St. Augustine
E15203
St. Augustine was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings, especially on justice, morality, and the nature of law, profoundly shaped Western thought and Christian doctrine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Augustine canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T130940 — 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: St. Augustine Context triple: [Letter from Birmingham Jail, influencedBy, St. Augustine]
-
A.
Alexandria
Alexandria is a historic Mediterranean port city in northern Egypt, renowned for its ancient library, lighthouse, and enduring role as a cultural and intellectual center.
-
B.
Milton
Milton is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts, United States, located just south of Boston.
-
C.
Saint Thomas
Saint Thomas is a major Caribbean island known for its bustling port city of Charlotte Amalie, popular beaches, and role as a tourism and commercial hub of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
-
D.
Toledo
Toledo is a historic Spanish city renowned for its medieval architecture, cultural heritage, and role as a major political and religious center in Spain’s history.
-
E.
Belmont
Belmont is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, known for its residential character and proximity to Boston.
- 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: St. Augustine Target entity description: St. Augustine was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings, especially on justice, morality, and the nature of law, profoundly shaped Western thought and Christian doctrine.
-
A.
Alexandria
Alexandria is a historic Mediterranean port city in northern Egypt, renowned for its ancient library, lighthouse, and enduring role as a cultural and intellectual center.
-
B.
Milton
Milton is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts, United States, located just south of Boston.
-
C.
Saint Thomas
Saint Thomas is a major Caribbean island known for its bustling port city of Charlotte Amalie, popular beaches, and role as a tourism and commercial hub of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
-
D.
Toledo
Toledo is a historic Spanish city renowned for its medieval architecture, cultural heritage, and role as a major political and religious center in Spain’s history.
-
E.
Belmont
Belmont is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, known for its residential character and proximity to Boston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian theologian
ⓘ
Church Father ⓘ Doctor of the Church ⓘ bishop ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Augustine of Hippo
ⓘ
Augustine of Hippo ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Augustine
|
| birthDate | 354-11-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Africa Proconsularis
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman North Africa
Thagaste ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | saint ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 430-08-28 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Hippo Regius
ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ
surface form:
Roman North Africa
|
| denomination |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
|
| era | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Christian ethics
ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| fullName |
Augustine of Hippo
ⓘ
surface form:
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
|
| influenced |
Anselm of Canterbury
ⓘ
Christian views of grace ⓘ Christian views of predestination ⓘ John Calvin ⓘ Martin Luther ⓘ St. Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas Aquinas
Western Christian theology ⓘ Western philosophy ⓘ doctrine of original sin ⓘ just war theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ambrose of Milan
ⓘ
Neoplatonism ⓘ Plato ⓘ Scripture ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Latin ⓘ |
| movement |
Church Fathers
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin Church Fathers
|
| notableWork |
Confessions
ⓘ
On Christian Doctrine ⓘ On Free Choice of the Will ⓘ On the Trinity ⓘ The City of God ⓘ |
| occupation |
bishop
ⓘ
philosopher ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
Platonism
ⓘ
surface form:
Christian Platonism
|
| positionHeld |
Augustine of Hippo
ⓘ
surface form:
Bishop of Hippo Regius
|
| regionOfActivity | North Africa ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| theologicalConcept |
divine grace
ⓘ
just war ⓘ ordo amoris ⓘ original sin ⓘ two cities doctrine ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
|
| wroteAbout |
free will
ⓘ
justice ⓘ memory ⓘ morality ⓘ nature of law ⓘ universal Church ⓘ
surface form:
the Church
Trinity ⓘ
surface form:
the Trinity
time ⓘ |
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: St. Augustine Description of subject: St. Augustine was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings, especially on justice, morality, and the nature of law, profoundly shaped Western thought and Christian doctrine.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.