Vatican Radio
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Vatican Radio is the official broadcasting service of the Holy See, transmitting news, religious programming, and papal messages worldwide in multiple languages.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vatican Radio canonical | 7 |
| Radio Vaticana | 1 |
| Radio Vaticane | 1 |
| Radio Vaticano | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T604763 — 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: Vatican Radio Context triple: [Vatican City, hasRadioStation, Vatican Radio]
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A.
Dicastery for Communication
The Dicastery for Communication is the Vatican department responsible for overseeing and coordinating all Holy See media and communications activities.
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B.
Voice of America
Voice of America is a U.S. government-funded international broadcaster that provides news and information in multiple languages to audiences around the world.
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C.
Secretariat of State of the Holy See
The Secretariat of State of the Holy See is the central governing and diplomatic department of the Vatican, overseeing the political and administrative affairs of the Pope and the Holy See’s international relations.
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D.
Holy See
The Holy See is the central governing authority of the Catholic Church and a sovereign subject of international law, headed by the Pope and based in Vatican City.
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E.
Vatican City institutions
Vatican City institutions are the various religious, academic, administrative, and cultural bodies that operate under the authority of the Holy See within the sovereign territory of Vatican City.
- 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: Vatican Radio Target entity description: Vatican Radio is the official broadcasting service of the Holy See, transmitting news, religious programming, and papal messages worldwide in multiple languages.
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A.
Dicastery for Communication
The Dicastery for Communication is the Vatican department responsible for overseeing and coordinating all Holy See media and communications activities.
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B.
Voice of America
Voice of America is a U.S. government-funded international broadcaster that provides news and information in multiple languages to audiences around the world.
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C.
Secretariat of State of the Holy See
The Secretariat of State of the Holy See is the central governing and diplomatic department of the Vatican, overseeing the political and administrative affairs of the Pope and the Holy See’s international relations.
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D.
Holy See
The Holy See is the central governing authority of the Catholic Church and a sovereign subject of international law, headed by the Pope and based in Vatican City.
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E.
Vatican City institutions
Vatican City institutions are the various religious, academic, administrative, and cultural bodies that operate under the authority of the Holy See within the sovereign territory of Vatican City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic media organization
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international broadcaster ⓘ public service broadcaster ⓘ radio network ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| alternativeName |
Vatican Radio
ⓘ
surface form:
Radio Vaticana
Vatican Radio ⓘ
surface form:
Radio Vaticane
Vatican Radio ⓘ
surface form:
Radio Vaticano
|
| broadcastArea |
Africa
ⓘ
Americas ⓘ Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ worldwide ⓘ |
| broadcastMedium |
FM radio
ⓘ
internet streaming ⓘ medium wave radio ⓘ satellite ⓘ shortwave radio ⓘ |
| country | Vatican City ⓘ |
| designedBy | Guglielmo Marconi ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Pope Pius XI ⓘ |
| hasMission | serve the Pope’s pastoral ministry through communication ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html ⓘ |
| hasService |
commentary on Church events
ⓘ
cultural programs ⓘ educational programs ⓘ live papal liturgies ⓘ news bulletins ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Vatican City ⓘ |
| inception | 1931 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Arabic
ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Hindi ⓘ Hungarian language ⓘ
surface form:
Hungarian
Italian ⓘ Latin ⓘ Polish ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Swahili ⓘ Tagalog ⓘ Ukrainian ⓘ various languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Vatican Gardens
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surface form:
Vatican Gardens (transmission center, historical)
|
| notableBroadcast |
Angelus addresses
ⓘ
Urbi et Orbi blessings ⓘ
surface form:
Urbi et Orbi messages
general audience catecheses ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Holy See ⓘ |
| owner | Holy See ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Dicastery for Communication ⓘ |
| partOf | Holy See communications system ⓘ |
| purpose |
broadcast papal messages
ⓘ
evangelization ⓘ pastoral communication ⓘ provide religious programming ⓘ transmit news about the Holy See ⓘ |
| sector |
news media
ⓘ
religious broadcasting ⓘ |
| startDate | 1931-02-12 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Catholic media studies ⓘ |
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: Vatican Radio Description of subject: Vatican Radio is the official broadcasting service of the Holy See, transmitting news, religious programming, and papal messages worldwide in multiple languages.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Radio Vaticana
this entity surface form:
Radio Vaticane
this entity surface form:
Radio Vaticano