Diocese of Tennessee
E59856
The Diocese of Tennessee is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations in central Tennessee and centered in Nashville.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee | 4 |
| Diocese of Tennessee canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T410477 — 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: Diocese of Tennessee Context triple: [Province IV, hasDiocese, Diocese of Tennessee]
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A.
Diocese of East Tennessee
The Diocese of East Tennessee is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries in the eastern portion of Tennessee.
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B.
Diocese of Mississippi
The Diocese of Mississippi is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries throughout the state of Mississippi.
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C.
Diocese of Alabama
The Diocese of Alabama is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries across the state of Alabama.
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D.
Diocese of Kentucky
The Diocese of Kentucky is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations primarily in the central and western parts of the state of Kentucky.
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E.
Diocese of East Carolina
The Diocese of East Carolina is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations in the eastern portion of North Carolina.
- 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: Diocese of Tennessee Target entity description: The Diocese of Tennessee is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations in central Tennessee and centered in Nashville.
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A.
Diocese of East Tennessee
The Diocese of East Tennessee is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries in the eastern portion of Tennessee.
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B.
Diocese of Mississippi
The Diocese of Mississippi is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries throughout the state of Mississippi.
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C.
Diocese of Alabama
The Diocese of Alabama is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing Episcopal congregations and ministries across the state of Alabama.
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D.
Diocese of Kentucky
The Diocese of Kentucky is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations primarily in the central and western parts of the state of Kentucky.
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E.
Diocese of East Carolina
The Diocese of East Carolina is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations in the eastern portion of North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diocese
ⓘ
jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| cathedral | Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville ⓘ |
| centralCity |
Nashville
ⓘ
surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee
|
| churchProvince |
Province IV of the Episcopal Church (United States)
ⓘ
surface form:
Province IV of the Episcopal Church
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| denomination |
Episcopal Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Episcopal Church (United States)
|
| ecclesiasticalTerritory | central Tennessee ⓘ |
| followsPolity | Episcopal polity ⓘ |
| governedBy | bishop of the Diocese of Tennessee ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeCenter |
Nashville
ⓘ
surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee
|
| hasBishopTitle | Bishop of Tennessee ⓘ |
| hasCathedralFunction | seat of the bishop of Tennessee ⓘ |
| hasCathedralSee | Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville ⓘ |
| hasClericalOrder |
bishops
ⓘ
deacons ⓘ priests ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver |
Episcopal congregations in central Tennessee
ⓘ
missions in central Tennessee ⓘ parishes in central Tennessee ⓘ |
| hasOfficialReligion | Anglican Christianity ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryCity |
Nashville
ⓘ
surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee
|
| hasPrimaryLanguageOfWorship | English ⓘ |
| hasTerritorialJurisdiction |
Middle Tennessee
ⓘ
central Tennessee ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfOrganization |
nonprofit organization
ⓘ
religious organization ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Nashville
ⓘ
surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee
|
| isChristianDenominationalUnit |
Episcopal Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Episcopal Church (United States)
|
| isGovernedAccordingTo | canons of the Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| isMemberOf |
Province IV of the Episcopal Church (United States)
ⓘ
surface form:
Province IV of the Episcopal Church
|
| isPartOfCommunion | Anglican Communion ⓘ |
| isPartOfTradition |
Anglicanism (broadly)
ⓘ
surface form:
Anglicanism
|
| isSubdivisionOf |
Episcopal Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Episcopal Church (United States)
|
| jurisdictionType | diocese ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition | Anglican ⓘ |
| locatedInEcclesiasticalProvince |
Province IV of the Episcopal Church (United States)
ⓘ
surface form:
Province IV of the Episcopal Church
|
| mainDenominationalAffiliation |
Episcopal Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Episcopal Church (United States)
|
| partOf |
Episcopal Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Episcopal Church in the United States of America
|
| regionServed | central Tennessee ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| rite | Anglican ⓘ |
| seeCity |
Nashville
ⓘ
surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee
|
| state | Tennessee ⓘ |
| usesBookOfCommonPrayer |
Book of Common Prayer
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal Church)
|
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: Diocese of Tennessee Description of subject: The Diocese of Tennessee is a regional jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church in the United States, encompassing congregations in central Tennessee and centered in Nashville.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee
this entity surface form:
Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee
this entity surface form:
Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee
this entity surface form:
Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee