The cosine similarity between icon and deity was 0.266, which is smaller than expected.
we randomly sampled 100 lines containing icon from English wikipedia text, which we used for calculating word embeddings, and found that the dominant sense of icon in wikipedia is not a religious painting or figure, but a representative person or thing' as in the wikipedia page of a football superstar David Beckham 14 : Beckham became known as a fashion icon, and together with Victoria, the couple became • • • the reason of icon's anomalous behavior is that the distribution over senses in wikipedia was a lot different from the expected one.