Anthony the Great

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Christian hermit Christian monk Desert Father Egyptian Christian ascetic founder of Christian monasticism saint

Anthony the Great was a 3rd–4th century Christian monk venerated as the father of monasticism for his pioneering ascetic life in the Egyptian desert.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Anthony the Great canonical	12
Saint Anthony the Great	11
Anthony of the Desert	2
Anthony the Abbot	2
Anthony of Egypt	1
Anthony the Anchorite	1
Anthony the Great as a model monk	1
Pachomius the Great	1
Saint Anthony of Egypt	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian hermit ⓘ Christian monk ⓘ Desert Father ⓘ Egyptian Christian ⓘ ascetic ⓘ founder of Christian monasticism ⓘ saint ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Anthony the Great ⓘ surface form: Anthony of Egypt Anthony the Great ⓘ surface form: Anthony of the Desert Anthony the Great ⓘ surface form: Anthony the Abbot Anthony the Great ⓘ surface form: Anthony the Anchorite
associatedWith	Sinai desert ⓘ surface form: Egyptian Desert Red Sea Hills ⓘ surface form: Red Sea Mountains Thebaid ⓘ
birthDate	c. 251 ⓘ
birthPlace	Akhmim ⓘ surface form: Coma, Egypt
centuryOfActivity	3rd century ⓘ 4th century ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Roman Empire ⓘ
deathDate	c. 356 ⓘ
deathPlace	Jebel Musa ⓘ surface form: Mount Colzim, near the Red Sea, Egypt
denomination	early Coptic Christianity ⓘ
feastDay	17 January ⓘ
givenName	Anthony ⓘ
influenced	Augustine of Hippo ⓘ Basil of Caesarea ⓘ Saint Benedict of Nursia ⓘ surface form: Benedict of Nursia Christian monastic tradition ⓘ Pachomius the Great ⓘ
knownFor	pioneering ascetic life in the Egyptian desert ⓘ role in the development of desert monasticism ⓘ spiritual warfare against temptations ⓘ withdrawal into solitude and prayer ⓘ
languageOfName	Greek ⓘ
movement	Christian monasticism ⓘ eremitic monasticism ⓘ
notableWork	Life of Anthony (subject of biography by Athanasius of Alexandria) ⓘ
patronage	animals ⓘ farmers ⓘ grave diggers ⓘ skin diseases ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ
title	Father of All Monks ⓘ Father of Monasticism ⓘ
veneratedIn	Anglican Communion ⓘ Coptic Orthodox Church ⓘ surface form: Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria 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

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: Anthony the Great
Description of subject: Anthony the Great was a 3rd–4th century Christian monk venerated as the father of monasticism for his pioneering ascetic life in the Egyptian desert.

Referenced by (32)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Desert Fathers → notableMember → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pachomius the Great

Anthony → hasReligiousAssociation → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great

The Temptation of St. Anthony → depicts → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great

Anthony the Great → alsoKnownAs → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anthony of Egypt

Anthony the Great → alsoKnownAs → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anthony the Abbot

Anthony the Great → alsoKnownAs → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anthony of the Desert

Anthony the Great → alsoKnownAs → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anthony the Anchorite

Antonio → associatedWithSaint → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great

Tau cross → associatedWith → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great

Life of Antony → mainSubject → Anthony the Great ⓘ

Life of Antony → about → Anthony the Great ⓘ

Life of Antony → depicts → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anthony the Great as a model monk

Life of Antony → hasCharacter → Anthony the Great ⓘ

St Antony’s College, Oxford → namedAfter → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony of Egypt

Coptic period → notableFigure → Anthony the Great ⓘ

Saint Anthony Monastery → namedAfter → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great

Saint Anthony Monastery → dedicatedTo → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great

Saint Anthony Monastery → followsRuleOf → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great

La tentation de Saint Antoine → depicts → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great

La tentation de Saint Antoine → mainCharacter → Anthony the Great ⓘ

Father of All Monks → refersTo → Anthony the Great ⓘ

Father of All Monks → appliedTo → Anthony the Great ⓘ

Father of All Monks → honors → Anthony the Great ⓘ

Father of All Monks → alternativeHonorificFor → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anthony the Abbot

Father of All Monks → alternativeHonorificFor → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anthony of the Desert

Father of All Monks → hasNotableBearer → Anthony the Great ⓘ

Life of Anthony (subject of biography by Athanasius of Alexandria) → mainSubject → Anthony the Great ⓘ

subject surface form: Life of Anthony

Life of Anthony (subject of biography by Athanasius of Alexandria) → featuresCharacter → Anthony the Great ⓘ

subject surface form: Life of Anthony

Antonis → nameDayAssociatedWith → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great

Saint Anthony's cross → associatedWith → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great

Saint Anthony's cross → symbolOf → Anthony the Great ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Anthony the Great