St Mary the Virgin, Penzance
E126414
St Mary the Virgin, Penzance is an Anglican parish church in the coastal town of Penzance, Cornwall, known for serving as a prominent local place of worship and historical landmark.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Mary’s Church, Penzance | 2 |
| St Mary the Virgin, Penzance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1066170 — 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: St Mary the Virgin, Penzance Context triple: [Penzance, hasParishChurch, St Mary the Virgin, Penzance]
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A.
Truro Cathedral
Truro Cathedral is a prominent Anglican cathedral in Truro, Cornwall, known for its distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and role as the mother church of the Diocese of Truro.
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B.
Methil Parish Church
Methil Parish Church is a Christian place of worship serving the local community in the coastal town of Methil, Scotland.
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C.
Bern Minster
Bern Minster is a towering late-Gothic cathedral in Switzerland’s capital, renowned for its intricate architecture and status as the country’s largest church.
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D.
St Blane’s Church
St Blane’s Church is a historic early Christian church and monastic site located on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, known for its ancient ruins and scenic coastal setting.
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E.
St Martins Cathedral
St Martin's Cathedral is a historic Gothic church in Bratislava, Slovakia, best known as the traditional coronation site of Hungarian kings.
- 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: St Mary the Virgin, Penzance Target entity description: St Mary the Virgin, Penzance is an Anglican parish church in the coastal town of Penzance, Cornwall, known for serving as a prominent local place of worship and historical landmark.
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A.
Truro Cathedral
Truro Cathedral is a prominent Anglican cathedral in Truro, Cornwall, known for its distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and role as the mother church of the Diocese of Truro.
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B.
Methil Parish Church
Methil Parish Church is a Christian place of worship serving the local community in the coastal town of Methil, Scotland.
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C.
Bern Minster
Bern Minster is a towering late-Gothic cathedral in Switzerland’s capital, renowned for its intricate architecture and status as the country’s largest church.
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D.
St Blane’s Church
St Blane’s Church is a historic early Christian church and monastic site located on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, known for its ancient ruins and scenic coastal setting.
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E.
St Martins Cathedral
St Martin's Cathedral is a historic Gothic church in Bratislava, Slovakia, best known as the traditional coronation site of Hungarian kings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican parish church
ⓘ
church building ⓘ religious building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Gothic Revival ⓘ |
| category |
Anglican churches in England
ⓘ
Buildings and structures in Penzance ⓘ Churches in Cornwall ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Virgin Mary
ⓘ
surface form:
Mary, mother of Jesus
|
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| ecclesiasticalProvince | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| function | parish church ⓘ |
| governingBody | Diocese of Truro ⓘ |
| hasClergy | parish priest ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bell tower
ⓘ
churchyard ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ |
| hasParish |
Penzance Town Council
ⓘ
surface form:
Penzance parish
|
| hasTower | church tower ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | listed building ⓘ |
| isLandmarkOf | Penzance ⓘ |
| isNear |
Mounts Bay
ⓘ
Penzance ⓘ
surface form:
Penzance harbour
|
| isPartOf | Christian heritage of Cornwall ⓘ |
| languageOfServices | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cornwall
ⓘ
England ⓘ Penzance ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historic parish church in Penzance
ⓘ
role as local landmark ⓘ |
| publicAccess |
open for worship
ⓘ
open to visitors ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism (broadly)
ⓘ
surface form:
Anglicanism
|
| status | active church ⓘ |
| tradition | Anglo-Catholic worship ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
ⓘ
community events ⓘ religious services ⓘ |
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: St Mary the Virgin, Penzance Description of subject: St Mary the Virgin, Penzance is an Anglican parish church in the coastal town of Penzance, Cornwall, known for serving as a prominent local place of worship and historical landmark.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chapel Street, Penzance
this entity surface form:
St Mary’s Church, Penzance
subject surface form:
Chapel Street, Penzance
this entity surface form:
St Mary’s Church, Penzance