Edward Sorin
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Edward Sorin was a 19th-century French Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross who established the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and played a central role in its early development.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward Sorin canonical | 4 |
| Reverend Edward Sorin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T573710 — 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.
Target entity: Edward Sorin Context triple: [University of Notre Dame, founder, Edward Sorin]
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Horace Tabor
Horace Tabor was a 19th-century American silver magnate and politician from Colorado, best known for his rapid rise to wealth during the silver boom and his scandalous marriage to Baby Doe Tabor.
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Michael Augustine Corrigan
Michael Augustine Corrigan was a prominent 19th-century American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York and played a key role in the Church’s growth and organization in the United States.
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Abraham Flexner
Abraham Flexner was an American educator and reformer best known for his influential critique of medical education and for helping to shape modern research institutions in the United States.
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John Cardinal McCloskey
John Cardinal McCloskey was the first American cardinal and a prominent 19th-century Archbishop of New York who oversaw major growth of the Catholic Church in the United States.
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George Reynolds
George Reynolds was the 19th-century Mormon defendant whose challenge to federal anti-polygamy laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, which helped define the limits of religious freedom under the First Amendment.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Edward Sorin Target entity description: Edward Sorin was a 19th-century French Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross who established the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and played a central role in its early development.
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A.
Horace Tabor
Horace Tabor was a 19th-century American silver magnate and politician from Colorado, best known for his rapid rise to wealth during the silver boom and his scandalous marriage to Baby Doe Tabor.
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B.
Michael Augustine Corrigan
Michael Augustine Corrigan was a prominent 19th-century American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York and played a key role in the Church’s growth and organization in the United States.
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C.
Abraham Flexner
Abraham Flexner was an American educator and reformer best known for his influential critique of medical education and for helping to shape modern research institutions in the United States.
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D.
John Cardinal McCloskey
John Cardinal McCloskey was the first American cardinal and a prominent 19th-century Archbishop of New York who oversaw major growth of the Catholic Church in the United States.
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E.
George Reynolds
George Reynolds was the 19th-century Mormon defendant whose challenge to federal anti-polygamy laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, which helped define the limits of religious freedom under the First Amendment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century Roman Catholic priest
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Catholic priest ⓘ French person ⓘ member of the Congregation of Holy Cross ⓘ university founder ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Congregation of Holy Cross
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University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| basedIn | Notre Dame, Indiana ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| denomination |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
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| familyName | Sorin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Catholic education
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higher education ⓘ religious ministry ⓘ |
| founded | University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
commemorated on the campus of the University of Notre Dame
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namesake of buildings and landmarks at the University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| hasRole |
founder of a Catholic university
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religious superior in the Congregation of Holy Cross ⓘ |
| influenced | development of Catholic higher education in the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ |
| memberOf | Congregation of Holy Cross ⓘ |
| notableFor |
establishing the University of Notre Dame in Indiana
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leading the early development of the University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| notableWork | founding of the University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| occupation |
Catholic priest
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educator ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Indiana
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| positionHeld | president of the University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| religion | Catholicism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Edward Sorin Description of subject: Edward Sorin was a 19th-century French Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross who established the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and played a central role in its early development.
Referenced by (5)
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