Elena Cornaro Piscopia
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Elena Cornaro Piscopia was a 17th-century Venetian philosopher and theologian renowned as one of the first women in the world to receive a university degree and often cited as the first woman to earn a PhD.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia | 2 |
| Elena Cornaro Piscopia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1401819 — 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.
Target entity: Elena Cornaro Piscopia Context triple: [University of Padua, hasNotableAlumnus, Elena Cornaro Piscopia]
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Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi was an 18th-century Italian physicist and academic who became the first woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field and a pioneering figure for women in higher education.
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Maria Hardouin di Gallese
Maria Hardouin di Gallese was an Italian noblewoman best known as the wife of poet and playwright Gabriele D’Annunzio.
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Clelia Serbelloni
Clelia Serbelloni was an Italian noblewoman of the 16th century, best known as the daughter of Pope Pius IV (Giovanni Angelo Medici) and a member of the influential Serbelloni-Medici family.
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D.
Orsola Buvoli
Orsola Buvoli was the wife of Vittorio Mussolini, the film producer and son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
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Vannozza dei Cattanei
Vannozza dei Cattanei was an Italian noblewoman best known as the long-time mistress of Rodrigo Borgia (later Pope Alexander VI) and the mother of several of his acknowledged children, including Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Elena Cornaro Piscopia Target entity description: Elena Cornaro Piscopia was a 17th-century Venetian philosopher and theologian renowned as one of the first women in the world to receive a university degree and often cited as the first woman to earn a PhD.
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A.
Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi was an 18th-century Italian physicist and academic who became the first woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field and a pioneering figure for women in higher education.
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B.
Maria Hardouin di Gallese
Maria Hardouin di Gallese was an Italian noblewoman best known as the wife of poet and playwright Gabriele D’Annunzio.
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C.
Clelia Serbelloni
Clelia Serbelloni was an Italian noblewoman of the 16th century, best known as the daughter of Pope Pius IV (Giovanni Angelo Medici) and a member of the influential Serbelloni-Medici family.
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D.
Orsola Buvoli
Orsola Buvoli was the wife of Vittorio Mussolini, the film producer and son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
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E.
Vannozza dei Cattanei
Vannozza dei Cattanei was an Italian noblewoman best known as the long-time mistress of Rodrigo Borgia (later Pope Alexander VI) and the mother of several of his acknowledged children, including Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic nun
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Italian noblewoman ⓘ academic ⓘ alumna of the University of Padua ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
philosophy
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theology ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Basilica of Saint Justina, Padua ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Republic of Venice ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1646-06-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1684-07-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Padua
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Università degli Studi di Padova ⓘ
surface form:
University of Padua, faculty of arts
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| era | 17th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian ⓘ |
| familyName | Cornaro Piscopia ⓘ |
| father | Gianbattista Cornaro ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
classical philology
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mathematics ⓘ music ⓘ philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| givenName | Elena ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
musician
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philosopher ⓘ theologian ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| honouredIn | University of Padua commemorations ⓘ |
| influenced | women's access to higher education ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
Arabic
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French ⓘ Greek ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Latin ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Benedictines
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surface form:
Benedictine Oblates
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| mother | Zanetta Boni ⓘ |
| movement | Scholasticism ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | patrician of Venice ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first women in the world to receive a university degree
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being the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of Padua ⓘ |
| notableWork | Latin translations of religious texts ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Republic of Venice
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Venice ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Padua
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Republic of Venice ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: Elena Cornaro Piscopia Description of subject: Elena Cornaro Piscopia was a 17th-century Venetian philosopher and theologian renowned as one of the first women in the world to receive a university degree and often cited as the first woman to earn a PhD.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.