Salisbury Cathedral
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Salisbury Cathedral is a renowned early English Gothic cathedral in Wiltshire, England, best known for its soaring spire and housing one of the best-preserved original copies of the Magna Carta.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T33016 — 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: Salisbury Cathedral Context triple: [Magna Carta, preservedAt, Salisbury Cathedral]
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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.
Lincoln Cathedral
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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C.
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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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.
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E.
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.
- 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: Salisbury Cathedral Target entity description: Salisbury Cathedral is a renowned early English Gothic cathedral in Wiltshire, England, best known for its soaring spire and housing one of the best-preserved original copies of the Magna Carta.
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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.
Lincoln Cathedral
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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C.
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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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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican cathedral
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Gothic architecture ⓘ church building ⓘ |
| architecturalType | cathedral ⓘ |
| bishopSeatOf | Bishop of Salisbury ⓘ |
| clockDate | c. 1386 ⓘ |
| completionYear | 1258 ⓘ |
| consecrationYear | 1258 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1220 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Virgin Mary
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surface form:
Blessed Virgin Mary
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| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Salisbury ⓘ |
| ecclesiasticalProvince | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| governingBody | Dean and Chapter of Salisbury ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
double transepts
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large cloister garth ⓘ medieval clock mechanism ⓘ medieval stone vaulting ⓘ slender piers and lancet windows ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Salisbury Cathedral
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral chapter house
Salisbury Cathedral choir ⓘ Salisbury Cathedral self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral cloister
Salisbury Cathedral close ⓘ Salisbury Cathedral self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral nave
Salisbury Cathedral spire ⓘ Salisbury Cathedral self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral tower
Salisbury Cathedral self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral transepts
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| height |
123 m
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404 ft ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade I listed building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | England ⓘ |
| houses | original 1215 Magna Carta manuscript ⓘ |
| knownFor |
housing an original copy of Magna Carta
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large cloister and cathedral close ⓘ medieval clock ⓘ tallest church spire in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| length | 142 m ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition | Anglican ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Salisbury ⓘ Wiltshire ⓘ |
| magnaCartaLocation | chapter house ⓘ |
| naveLength | 84 m ⓘ |
| numberOfMagnaCartaCopies | 1 ⓘ |
| patronSaint | Virgin Mary ⓘ |
| spireCompletionYear | 1320 ⓘ |
| style | Early English Gothic ⓘ |
| towerAndSpireHeight | 123 m ⓘ |
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: Salisbury Cathedral Description of subject: Salisbury Cathedral is a renowned early English Gothic cathedral in Wiltshire, England, best known for its soaring spire and housing one of the best-preserved original copies of the Magna Carta.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral cloister
this entity surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral chapter house
this entity surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral nave
this entity surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral transepts
this entity surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral tower
this entity surface form:
Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Salisbury
subject surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral Close
this entity surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral (commonly associated, exact dedication historically linked to the cathedral)
Bishop’s residence in Salisbury (Bishop’s House / Bishop’s Palace)
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hasProximityTo
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Salisbury Cathedral
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subject surface form:
Bishop’s residence in Salisbury
subject surface form:
The Close (Salisbury)
subject surface form:
The Close (Salisbury)
this entity surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral spire
this entity surface form:
Salisbury Cathedral spire