Roman Rota
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The Roman Rota is the highest appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church, primarily responsible for judging cases related to marriage nullity and other canonical disputes.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roman Rota canonical | 6 |
| Sacra Rota Romana | 2 |
| Tribunal of the Roman Rota | 2 |
| Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota | 1 |
| Dean of the Roman Rota | 1 |
| Sacred Roman Rota | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T375701 — 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: Roman Rota Context triple: [Apostolic Penitentiary, isDistinctFrom, Roman Rota]
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A.
Obispo Máximo
Obispo Máximo is the highest-ranking bishop and supreme head of the Philippine Independent Church.
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B.
Sabellius
Sabellius was a 3rd-century Christian theologian best known for teaching a non-trinitarian, modalistic understanding of God that was later deemed heretical by the early Church.
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C.
Benedict
Benedict is a masculine given name of Latin origin, most famously borne in modern times by the British actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
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D.
Tribonian
Tribonian was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and official under Emperor Justinian I, best known for leading the codification of Roman law that shaped European legal tradition for centuries.
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E.
Guido de Brès
Guido de Brès was a 16th-century Reformed theologian and Protestant martyr from the Low Countries, best known for shaping early Calvinist doctrine and dying for his faith during the Spanish persecution.
- 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: Roman Rota Target entity description: The Roman Rota is the highest appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church, primarily responsible for judging cases related to marriage nullity and other canonical disputes.
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A.
Obispo Máximo
Obispo Máximo is the highest-ranking bishop and supreme head of the Philippine Independent Church.
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B.
Sabellius
Sabellius was a 3rd-century Christian theologian best known for teaching a non-trinitarian, modalistic understanding of God that was later deemed heretical by the early Church.
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C.
Benedict
Benedict is a masculine given name of Latin origin, most famously borne in modern times by the British actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
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D.
Tribonian
Tribonian was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and official under Emperor Justinian I, best known for leading the codification of Roman law that shaped European legal tradition for centuries.
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E.
Guido de Brès
Guido de Brès was a 16th-century Reformed theologian and Protestant martyr from the Low Countries, best known for shaping early Calvinist doctrine and dying for his faith during the Spanish persecution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
court of appeal
ⓘ
ecclesiastical court ⓘ tribunal of the Catholic Church ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Roman Rota
ⓘ
surface form:
Sacra Rota Romana
Roman Rota ⓘ
surface form:
Sacred Roman Rota
|
| appealFrom |
diocesan tribunals
ⓘ
interdiocesan tribunals ⓘ |
| appealTo | Pope ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Apostolic Tribunal system ⓘ |
| bindingOn | lower ecclesiastical tribunals ⓘ |
| competence |
cases reserved to the Holy See
ⓘ
second-instance trials from diocesan and interdiocesan tribunals ⓘ third-instance trials in canon law ⓘ |
| decisionsCalled | sentences ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Apostolic Penitentiary
ⓘ
Apostolic Signatura ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Holy See ⓘ |
| handles |
administrative recourses in certain circumstances
ⓘ
marriage nullity cases ⓘ other contentious canonical cases ⓘ |
| hasMember |
auditor
ⓘ
chancellor ⓘ defender of the bond ⓘ notary ⓘ prelate auditor ⓘ promoter of justice ⓘ |
| headedBy |
Roman Rota
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dean of the Roman Rota
|
| historicalPrecursor |
Apostolic Chancery
ⓘ
surface form:
Papal Chancery court
|
| jurisdiction |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
Latin Rite ⓘ
surface form:
Latin Church
|
| language |
Italian
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| legalSystem | canon law ⓘ |
| location | Vatican City ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | derived from the round (rota) table at which judges sat ⓘ |
| officialName |
Roman Rota
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tribunal of the Roman Rota
|
| partOf | Roman Curia ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
court of appeal in canon law cases
ⓘ
highest appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church after the Pope ⓘ |
| proceduralLaw |
Code of Canon Law (1983)
ⓘ
surface form:
Code of Canon Law
proper procedural norms of the Roman Rota ⓘ |
| seat | Palazzo della Cancelleria ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Holy See
ⓘ
surface form:
Apostolic See
Pope ⓘ |
| typeOfCaseSpecialization |
marriage nullity
ⓘ
procedural questions in canon law ⓘ |
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: Roman Rota Description of subject: The Roman Rota is the highest appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church, primarily responsible for judging cases related to marriage nullity and other canonical disputes.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota
this entity surface form:
Tribunal of the Roman Rota
this entity surface form:
Sacra Rota Romana
this entity surface form:
Sacred Roman Rota
this entity surface form:
Dean of the Roman Rota
this entity surface form:
Tribunal of the Roman Rota
this entity surface form:
Sacra Rota Romana