St Mary Overie
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St Mary Overie was the medieval parish church in Southwark that later became known as St Saviour’s and ultimately Southwark Cathedral in London.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1556250 — 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 Overie Context triple: [St Saviour, Southwark, hasFormerName, St Mary Overie]
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A.
St Mary-le-Bow, London
St Mary-le-Bow in London is a historic Church of England building in the City of London, famed for its Bow Bells and its post-Great Fire reconstruction by Sir Christopher Wren.
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B.
St Eustachius Church
St Eustachius Church is a historic parish church in the market town of Tavistock, Devon, noted for its medieval architecture and prominent tower.
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C.
St Bartholomew’s Cathedral
St Bartholomew’s Cathedral is a prominent Gothic Roman Catholic church in Plzeň, Czech Republic, known for its towering spire and historic city-center location.
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D.
St Bartholomew-the-Great, London
St Bartholomew-the-Great in London is a historic 12th-century Augustinian priory church, renowned as one of the city's oldest surviving churches and noted for its Romanesque architecture.
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St Mary Woolnoth
St Mary Woolnoth is a prominent early 18th-century Anglican church in the City of London, renowned for its striking Baroque architecture by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
- 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 Overie Target entity description: St Mary Overie was the medieval parish church in Southwark that later became known as St Saviour’s and ultimately Southwark Cathedral in London.
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A.
St Mary-le-Bow, London
St Mary-le-Bow in London is a historic Church of England building in the City of London, famed for its Bow Bells and its post-Great Fire reconstruction by Sir Christopher Wren.
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B.
St Eustachius Church
St Eustachius Church is a historic parish church in the market town of Tavistock, Devon, noted for its medieval architecture and prominent tower.
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C.
St Bartholomew’s Cathedral
St Bartholomew’s Cathedral is a prominent Gothic Roman Catholic church in Plzeň, Czech Republic, known for its towering spire and historic city-center location.
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St Bartholomew-the-Great, London
St Bartholomew-the-Great in London is a historic 12th-century Augustinian priory church, renowned as one of the city's oldest surviving churches and noted for its Romanesque architecture.
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E.
St Mary Woolnoth
St Mary Woolnoth is a prominent early 18th-century Anglican church in the City of London, renowned for its striking Baroque architecture by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former church building
ⓘ
medieval parish church ⓘ |
| associatedWith | development of Southwark as a riverside settlement ⓘ |
| city |
City of London
ⓘ
surface form:
City of London metropolitan area
|
| country | England ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Virgin Mary ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| function |
community church for Southwark
ⓘ
parish worship ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
St Mary Overie
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
St Mary Overie, Southwark
St Mary Overie self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
St Mary Overy
|
| heritageSuccessor | Southwark Cathedral ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Christian churches in London ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs |
Southwark Cathedral
ⓘ
Southwark Cathedral ⓘ
surface form:
St Saviour’s Church, Southwark
|
| locatedIn |
Southwark
ⓘ
surface form:
Borough of Southwark
England ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Southwark ⓘ historic county of Surrey ⓘ |
| locatedOn | south bank of the River Thames ⓘ |
| parishStatus | parish church of Southwark ⓘ |
| partOf | Diocese of Winchester ⓘ |
| predecessorOf |
Southwark Cathedral
ⓘ
Southwark Cathedral ⓘ
surface form:
St Saviour’s Church, Southwark
|
| preReformationDenomination |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| religiousTradition | Western Christianity ⓘ |
| successor |
Southwark Cathedral
ⓘ
Southwark Cathedral ⓘ
surface form:
St Saviour’s Church, Southwark
|
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 Overie Description of subject: St Mary Overie was the medieval parish church in Southwark that later became known as St Saviour’s and ultimately Southwark Cathedral in London.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie
this entity surface form:
St Mary Overy
this entity surface form:
St Mary Overie, Southwark
this entity surface form:
St Mary Overie (historical dedication)
this entity surface form:
Augustinian priory of St Mary Overie