local veneration in Oxford ⓘ |
| patronageStatus | local patron saint (traditional) ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| veneration |
Western Christianity
ⓘ
local cult ⓘ |
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 Aldate Description of subject: Saint Aldate is a relatively obscure early medieval English saint, traditionally associated with the West Country and venerated locally in places such as Oxford.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Saint Aldate