Catherine Tekakwitha
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17th-century Christian saint
Algonquin person
Catholic saint
Mohawk person
Native American woman
convert to Roman Catholicism
human
Catherine Tekakwitha, also known as Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, was a 17th-century Mohawk-Algonquin woman who converted to Christianity and became the first Native American canonized as a Catholic saint.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Catherine Tekakwitha canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4868010 — 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: Catherine Tekakwitha Context triple: [Beautiful Losers, containsCharacter, Catherine Tekakwitha]
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A.
Saint Philippine Duchesne
Saint Philippine Duchesne was a French Catholic nun and missionary known for bringing the Society of the Sacred Heart to the United States and for her dedicated work among Native American communities.
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B.
Wahunsenacawh
Wahunsenacawh, better known as Chief Powhatan, was the powerful paramount chief of a network of Algonquian-speaking tribes in early 17th-century Virginia and the father of Pocahontas.
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C.
Weetamoo
Weetamoo was a prominent 17th-century Wampanoag sachem (female leader) who played a key role in Native resistance during King Philip’s War in New England.
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D.
Sacagawea
Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman best known for her crucial role as interpreter and guide during the Lewis and Clark Expedition across the American West in the early 1800s.
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E.
Matonabbee
Matonabbee was an 18th-century Chipewyan (Dene) leader and guide best known for leading British explorer Samuel Hearne on his overland journey to the Arctic Ocean.
- 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: Catherine Tekakwitha Target entity description: Catherine Tekakwitha, also known as Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, was a 17th-century Mohawk-Algonquin woman who converted to Christianity and became the first Native American canonized as a Catholic saint.
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A.
Saint Philippine Duchesne
Saint Philippine Duchesne was a French Catholic nun and missionary known for bringing the Society of the Sacred Heart to the United States and for her dedicated work among Native American communities.
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B.
Wahunsenacawh
Wahunsenacawh, better known as Chief Powhatan, was the powerful paramount chief of a network of Algonquian-speaking tribes in early 17th-century Virginia and the father of Pocahontas.
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C.
Weetamoo
Weetamoo was a prominent 17th-century Wampanoag sachem (female leader) who played a key role in Native resistance during King Philip’s War in New England.
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D.
Sacagawea
Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman best known for her crucial role as interpreter and guide during the Lewis and Clark Expedition across the American West in the early 1800s.
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E.
Matonabbee
Matonabbee was an 18th-century Chipewyan (Dene) leader and guide best known for leading British explorer Samuel Hearne on his overland journey to the Arctic Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
17th-century Christian saint
ⓘ
Algonquin person ⓘ Catholic saint ⓘ Mohawk person ⓘ Native American woman ⓘ convert to Roman Catholicism ⓘ human ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 24 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Kateri Tekakwitha
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lily of the Mohawks NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Kateri Tekakwitha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jesuit missions in New France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Auriesville, New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kahnawake, Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| baptismDate | 1676-04-18 ⓘ |
| baptizedBy | Jesuit missionaries ⓘ |
| beatifiedBy | Pope Pius XII NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Tekakwitha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kahnawake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | canonized saint ⓘ |
| canonizedBy | Pope Benedict XVI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBeatification | 1980-06-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1656 ⓘ |
| dateOfCanonization | 2012-10-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1680-04-17 ⓘ |
| devotion |
Eucharistic adoration
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chastity ⓘ penance ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Algonquin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mohawk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Mohawk chief ⓘ |
| feastDay |
April 17
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July 14 ⓘ |
| feastDayNote |
April 17 in Canada
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July 14 in the United States ⓘ |
| givenName | Kateri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasShrine |
National Shrine of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Fonda, New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shrine of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Kahnawake, Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
Native dress
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cross ⓘ lily ⓘ |
| influenced | Native American Catholic communities ⓘ |
| languageOfWorship |
French
ⓘ
Mohawk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Algonquin Christian woman ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Mohawk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAs | first Native American canonized as a Catholic saint ⓘ |
| patronage |
Indigenous peoples of North America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Native Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ care for creation ⓘ ecology ⓘ environment ⓘ people in exile ⓘ |
| placeOfBeatification | St. Peter's Basilica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Ossernenon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near present-day Auriesville, New York ⓘ |
| placeOfCanonization | St. Peter's Square NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Kahnawake
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Francis Xavier Mission, Kahnawake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| religiousName | Kateri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| tookVowOfChastity | 1679 ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
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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: Catherine Tekakwitha Description of subject: Catherine Tekakwitha, also known as Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, was a 17th-century Mohawk-Algonquin woman who converted to Christianity and became the first Native American canonized as a Catholic saint.
Referenced by (2)
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