Damasus II
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Damasus II was a briefly reigning 11th-century pope, serving as head of the Catholic Church for only a few weeks in 1048 before his sudden death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Damasus II canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13264331 — 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: Damasus II Context triple: [Pope Damasus II, alsoKnownAs, Damasus II]
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A.
Pope Hormisdas
Pope Hormisdas was a 6th-century pope best known for healing the Acacian Schism between the Eastern and Western Churches and restoring full communion with Constantinople.
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B.
Paschal III
Paschal III was a 12th-century antipope who opposed the legitimate papacy during the schism of the Roman Catholic Church with the backing of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa.
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C.
Pope Damasus I
Pope Damasus I was a 4th-century Bishop of Rome known for strengthening papal authority, combating heresies, and commissioning Jerome’s Latin translation of the Bible that became the Vulgate.
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D.
Pope Hilarius
Pope Hilarius was a 5th-century Bishop of Rome known for defending church doctrine and authority during the waning years of the Western Roman Empire.
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E.
Pope Miltiades
Pope Miltiades was a 4th-century Bishop of Rome who led the Church during the transition from persecution to imperial favor under Emperor Constantine.
- 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: Damasus II Target entity description: Damasus II was a briefly reigning 11th-century pope, serving as head of the Catholic Church for only a few weeks in 1048 before his sudden death.
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A.
Pope Hormisdas
Pope Hormisdas was a 6th-century pope best known for healing the Acacian Schism between the Eastern and Western Churches and restoring full communion with Constantinople.
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B.
Paschal III
Paschal III was a 12th-century antipope who opposed the legitimate papacy during the schism of the Roman Catholic Church with the backing of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa.
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C.
Pope Damasus I
Pope Damasus I was a 4th-century Bishop of Rome known for strengthening papal authority, combating heresies, and commissioning Jerome’s Latin translation of the Bible that became the Vulgate.
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D.
Pope Hilarius
Pope Hilarius was a 5th-century Bishop of Rome known for defending church doctrine and authority during the waning years of the Western Roman Empire.
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E.
Pope Miltiades
Pope Miltiades was a 4th-century Bishop of Rome who led the Church during the transition from persecution to imperial favor under Emperor Constantine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic bishop
ⓘ
human ⓘ pope ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Pope Damasus II
NERFINISHED
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Poppo of Brixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Holy Roman Empire–papacy relations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Poppo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Rome
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Lorenzo fuori le Mura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 11th century ⓘ |
| church | Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1048-08-09 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Palestrina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Papal States ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Brixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the shortest-reigning popes
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very short pontificate ⓘ |
| papacyEndDate | 1048-08-09 ⓘ |
| papacyStartDate | 1048-07-17 ⓘ |
| papalNameTakenFrom | Pope Damasus I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| papalNumber | 151st pope (traditional count) ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Bishop of Brixen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pope ⓘ |
| predecessor | Pope Benedict IX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignDuration | about 23 days ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
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| seeAlso | List of popes ⓘ |
| successor | Pope Leo IX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Bishop of Brixen before election as pope ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Damasus II Description of subject: Damasus II was a briefly reigning 11th-century pope, serving as head of the Catholic Church for only a few weeks in 1048 before his sudden death.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.