Johann Hofbauer
E490587
Johann Hofbauer, better known as Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer, was a Redemptorist priest and missionary who became a key figure in spreading the congregation’s work across Central Europe and is venerated as a Catholic saint.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johann Hofbauer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5055048 — 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: Johann Hofbauer Context triple: [Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer, birthName, Johann Hofbauer]
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A.
Harald Ganzinger
Harald Ganzinger was a prominent German computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving and term rewriting systems.
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B.
Gerd Strohmeier
Gerd Strohmeier is a German political scientist and university administrator who serves as the rector of Chemnitz University of Technology.
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C.
Richard Hönigswald
Richard Hönigswald was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher known for his work on epistemology, logic, and the philosophy of science in the early 20th century.
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D.
Johann Rattenhuber
Johann Rattenhuber was a high-ranking Nazi official best known as the head of Adolf Hitler’s personal security service, the Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD).
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E.
Wolfgang Ehrlich
Wolfgang Ehrlich is a notable individual who shares the Ehrlich surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
- 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: Johann Hofbauer Target entity description: Johann Hofbauer, better known as Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer, was a Redemptorist priest and missionary who became a key figure in spreading the congregation’s work across Central Europe and is venerated as a Catholic saint.
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A.
Harald Ganzinger
Harald Ganzinger was a prominent German computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving and term rewriting systems.
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B.
Gerd Strohmeier
Gerd Strohmeier is a German political scientist and university administrator who serves as the rector of Chemnitz University of Technology.
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C.
Richard Hönigswald
Richard Hönigswald was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher known for his work on epistemology, logic, and the philosophy of science in the early 20th century.
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D.
Johann Rattenhuber
Johann Rattenhuber was a high-ranking Nazi official best known as the head of Adolf Hitler’s personal security service, the Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD).
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E.
Wolfgang Ehrlich
Wolfgang Ehrlich is a notable individual who shares the Ehrlich surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic priest
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Catholic saint ⓘ Redemptorist priest ⓘ human ⓘ missionary ⓘ religious order member ⓘ |
| activityRegion |
Austria
NERFINISHED
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Central Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Clement Mary Hofbauer
NERFINISHED
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Klemens Maria Hofbauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | canonized saint ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Austrian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| devotionalCult |
popular devotion in Vienna
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veneration among Redemptorists ⓘ |
| hasRole |
patron of Redemptorist missionaries
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patron saint of Vienna ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Saint ⓘ |
| influenced |
Catholic renewal in Central Europe
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expansion of Redemptorists in German-speaking lands ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
German
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Redemptorists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Johann Hofbauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being venerated as a Catholic saint
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pastoral work in Vienna ⓘ spreading the Redemptorist congregation in Central Europe ⓘ |
| notableWork |
missionary work in Warsaw
ⓘ
pastoral care of the urban poor ⓘ |
| occupation |
missionary
ⓘ
priest ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Habsburg Monarchy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moravia NERFINISHED ⓘ Tasovice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Austrian Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vienna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
|
| religiousOrder | Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spiritualityTradition |
Catholic devotional life
ⓘ
Redemptorist spirituality ⓘ |
| title | Apostle of Vienna ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
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: Johann Hofbauer Description of subject: Johann Hofbauer, better known as Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer, was a Redemptorist priest and missionary who became a key figure in spreading the congregation’s work across Central Europe and is venerated as a Catholic saint.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.