Mileševa Monastery
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Mileševa Monastery is a 13th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery in southwestern Serbia, renowned for its medieval frescoes and its historical association with Saint Sava.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mileševa Monastery canonical | 5 |
| Manastir Mileševa | 1 |
| Mileševa Monastery painting | 1 |
| манастир Милешева (мошти Светог Саве су некада почивале тамо) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3752081 — 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: Mileševa Monastery Context triple: [Saint Sava, burialPlace, Mileševa Monastery]
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A.
Gračanica Monastery
Gračanica Monastery is a medieval Serbian Orthodox monastery in Kosovo renowned for its outstanding Byzantine-style architecture and frescoes, and is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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B.
Studenica Monastery
Studenica Monastery is a medieval Serbian Orthodox monastic complex renowned for its Romanesque-Byzantine architecture and well-preserved frescoes, and is considered one of Serbia’s most important cultural and spiritual centers.
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C.
Sopoćani Monastery
Sopoćani Monastery is a 13th-century Serbian Orthodox monastic complex near Novi Pazar, Serbia, renowned for its exceptional medieval frescoes and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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D.
Dečani Monastery
Dečani Monastery is a 14th-century Serbian Orthodox monastic complex in Kosovo, renowned for its medieval frescoes and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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E.
Kovilj Monastery
Kovilj Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastic complex in Vojvodina, Serbia, known for its historical significance, traditional frescoes, and active spiritual and cultural life.
- 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: Mileševa Monastery Target entity description: Mileševa Monastery is a 13th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery in southwestern Serbia, renowned for its medieval frescoes and its historical association with Saint Sava.
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A.
Gračanica Monastery
Gračanica Monastery is a medieval Serbian Orthodox monastery in Kosovo renowned for its outstanding Byzantine-style architecture and frescoes, and is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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B.
Studenica Monastery
Studenica Monastery is a medieval Serbian Orthodox monastic complex renowned for its Romanesque-Byzantine architecture and well-preserved frescoes, and is considered one of Serbia’s most important cultural and spiritual centers.
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C.
Sopoćani Monastery
Sopoćani Monastery is a 13th-century Serbian Orthodox monastic complex near Novi Pazar, Serbia, renowned for its exceptional medieval frescoes and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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D.
Dečani Monastery
Dečani Monastery is a 14th-century Serbian Orthodox monastic complex in Kosovo, renowned for its medieval frescoes and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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E.
Kovilj Monastery
Kovilj Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastic complex in Vojvodina, Serbia, known for its historical significance, traditional frescoes, and active spiritual and cultural life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Orthodox monastery
ⓘ
Serbian Orthodox monastery ⓘ |
| artStyle |
Byzantine art
ⓘ
Serbo-Byzantine architecture ⓘ
surface form:
Serbo-Byzantine style
|
| associatedWith | Saint Sava ⓘ |
| builtUsingMaterial | white stone ⓘ |
| burialPlaceOf |
Saint Sava
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Sava (initial burial)
|
| containsRelicsOf | Saint Sava ⓘ |
| country | Serbia ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Ascension of Jesus
ⓘ
surface form:
Ascension of Christ
|
| denomination |
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodoxy
|
| foundedBy | King Stefan Vladislav I of Serbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 13th century ⓘ |
| foundedInYear | 1230 ⓘ |
| frescoDepicts |
Ascension of Jesus
ⓘ
surface form:
Ascension of Christ
Nemanjić dynasty ⓘ
surface form:
Nemanjic dynasty rulers
Saint Sava ⓘ White Angel (Angel at Christ’s tomb) ⓘ |
| function |
monastic community
ⓘ
pilgrimage site ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Mileševa Monastery
ⓘ
surface form:
Manastir Mileševa
|
| hasArchitecturalType | cross-in-square church ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
important center of medieval Serbian spirituality
ⓘ
important site of Serbian medieval art ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance (Serbia) ⓘ |
| hasMonasticOrder | Orthodox monks ⓘ |
| heritageStatusSince | 1979 ⓘ |
| historicalEvent |
Relics of Saint Sava taken from Mileševa to Belgrade in 1594 and burned by Ottoman authorities
ⓘ
Relics of Saint Sava transferred from Trnovo to Mileševa in 1237 ⓘ |
| influenced | development of Serbian medieval painting ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Byzantine-style wall paintings
ⓘ
White Angel fresco ⓘ medieval frescoes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Prijepolje municipality
ⓘ
Raška region ⓘ southwestern Serbia ⓘ |
| nearCity | Prijepolje ⓘ |
| nearRiver | Mileševka River ⓘ |
| partOf | Eparchy of Mileševa ⓘ |
| region | Sandžak ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Serbian Orthodox Church ⓘ |
| roofMaterial | lead (originally) ⓘ |
| sufferedDamageFrom |
Ottoman incursions
ⓘ
fires ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| underwentRenovation |
16th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
| usedAs | scriptorium in the Middle Ages ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mileševa Monastery Description of subject: Mileševa Monastery is a 13th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery in southwestern Serbia, renowned for its medieval frescoes and its historical association with Saint Sava.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mileševa Monastery painting
this entity surface form:
манастир Милешева (мошти Светог Саве су некада почивале тамо)
this entity surface form:
Manastir Mileševa