Saint Raymond of Penyafort
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Saint Raymond of Penyafort was a 13th-century Spanish Dominican friar and renowned canon lawyer best known for compiling the Decretals of Gregory IX and serving as a leading authority on church law.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Raymond of Peñafort | 2 |
| Raymond of Penyafort | 1 |
| Saint Raymond of Penyafort canonical | 1 |
| Saint Raymond of Peñafort | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6141784 — 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: Saint Raymond of Penyafort Context triple: [Pope Clement VIII, canonized, Saint Raymond of Penyafort]
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Saint Dominic
Saint Dominic was a 13th-century Spanish priest and founder of the Dominican Order, known for his commitment to preaching, education, and combating heresy within the Catholic Church.
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St. Peter Damian
St. Peter Damian was an 11th-century Italian Benedictine monk, cardinal, and reformer renowned for his influential theological writings and his role in promoting church discipline and papal authority.
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C.
Adhemar of Le Puy
Adhemar of Le Puy was a French bishop and papal legate who played a leading spiritual and military role in organizing and guiding the First Crusade.
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D.
Giovanni da Capestrano
Giovanni da Capestrano, better known as Saint John of Capistrano, was a 15th-century Italian Franciscan friar, preacher, and inquisitor renowned for his role in leading Christian forces against the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Belgrade in 1456.
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E.
Saint Charles Borromeo
Saint Charles Borromeo was a 16th-century Italian cardinal and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation, renowned for his role in implementing the reforms of the Council of Trent and for his pastoral and educational initiatives in the Catholic Church.
- 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: Saint Raymond of Penyafort Target entity description: Saint Raymond of Penyafort was a 13th-century Spanish Dominican friar and renowned canon lawyer best known for compiling the Decretals of Gregory IX and serving as a leading authority on church law.
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A.
Saint Dominic
Saint Dominic was a 13th-century Spanish priest and founder of the Dominican Order, known for his commitment to preaching, education, and combating heresy within the Catholic Church.
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B.
St. Peter Damian
St. Peter Damian was an 11th-century Italian Benedictine monk, cardinal, and reformer renowned for his influential theological writings and his role in promoting church discipline and papal authority.
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C.
Adhemar of Le Puy
Adhemar of Le Puy was a French bishop and papal legate who played a leading spiritual and military role in organizing and guiding the First Crusade.
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D.
Giovanni da Capestrano
Giovanni da Capestrano, better known as Saint John of Capistrano, was a 15th-century Italian Franciscan friar, preacher, and inquisitor renowned for his role in leading Christian forces against the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Belgrade in 1456.
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E.
Saint Charles Borromeo
Saint Charles Borromeo was a 16th-century Italian cardinal and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation, renowned for his role in implementing the reforms of the Council of Trent and for his pastoral and educational initiatives in the Catholic Church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic saint
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Dominican friar ⓘ Spanish Roman Catholic priest ⓘ canon lawyer ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| advisorTo |
James I of Aragon
NERFINISHED
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Pope Gregory IX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1175 ⓘ |
| birthName |
Raimundus de Penyafort
NERFINISHED
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Ramon de Penyafort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Kingdom of Aragon
NERFINISHED
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Penyafort, near Barcelona, Crown of Aragon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonizationDate | 1601 ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | canonized saint ⓘ |
| canonizedBy | Pope Clement VIII NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compiled | Decretals of Gregory IX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Crown of Aragon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 6 January 1275 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Barcelona, Crown of Aragon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Barcelona
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Bologna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| feastDay | 7 January ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
canon law
ⓘ
moral theology ⓘ |
| influenced |
Dominican legal scholarship
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development of medieval canon law ⓘ |
| knownFor |
expertise in church law
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promotion of the study of Arabic and Hebrew for missionary work ⓘ systematizing canon law ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Catalan
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf | Order of Preachers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Catalan ⓘ |
| notableWork | Decretals of Gregory IX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | Master of the Order of Preachers ⓘ |
| patronage |
Barcelona Archdiocese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canon lawyers ⓘ confessors ⓘ lawyers ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Cathedral of Barcelona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Master of the Order of Preachers
NERFINISHED
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confessor to King James I of Aragon ⓘ confessor to Pope Gregory IX ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| religiousOrder | Dominican Order NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
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| wrote |
Summa de casibus poenitentiae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Summa de matrimonio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Saint Raymond of Penyafort Description of subject: Saint Raymond of Penyafort was a 13th-century Spanish Dominican friar and renowned canon lawyer best known for compiling the Decretals of Gregory IX and serving as a leading authority on church law.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Raymond of Peñafort
this entity surface form:
Saint Raymond of Peñafort
this entity surface form:
Raymond of Peñafort
this entity surface form:
Raymond of Penyafort