Life of Antony
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Life of Antony is a seminal early Christian hagiography that portrays the ascetic life and spiritual struggles of Saint Anthony the Great, helping to popularize monasticism throughout the Christian world.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Life of Antony canonical | 3 |
| Life of Demetrius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T717148 — 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: Life of Antony Context triple: [Athanasius of Alexandria, notableWork, Life of Antony]
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Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental sandstone sculpture in Belfort, France, symbolizing French resistance during the Franco-Prussian War and created by Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
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Logue
Logue is a surname most notably associated with Lionel Logue, the Australian speech therapist who helped King George VI overcome his stammer.
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L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
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Anton
Anton is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in various European and Slavic countries.
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La Pasionaria
La Pasionaria was the famous nom de guerre of Spanish Republican leader and orator Dolores Ibárruri, renowned for her passionate anti-fascist speeches during the Spanish Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of Antony Target entity description: Life of Antony is a seminal early Christian hagiography that portrays the ascetic life and spiritual struggles of Saint Anthony the Great, helping to popularize monasticism throughout the Christian world.
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A.
Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental sandstone sculpture in Belfort, France, symbolizing French resistance during the Franco-Prussian War and created by Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
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B.
Logue
Logue is a surname most notably associated with Lionel Logue, the Australian speech therapist who helped King George VI overcome his stammer.
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C.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
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D.
Anton
Anton is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in various European and Slavic countries.
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E.
La Pasionaria
La Pasionaria was the famous nom de guerre of Spanish Republican leader and orator Dolores Ibárruri, renowned for her passionate anti-fascist speeches during the Spanish Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian text
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biographical work ⓘ hagiography ⓘ late antique literature ⓘ |
| about | Anthony the Great ⓘ |
| approximateDate | c. 360 ⓘ |
| attributedTo | Athanasius of Alexandria ⓘ |
| author | Athanasius of Alexandria ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | classic of Christian spirituality ⓘ |
| circulation | widely read in late antiquity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| depicts |
Anthony the Great as a model monk
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linked to:
Anthony the Great
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| featuresTheme |
asceticism
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imitation of Christ ⓘ prayer and fasting ⓘ spiritual warfare ⓘ withdrawal from the world ⓘ |
| genre | hagiography ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Anthony the Great
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Athanasius of Alexandria ⓘ demons ⓘ various monks ⓘ |
| influenced |
Byzantine hagiography
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Christian monasticism ⓘ Eastern monasticism ⓘ Latin hagiography ⓘ Western monasticism ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | Christians seeking spiritual edification ⓘ |
| language | Greek ⓘ |
| literaryForm | narrative prose ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Anthony the Great ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Alexandria ⓘ |
| portrays |
ascetic life
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demonic temptations ⓘ desert monasticism ⓘ spiritual struggles ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 4th century ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
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Eastern Christianity ⓘ |
| setting |
Egyptian desert
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Roman Egypt ⓘ
linked to:
Ptolemaic–Roman Egypt
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| significance |
helped popularize monasticism throughout the Christian world
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seminal work of early Christian hagiography ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
3rd century
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4th century ⓘ |
| translatedInto |
Armenian
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Coptic ⓘ Georgian ⓘ
linked to:
Georgian language
Latin ⓘ Syriac ⓘ |
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Referenced by (4)
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linked to: Life of Antony