Edith Stein
E316950
Catholic saint
Discalced Carmelite nun
German person of Jewish descent
convert to Catholicism
human
martyr
philosopher
Edith Stein was a German-Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism, became a Discalced Carmelite nun, and was later canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross after being martyred at Auschwitz.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edith Stein canonical | 7 |
| Teresa Benedicta of the Cross | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2973816 — 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: Edith Stein Context triple: [University of Breslau, hadNotableAlumni, Edith Stein]
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A.
Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas was the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi, a pioneering figure in 20th-century German Reform Judaism and a symbol of both religious innovation and Holocaust-era persecution.
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B.
Marga von Hoesslin
Marga von Hoesslin was the wife of renowned German theoretical physicist Max Planck, who is considered the founder of quantum theory.
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C.
Herta Haas
Herta Haas was a Slovenian communist and partisan who became known as the second wife of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito.
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D.
Margarethe Lindemann
Margarethe Lindemann was the wife of Hans Luther and the mother of the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther.
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E.
Simone Weil
Simone Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist known for her profound reflections on justice, suffering, and spirituality.
- 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: Edith Stein Target entity description: Edith Stein was a German-Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism, became a Discalced Carmelite nun, and was later canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross after being martyred at Auschwitz.
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A.
Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas was the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi, a pioneering figure in 20th-century German Reform Judaism and a symbol of both religious innovation and Holocaust-era persecution.
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B.
Marga von Hoesslin
Marga von Hoesslin was the wife of renowned German theoretical physicist Max Planck, who is considered the founder of quantum theory.
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C.
Herta Haas
Herta Haas was a Slovenian communist and partisan who became known as the second wife of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito.
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D.
Margarethe Lindemann
Margarethe Lindemann was the wife of Hans Luther and the mother of the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther.
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E.
Simone Weil
Simone Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist known for her profound reflections on justice, suffering, and spirituality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
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: Edith Stein Description of subject: Edith Stein was a German-Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism, became a Discalced Carmelite nun, and was later canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross after being martyred at Auschwitz.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Teresa Benedicta of the Cross