Our Lady of Knock
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Our Lady of Knock is a Marian title associated with an 1879 apparition of the Virgin Mary in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, which has become a major site of Catholic pilgrimage.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Our Lady of Knock canonical | 2 |
| Basilica of Our Lady of Knock | 1 |
| Shrine of Our Lady of Knock | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10730183 — 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: Our Lady of Knock Context triple: [Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, hasChapelHonoring, Our Lady of Knock]
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A.
Doire Cholm Cille
Doire Cholm Cille is the Irish name for the city of Derry in Northern Ireland, historically associated with a monastic settlement founded by St Columba.
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B.
St Canice's Cathedral
St Canice's Cathedral is a historic medieval Church of Ireland cathedral in Kilkenny, Ireland, renowned for its well-preserved architecture and iconic round tower.
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C.
Clonfert Monastery
Clonfert Monastery was an early medieval Irish monastic center renowned for its scholarship and missionary activity, traditionally associated with the legacy of St. Brendan the Navigator.
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D.
Colm Cille
Colm Cille, better known as Saint Columba, was a 6th-century Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in Scotland and founding the influential monastery on the island of Iona.
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E.
Cill Phádraig
Cill Phádraig is an Irish place name meaning "Patrick's church," from which the anglicized name Kilpatrick is derived.
- 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: Our Lady of Knock Target entity description: Our Lady of Knock is a Marian title associated with an 1879 apparition of the Virgin Mary in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, which has become a major site of Catholic pilgrimage.
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A.
Doire Cholm Cille
Doire Cholm Cille is the Irish name for the city of Derry in Northern Ireland, historically associated with a monastic settlement founded by St Columba.
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B.
St Canice's Cathedral
St Canice's Cathedral is a historic medieval Church of Ireland cathedral in Kilkenny, Ireland, renowned for its well-preserved architecture and iconic round tower.
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C.
Clonfert Monastery
Clonfert Monastery was an early medieval Irish monastic center renowned for its scholarship and missionary activity, traditionally associated with the legacy of St. Brendan the Navigator.
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D.
Colm Cille
Colm Cille, better known as Saint Columba, was a 6th-century Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in Scotland and founding the influential monastery on the island of Iona.
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E.
Cill Phádraig
Cill Phádraig is an Irish place name meaning "Patrick's church," from which the anglicized name Kilpatrick is derived.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Marian title ⓘ |
| apparitionCharacter | silent apparition ⓘ |
| apparitionSetting | gable wall of the parish church in Knock ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Angels
NERFINISHED
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Lamb of God NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint John the Evangelist NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ Virgin Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithDiocese | Archdiocese of Tuam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basilicaDesignationBy | Pope John Paul II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basilicaDesignationYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| basilicaStatus | minor basilica ⓘ |
| centenaryVisitBy | Pope John Paul II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| devotionType | Marian apparition devotion ⓘ |
| hasApparitionDate | 21 August 1879 ⓘ |
| hasApparitionLocation | Knock, County Mayo, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasApparitionYear | 1879 ⓘ |
| hasBasilica | Basilica of Our Lady of Knock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Marian apparitions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Catholic shrines in Ireland ⓘ |
| hasFeastDay |
17 August
ⓘ
21 August ⓘ |
| hasFirstCommissionYear | 1879 ⓘ |
| hasIrishMeaning | Hill of Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIrishName | Cnoc Mhuire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNationalShrineStatus | National Marian Shrine of Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProcessions | Eucharistic processions ⓘ |
| hasRecognitionYear | 1936 GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasRosaryDevotion | public recitation of the Rosary ⓘ |
| hasSanctuary | Knock Shrine complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSecondCommissionYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| hasShrine | Knock Shrine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVisionariesCount | 15 ⓘ |
| hasVisionaryType | lay witnesses ⓘ |
| inspiredHymn | Our Lady of Knock (hymn) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPatronOf |
Ireland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Irish emigrants ⓘ Knock, County Mayo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| liturgicalCalendar | Roman Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| papalVisitBy | Pope Francis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| papalVisitYear |
1979
ⓘ
2018 ⓘ |
| pilgrimageSiteStatus | major Catholic pilgrimage site ⓘ |
| pilgrimsPerYear | over one million ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
Archdiocese of Tuam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shrineLocation | Knock, County Mayo, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Our Lady of Knock Description of subject: Our Lady of Knock is a Marian title associated with an 1879 apparition of the Virgin Mary in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, which has become a major site of Catholic pilgrimage.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
→
hasChapelHonoring
→
Our Lady of Knock
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this entity surface form:
Basilica of Our Lady of Knock
this entity surface form:
Shrine of Our Lady of Knock