Saint Anne
E4646
Saint Anne is traditionally venerated in Christian theology as the mother of the Virgin Mary and the grandmother of Jesus.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Anne canonical | 68 |
| Saint Anna | 3 |
| Sainte Anne (French) | 2 |
| St. Anne | 2 |
| Saint Anne (English) | 1 |
| Saint Anne in Christian tradition | 1 |
| Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary | 1 |
| Saint Joachim | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T35241 — 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 Anne Context triple: [Virgin Mary, childOf, Saint Anne]
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A.
Virgin Mary
The Virgin Mary is revered in Christianity as the mother of Jesus Christ and a central figure of faith, purity, and devotion.
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B.
Anna
Anna is the given first name of Eleanor Roosevelt, the influential former First Lady of the United States and human rights advocate.
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C.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Tituba
Tituba was an enslaved woman of Indigenous and African descent whose accusations and testimony helped ignite the Salem witch trials in 1692.
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E.
Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph is a key figure in Christianity, venerated as the earthly father of Jesus and a model of humility, obedience, and protective care.
- 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 Anne Target entity description: Saint Anne is traditionally venerated in Christian theology as the mother of the Virgin Mary and the grandmother of Jesus.
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A.
Virgin Mary
The Virgin Mary is revered in Christianity as the mother of Jesus Christ and a central figure of faith, purity, and devotion.
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B.
Anna
Anna is the given first name of Eleanor Roosevelt, the influential former First Lady of the United States and human rights advocate.
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C.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Tituba
Tituba was an enslaved woman of Indigenous and African descent whose accusations and testimony helped ignite the Salem witch trials in 1692.
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E.
Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph is a key figure in Christianity, venerated as the earthly father of Jesus and a model of humility, obedience, and protective care.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Biblical figure (traditional)
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Christian saint ⓘ Legendary figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Immaculate Conception
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surface form:
Immaculate Conception of Mary (in Catholic tradition)
|
| commemoratedBy |
Church of Saint Anne in Jerusalem
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Saint Anne d’Auray (Brittany, France) ⓘ basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré (Quebec, Canada) ⓘ |
| cultDeveloped | Early centuries of Christianity ⓘ |
| devotionalPractice |
dedication of altars and chapels
ⓘ
novenas ⓘ pilgrimages ⓘ |
| feastType | Memorial (Roman Catholic liturgy) ⓘ |
| grandmotherOf | Jesus Christ ⓘ |
| hasFeastDay |
25 July (some Anglican calendars)
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26 July (Roman Catholic Church) ⓘ 9 December (Eastern Orthodox Church, Conception of the Theotokos by Saint Anne) ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
book
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child Mary at her side ⓘ teaching the Virgin Mary to read ⓘ veil ⓘ |
| languageVariant |
Hannah (traditional Hebrew form)
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Saint Anne self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sainte Anne (French)
Santa Ana (Spanish) ⓘ Sant’Anna (Italian) ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Protoevangelium of James ⓘ |
| motherOf | Virgin Mary ⓘ |
| patronage |
Brittany
ⓘ
Province of Quebec (principal patroness) ⓘ Province of Quebec ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
cabinet-makers ⓘ childless couples ⓘ grandmothers ⓘ housewives ⓘ miners ⓘ mothers ⓘ pregnant women ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Council of Trent (affirmed traditional veneration of saints, including Anne) ⓘ |
| sourceTradition | apocryphal infancy gospels ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Saint Joachim ⓘ |
| theologicalStatus | not mentioned by name in canonical New Testament ⓘ |
| title |
Grandmother of Jesus
ⓘ
Virgin Mary ⓘ
surface form:
Holy Righteous Ancestress of God (Orthodox title)
Mother of the Virgin Mary ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Anglican Communion
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Eastern Catholic Churches ⓘ Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
Lutheranism ⓘ
surface form:
Lutheran Churches
Oriental Orthodoxy ⓘ
surface form:
Oriental Orthodox Churches
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
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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 Anne Description of subject: Saint Anne is traditionally venerated in Christian theology as the mother of the Virgin Mary and the grandmother of Jesus.
Referenced by (79)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Saint Anna
this entity surface form:
St. Anne
subject surface form:
Infant Mary
subject surface form:
Capilla de Santa Ana