Saint Cyriacus
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Saint Cyriacus is a Christian martyr venerated as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, traditionally invoked for protection and aid in times of illness and distress.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Cyriacus canonical | 3 |
| Saint Cyrus | 2 |
| Cyriac | 1 |
| Saint Cyr | 1 |
| Saint Cyriacus (Qirqos) | 1 |
| Saint Cyricus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2415411 — 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: Saint Cyriacus Context triple: [Fourteen Holy Helpers, hasMember, Saint Cyriacus]
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A.
Saint Apollinaris
Saint Apollinaris is an early Christian bishop and martyr venerated as a saint, traditionally regarded as the first bishop of Ravenna.
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B.
Saint Marinus
Saint Marinus is a Christian stonemason and hermit traditionally credited with establishing the community that became the Republic of San Marino, one of the world’s oldest surviving states.
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C.
Saint Modestus
Saint Modestus is a Christian martyr venerated as one of the legendary companions of Saint Vitus in early hagiographic tradition.
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D.
Saint Hippolytus
Saint Hippolytus is an early Christian theologian and martyr, traditionally regarded as one of the most important third-century Church Fathers.
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E.
Saint Eutrope
Saint Eutrope is a Christian saint traditionally venerated as an early bishop and martyr, particularly associated with the region of Saintes in France.
- 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: Saint Cyriacus Target entity description: Saint Cyriacus is a Christian martyr venerated as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, traditionally invoked for protection and aid in times of illness and distress.
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A.
Saint Apollinaris
Saint Apollinaris is an early Christian bishop and martyr venerated as a saint, traditionally regarded as the first bishop of Ravenna.
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B.
Saint Marinus
Saint Marinus is a Christian stonemason and hermit traditionally credited with establishing the community that became the Republic of San Marino, one of the world’s oldest surviving states.
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C.
Saint Modestus
Saint Modestus is a Christian martyr venerated as one of the legendary companions of Saint Vitus in early hagiographic tradition.
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D.
Saint Hippolytus
Saint Hippolytus is an early Christian theologian and martyr, traditionally regarded as one of the most important third-century Church Fathers.
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E.
Saint Eutrope
Saint Eutrope is a Christian saint traditionally venerated as an early bishop and martyr, particularly associated with the region of Saintes in France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian martyr
ⓘ
Fourteen Holy Helpers member ⓘ saint ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Fourteen Holy Helpers
ⓘ
surface form:
Fourteen Holy Helpers devotion
intercessory prayer ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn | Roman Martyrology ⓘ |
| cultDevelopedIn | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| deathCause | martyrdom ⓘ |
| devotionalPractice | invocation among the Fourteen Holy Helpers ⓘ |
| feastDay | August 8 ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
book
ⓘ
chains ⓘ palm of martyrdom ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Saint ⓘ |
| invokedFor |
aid in distress
ⓘ
protection against evil spirits ⓘ protection in times of illness ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fourteen Holy Helpers ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Ciriaco
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Saint Cyriacus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cyriac
Quiriacus ⓘ |
| patronage |
people suffering from demonic possession
ⓘ
people suffering from eye diseases ⓘ people suffering from paralysis ⓘ people suffering from temptation ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| title | Martyr ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
healer of the sick
ⓘ
helper in need ⓘ protector against demonic influence ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
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: Saint Cyriacus Description of subject: Saint Cyriacus is a Christian martyr venerated as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, traditionally invoked for protection and aid in times of illness and distress.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Saint Cyr
this entity surface form:
Saint Cyriacus (Qirqos)
this entity surface form:
Cyriac
this entity surface form:
Saint Cyrus
this entity surface form:
Saint Cyrus
this entity surface form:
Saint Cyricus