Lincoln Cathedral
E11287
Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Gothic cathedral in Lincoln, England, renowned as one of medieval Europe's grandest churches and a former holder of the title of the world's tallest building.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lincoln Cathedral canonical | 49 |
| Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln | 1 |
| Cathedral of Lincoln | 1 |
| Lincoln Cathedral hilltop | 1 |
| Lincoln Cathedral west front | 1 |
| eastward extension of Lincoln Cathedral | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T33015 — 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: Lincoln Cathedral Context triple: [Magna Carta, preservedAt, Lincoln Cathedral]
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A.
King's College Chapel
King's College Chapel is a renowned late Gothic chapel at the University of Cambridge, celebrated for its magnificent fan vaulting, stained glass windows, and choral tradition.
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B.
Westminster Abbey, London
Westminster Abbey, London is a historic Gothic church and royal peculiar renowned as the traditional site of English and later British coronations, royal weddings, and the burial place of many notable figures.
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C.
Dunfermline Abbey
Dunfermline Abbey is a historic medieval church and former Benedictine monastery renowned as the burial place of several Scottish kings and queens, including Robert the Bruce.
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D.
Round Church
Round Church is a distinctive Norman-era, circular stone church in Cambridge, England, and one of the city’s most recognizable historic landmarks.
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E.
Shrewsbury Abbey
Shrewsbury Abbey is a historic former Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, renowned for its medieval architecture and literary association with the Brother Cadfael novels.
- 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: Lincoln Cathedral Target entity description: Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Gothic cathedral in Lincoln, England, renowned as one of medieval Europe's grandest churches and a former holder of the title of the world's tallest building.
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A.
King's College Chapel
King's College Chapel is a renowned late Gothic chapel at the University of Cambridge, celebrated for its magnificent fan vaulting, stained glass windows, and choral tradition.
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B.
Westminster Abbey, London
Westminster Abbey, London is a historic Gothic church and royal peculiar renowned as the traditional site of English and later British coronations, royal weddings, and the burial place of many notable figures.
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C.
Dunfermline Abbey
Dunfermline Abbey is a historic medieval church and former Benedictine monastery renowned as the burial place of several Scottish kings and queens, including Robert the Bruce.
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D.
Round Church
Round Church is a distinctive Norman-era, circular stone church in Cambridge, England, and one of the city’s most recognizable historic landmarks.
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E.
Shrewsbury Abbey
Shrewsbury Abbey is a historic former Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, renowned for its medieval architecture and literary association with the Brother Cadfael novels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Lincoln Cathedral Description of subject: Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Gothic cathedral in Lincoln, England, renowned as one of medieval Europe's grandest churches and a former holder of the title of the world's tallest building.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln
this entity surface form:
Lincoln Cathedral hilltop
this entity surface form:
Lincoln Cathedral west front
this entity surface form:
Cathedral of Lincoln
this entity surface form:
eastward extension of Lincoln Cathedral
subject surface form:
Cathedral Quarter of Lincoln