Matthew
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Matthew is traditionally recognized as one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and is commonly associated with the authorship of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matthew canonical | 28 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T453848 — 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: Matthew Context triple: [Twelve Apostles (traditional attribution), hasMember, Matthew]
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A.
Matthew
Matthew is the given name of Sir Matt Busby, the legendary Scottish football manager best known for his long and successful tenure at Manchester United.
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B.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Patrick
Patrick is a component or constituent part of something associated with or named Kirkpatrick.
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D.
Andrew
Andrew is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," widely used in English-speaking countries and beyond.
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E.
Andrew
Andrew is a subway station in South Boston on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line.
- 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: Matthew Target entity description: Matthew is traditionally recognized as one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and is commonly associated with the authorship of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
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A.
Matthew
Matthew is the given name of Sir Matt Busby, the legendary Scottish football manager best known for his long and successful tenure at Manchester United.
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B.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Patrick
Patrick is a component or constituent part of something associated with or named Kirkpatrick.
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D.
Andrew
Andrew is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," widely used in English-speaking countries and beyond.
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E.
Andrew
Andrew is a subway station in South Boston on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apostle of Jesus
ⓘ
Christian saint ⓘ New Testament figure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Levi
ⓘ
Matthaeus ⓘ
surface form:
Levi son of Alphaeus
|
| associatedWith |
Gospel of Matthew
ⓘ
Jesus Christ ⓘ
surface form:
Jesus
|
| associatedWithPlace |
Capernaum
ⓘ
Galilee ⓘ |
| calledBy |
Jesus Christ
ⓘ
surface form:
Jesus
|
| calledFrom | tax booth ⓘ |
| contributedTo | spread of early Christianity ⓘ |
| feastDay |
16 November (Eastern Orthodox calendar)
ⓘ
21 September ⓘ |
| gospelAudienceTraditional | Jewish Christians ⓘ |
| gospelContains | Sermon on the Mount ⓘ |
| gospelEmphasis | Jesus as fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy ⓘ |
| hasRelicAt | Salerno Cathedral ⓘ |
| languageOfGospelTraditionally | Greek ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | gift of Yahweh ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Gospel of Luke
ⓘ
Gospel of Mark ⓘ Gospel of Matthew ⓘ New Testament ⓘ |
| name | Matthew self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| occupationBeforeCalling |
publican
ⓘ
tax collector ⓘ |
| oneOf | Four Evangelists ⓘ |
| patronage |
accountants
ⓘ
bankers ⓘ customs officers ⓘ tax collectors ⓘ |
| position | one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| symbol |
angel
ⓘ
winged man ⓘ |
| title | Evangelist ⓘ |
| traditionalAuthorOf | Gospel of Matthew ⓘ |
| traditionallyMartyredIn |
Ethiopia
ⓘ
Persia ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
Lutheranism ⓘ
surface form:
Lutheran Churches
Oriental Orthodoxy ⓘ
surface form:
Oriental Orthodox Churches
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
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: Matthew Description of subject: Matthew is traditionally recognized as one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and is commonly associated with the authorship of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Twelve Apostles (traditional attribution)
subject surface form:
Matthew Parker
subject surface form:
the Twelve