saint
C617
concept
A saint is a person recognized for exceptional holiness, virtue, and closeness to the divine, often serving as a moral and spiritual exemplar within a religious tradition.
All labels observed (46)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Christian saint | 469 |
| saint canonical | 328 |
| Catholic saint | 280 |
| Christian martyr | 175 |
| martyr | 136 |
| patron saint | 74 |
| abbot | 65 |
| ascetic | 32 |
| bodhisattva | 18 |
| virgin martyr | 9 |
| Varkari saint | 7 |
| saint of the Russian Orthodox Church | 5 |
| Marathi saint | 4 |
| military saint | 4 |
| Cappadocian Father | 3 |
| confessor | 3 |
| enlightened being | 3 |
| female saint | 3 |
| martyr figure | 3 |
| medieval saint | 3 |
| Yazidi saint | 2 |
| Christian saint candidate | 1 |
| Christian saint’s life | 1 |
| Nath saint | 1 |
| Pisan saint | 1 |
| Saint | 1 |
| canonized person | 1 |
| canonized saint | 1 |
| lay saint | 1 |
| levitating saint | 1 |
| local saint | 1 |
| national patron saint | 1 |
| physician saints | 1 |
| pilgrim saint | 1 |
| saint in Sunni Islam | 1 |
| saint of the Catholic Church | 1 |
| saint of the Dvaita tradition | 1 |
| saint of the Lutheran Church | 1 |
| saint-scholar | 1 |
| saintly figure | 1 |
| soldier-saint | 1 |
| type of saint | 1 |
| venerated saint | 1 |
| virgin saint | 1 |
| virgin-martyr | 1 |
| святой | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: saint
Generated description
A saint is a person recognized for exceptional holiness, virtue, and closeness to the divine, often serving as a moral and spiritual exemplar within a religious tradition.
Instances (1,323)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Saint Naum of Ohrid | Christian saint |
| Peter | Christian saint |
| Peter | Christian saint |
| Macarius of Egypt | — |
| Dunstan | abbot |
|
Dunstan as Archbishop of Canterbury
surface form:
Dunstan
|
Christian saint |
| Saint Shenoute | abbot |
| Oswald of Worcester | Christian saint |
|
Soisy-Bouy, near Pontigny, France
surface form:
Saint Edmund Rich
|
Catholic saint |
| Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada | Catholic saint |
|
Bishop Wilfrid
surface form:
Wilfrid
|
— |
| Ksitigarbha | bodhisattva |
| Valerius of Saragossa | Christian saint |
| Pope Anacletus | Christian martyr |
| Matsyendranath | Nath saint |
| Saint Cenydd | Christian saint |
| Manjushri | bodhisattva |
|
Neri
surface form:
Philip Neri
|
— |
| John of God | Catholic saint |
| Samantabhadra | bodhisattva |
| John Sinaites | ascetic |
|
Stephen I
surface form:
Stephen I of Hungary
|
— |
|
Isaac Syrus
surface form:
Isaac of Nineveh
|
— |
| Isaac of Qatar | — |
| Elizabeth of the Trinity | — |
|
Saint Hyacinth (San Jacinto)
surface form:
Saint Hyacinth
|
Catholic saint |
| St. Olaf | Christian saint |
|
Stiklestad
surface form:
Olaf II of Norway
|
— |
| Mark the Evangelist | — |
| John Mark | Christian saint |
| Olaf Haraldsson | Christian saint |
| Saint Marcellus | Christian saint |
|
The Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint George
surface form:
Blessed Virgin Mary
|
Christian saint |
| Tirthankaras | enlightened being |
| Drostan of Deer | Christian saint |
| Drostan of Aberdour | Christian saint |
| Drostán | Christian saint |
| Drustan | Christian saint |
| Saint Chrysanthus | Christian martyr |
| Saint Daria | Christian martyr |
| Volodymyr the Great | — |
| Wigstan | Christian martyr |
| Chokhamela | Varkari saint |
| Savata Mali | Varkari saint |
| Saint Wigstan | Christian martyr |
| Saint Juliana | Christian martyr |
|
King Edmund of East Anglia
surface form:
Edmund of East Anglia
|
Christian martyr |
| Saint Lucius | Christian saint |
| Abbot José Correia da Serra | abbot |
| Saint Chad | Christian saint |