Kevin Vann
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Kevin Vann is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Orange in California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Vann canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5792388 — 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: Kevin Vann Context triple: [Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, currentBishop, Kevin Vann]
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A.
Justin E. Driscoll
Justin E. Driscoll is an American energy executive who leads the New York Power Authority, the nation’s largest state-owned electric utility.
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B.
Jeff Cunningham
Jeff Cunningham is a former professional soccer forward best known as one of Major League Soccer’s most prolific goal scorers.
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C.
Ron Feemster
Ron Feemster is a music producer known for his work on the album "Afrodisiac."
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D.
Tim Latta
Tim Latta is a soccer executive best known for serving as the general manager of the early Major League Soccer club Kansas City Wiz (now Sporting Kansas City).
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E.
Mike Mitchell
Mike Mitchell is an American film director known for his work on animated and family films such as "Shrek Forever After," "Trolls," and "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part."
- 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: Kevin Vann Target entity description: Kevin Vann is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Orange in California.
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A.
Justin E. Driscoll
Justin E. Driscoll is an American energy executive who leads the New York Power Authority, the nation’s largest state-owned electric utility.
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B.
Jeff Cunningham
Jeff Cunningham is a former professional soccer forward best known as one of Major League Soccer’s most prolific goal scorers.
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C.
Ron Feemster
Ron Feemster is a music producer known for his work on the album "Afrodisiac."
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D.
Tim Latta
Tim Latta is a soccer executive best known for serving as the general manager of the early Major League Soccer club Kansas City Wiz (now Sporting Kansas City).
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E.
Mike Mitchell
Mike Mitchell is an American film director known for his work on animated and family films such as "Shrek Forever After," "Trolls," and "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic bishop
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appointedAsBishopOfFortWorthBy | Pope Benedict XVI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appointedAsBishopOfOrangeBy | Pope Benedict XVI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1951-05-10 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Springfield, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clergyType | bishop ⓘ |
| coConsecrator |
George Joseph Lucas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Joseph Leibrecht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| consecrationDateAsBishop | 2005-07-13 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| diocese |
Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Aquinas Institute of Theology
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kenrick-Glennon Seminary NERFINISHED ⓘ Millikin University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTimeAsBishopOfFortWorth | 2012-09-21 ⓘ |
| familyName | Vann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | canon law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
His Excellency
ⓘ
The Most Reverend ⓘ |
| installedAsBishopOfFortWorth | 2005-07-13 ⓘ |
| installedAsBishopOfOrange | 2012-12-10 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Kevin William Vann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
ⓘ
service as bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth ⓘ |
| ordainedByAsPriest | Joseph A. McNicholas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ordinationDateAsPriest | 1981-05-30 ⓘ |
| partOf | Latin Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Bishop of Orange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorAsBishopOfFortWorth | Joseph Patrick Delaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorAsBishopOfOrange | Tod David Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousPositionHeld | Bishop of Fort Worth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| principalConsecrator | Joseph Patrick Delaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| residence | Orange, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rite | Roman Rite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeAsBishopOfFortWorth | 2005-07-13 ⓘ |
| startTimeAsBishopOfOrange | 2012-09-21 ⓘ |
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: Kevin Vann Description of subject: Kevin Vann is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Orange in California.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.