Our Lady of Fátima
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Our Lady of Fátima is the title given to the Virgin Mary in connection with her reported 1917 apparitions to three shepherd children in Fátima, Portugal, which became a major focus of Catholic devotion and pilgrimage.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Our Lady of Fatima | 3 |
| Our Lady of Fátima canonical | 3 |
| Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima | 2 |
| Nossa Senhora de Fátima | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4768058 — 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: Our Lady of Fátima Context triple: [Fátima, associatedWith, Our Lady of Fátima]
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A.
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima is a major Catholic pilgrimage complex in Fátima, Portugal, built around the site of the 1917 Marian apparitions and visited by millions of devotees each year.
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B.
Fátima
Fátima is a town in central Portugal renowned as a major Catholic pilgrimage site associated with reported Marian apparitions in 1917.
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C.
Our Lady Aparecida
Our Lady Aparecida is the patron saint of Brazil, venerated as a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary housed in the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady Aparecida.
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Our Lady of the Rosary
Our Lady of the Rosary is a Marian title of the Virgin Mary associated with the Catholic devotion of praying the Rosary and commemorated in a major feast day on October 7.
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E.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a widely venerated Marian title and icon in the Catholic Church, associated with the Virgin Mary’s continual aid and protection for the faithful.
- 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: Our Lady of Fátima Target entity description: Our Lady of Fátima is the title given to the Virgin Mary in connection with her reported 1917 apparitions to three shepherd children in Fátima, Portugal, which became a major focus of Catholic devotion and pilgrimage.
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A.
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima is a major Catholic pilgrimage complex in Fátima, Portugal, built around the site of the 1917 Marian apparitions and visited by millions of devotees each year.
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B.
Fátima
Fátima is a town in central Portugal renowned as a major Catholic pilgrimage site associated with reported Marian apparitions in 1917.
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C.
Our Lady Aparecida
Our Lady Aparecida is the patron saint of Brazil, venerated as a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary housed in the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady Aparecida.
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D.
Our Lady of the Rosary
Our Lady of the Rosary is a Marian title of the Virgin Mary associated with the Catholic devotion of praying the Rosary and commemorated in a major feast day on October 7.
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E.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a widely venerated Marian title and icon in the Catholic Church, associated with the Virgin Mary’s continual aid and protection for the faithful.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic devotional title
ⓘ
Marian apparition title ⓘ |
| apparitionCountry | Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparitionDayOfMonth | 13 ⓘ |
| apparitionEndDate | 1917-10-13 ⓘ |
| apparitionFrequency | monthly ⓘ |
| apparitionLocation | Fátima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparitionStartDate | 1917-05-13 ⓘ |
| appearedTo |
Francisco Marto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jacinta Marto NERFINISHED ⓘ Lúcia dos Santos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Our Lady of the Rosary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sanctuary of Fátima NERFINISHED ⓘ Three Secrets of Fátima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Miracle of the Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| devotionalType | Marian devotion ⓘ |
| feastDay | May 13 ⓘ |
| hasPilgrimStatue | International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fátima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleHolder | Virgin Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| iconographyFeature |
Immaculate Heart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
rosary in hands ⓘ white mantle ⓘ |
| influencedPope |
Pope Benedict XVI
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pope Francis NERFINISHED ⓘ Pope John Paul II NERFINISHED ⓘ Pope Paul VI NERFINISHED ⓘ Pope Pius XII NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredDevotion |
First Saturdays devotion
ⓘ
World Apostolate of Fátima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Portuguese ⓘ |
| linkedToEvent | Pope John Paul II assassination attempt of 1981 ⓘ |
| liturgicalVeneration | Roman Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorShrine | Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorShrineLocation | Cova da Iria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfMajorApparitions | 6 ⓘ |
| originalTitleForm | Nossa Senhora de Fátima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pilgrimageImportance | one of the most important Catholic pilgrimage sites ⓘ |
| pilgrimageSite | Fátima Sanctuary complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognitionType | worthy of belief ⓘ |
| recognitionYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedByDiocese | Diocese of Leiria-Fátima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requestedDevotion |
devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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praying the Rosary ⓘ |
| requestedPractice |
consecration of Russia
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conversion of sinners ⓘ penance ⓘ |
| secondaryFeastDay | October 13 ⓘ |
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: Our Lady of Fátima Description of subject: Our Lady of Fátima is the title given to the Virgin Mary in connection with her reported 1917 apparitions to three shepherd children in Fátima, Portugal, which became a major focus of Catholic devotion and pilgrimage.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Fatima
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Fatima
this entity surface form:
Our Lady of Fatima
this entity surface form:
Nossa Senhora de Fátima