Basilica of San Vitale
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The Basilica of San Vitale is a renowned 6th-century church in Ravenna, Italy, famous for its richly preserved Byzantine mosaics and architecture.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Basilica of San Vitale canonical | 10 |
| San Vitale, Ravenna | 3 |
| San Vitale (titular church) | 2 |
| Apse mosaic of San Vitale | 1 |
| Basilica di San Vitale | 1 |
| Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna | 1 |
| Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna | 1 |
| San Vitale in Ravenna | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T670094 — 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: Basilica of San Vitale Context triple: [Byzantine architecture, notableExample, Basilica of San Vitale]
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A.
Severan basilica
The Severan basilica is a grand Roman public building in the ancient city of Leptis Magna, Libya, renowned for its monumental architecture commissioned under the Severan dynasty.
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B.
Basilica of Santa Maria in Via Lata
The Basilica of Santa Maria in Via Lata is a historic Roman church on Via del Corso, traditionally associated with early Christian worship and notable burials.
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C.
Basilica of Saint John Lateran
The Basilica of Saint John Lateran is the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) and the oldest, highest-ranking papal basilica in the Catholic Church.
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D.
Basilica of Saint Mary Major
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major is one of Rome’s four major papal basilicas, renowned for its early Christian origins, rich Marian devotion, and remarkable collection of mosaics and relics.
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E.
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
The Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls is one of Rome’s four major papal basilicas, built over the traditional burial place of the Apostle Paul and renowned for its vast neoclassical interior and historic monastic complex.
- 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: Basilica of San Vitale Target entity description: The Basilica of San Vitale is a renowned 6th-century church in Ravenna, Italy, famous for its richly preserved Byzantine mosaics and architecture.
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A.
Severan basilica
The Severan basilica is a grand Roman public building in the ancient city of Leptis Magna, Libya, renowned for its monumental architecture commissioned under the Severan dynasty.
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B.
Basilica of Santa Maria in Via Lata
The Basilica of Santa Maria in Via Lata is a historic Roman church on Via del Corso, traditionally associated with early Christian worship and notable burials.
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C.
Basilica of Saint John Lateran
The Basilica of Saint John Lateran is the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) and the oldest, highest-ranking papal basilica in the Catholic Church.
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D.
Basilica of Saint Mary Major
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major is one of Rome’s four major papal basilicas, renowned for its early Christian origins, rich Marian devotion, and remarkable collection of mosaics and relics.
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E.
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
The Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls is one of Rome’s four major papal basilicas, built over the traditional burial place of the Apostle Paul and renowned for its vast neoclassical interior and historic monastic complex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Basilica of San Vitale Description of subject: The Basilica of San Vitale is a renowned 6th-century church in Ravenna, Italy, famous for its richly preserved Byzantine mosaics and architecture.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
San Vitale, Ravenna
this entity surface form:
San Vitale in Ravenna
this entity surface form:
San Vitale (titular church)
this entity surface form:
San Vitale (titular church)
this entity surface form:
San Vitale, Ravenna
this entity surface form:
San Vitale, Ravenna
this entity surface form:
Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna
this entity surface form:
Basilica di San Vitale
this entity surface form:
Apse mosaic of San Vitale
this entity surface form:
Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna