St Botolph's Church
E21147
Church of England church
Grade I listed building
church tower
landmark
medieval church building
parish church
St Botolph's Church is a prominent medieval parish church in Boston, Lincolnshire, famed for its towering 14th-century lantern tower known as "The Stump."
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T120411 — 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 Botolph's Church Context triple: [Boston, Lincolnshire, hasLandmark, St Botolph's Church]
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A.
Church of St Martin, Houghton
The Church of St Martin in Houghton is a historic Anglican parish church in Norfolk, England, serving the local village community and reflecting traditional English ecclesiastical architecture.
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B.
Harrow School Chapel
Harrow School Chapel is the historic Anglican chapel at Harrow School, serving as a central place of worship and ceremonial gatherings for the school community.
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C.
Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster
Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster is a historic Anglican parish church in London, situated next to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, long associated with parliamentary worship and notable state occasions.
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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.
Saint Botolph
Saint Botolph is a 7th-century English abbot and saint traditionally venerated as the patron of travelers and various towns bearing his name, especially in eastern England.
- 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 Botolph's Church Target entity description: St Botolph's Church is a prominent medieval parish church in Boston, Lincolnshire, famed for its towering 14th-century lantern tower known as "The Stump."
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A.
Church of St Martin, Houghton
The Church of St Martin in Houghton is a historic Anglican parish church in Norfolk, England, serving the local village community and reflecting traditional English ecclesiastical architecture.
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B.
Harrow School Chapel
Harrow School Chapel is the historic Anglican chapel at Harrow School, serving as a central place of worship and ceremonial gatherings for the school community.
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C.
Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster
Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster is a historic Anglican parish church in London, situated next to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, long associated with parliamentary worship and notable state occasions.
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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.
Saint Botolph
Saint Botolph is a 7th-century English abbot and saint traditionally venerated as the patron of travelers and various towns bearing his name, especially in eastern England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Church of England church
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Grade I listed building ⓘ church tower ⓘ landmark ⓘ medieval church building ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Boston Stump ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Perpendicular Gothic
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Perpendicular Gothic ⓘ |
| clergyType | rector ⓘ |
| constructionEnd | 15th century ⓘ |
| constructionStart | early 14th century ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Botolph ⓘ |
| denomination | Anglican ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Lincoln ⓘ |
| floorPlanType | cruciform ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | churchyard ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bells
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clerestory windows ⓘ lantern tower ⓘ large nave ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ |
| hasOrgan | pipe organ ⓘ |
| hasPart | The Stump ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.parishofboston.co.uk ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade I listed building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationDate | 1966 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Borough of Boston
ⓘ
Boston, Lincolnshire, England ⓘ
surface form:
Boston, Lincolnshire
East Midlands ⓘ Lincolnshire ⓘ St Botolph's Church self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
St Botolph's Church, Boston
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| locatedNear | River Witham ⓘ |
| materialUsed | limestone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dominant position on Boston skyline
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maritime navigation landmark ⓘ tall lantern tower ⓘ |
| parish |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
|
| province | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| towerHeight |
approximately 272 feet
ⓘ
approximately 83 metres ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
ⓘ
community events ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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 Botolph's Church Description of subject: St Botolph's Church is a prominent medieval parish church in Boston, Lincolnshire, famed for its towering 14th-century lantern tower known as "The Stump."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Boston, Lincolnshire
subject surface form:
Boston, Lincolnshire
this entity surface form:
St Botolph's Church, Boston
this entity surface form:
Boston Stump (St Botolph’s Church)
this entity surface form:
St Botolph's Church, Boston
subject surface form:
The Stump
this entity surface form:
St Botolph's Church, Boston
this entity surface form:
St Botolph’s Church, Grimston
this entity surface form:
St Botolph’s Church
this entity surface form:
St Botolph’s Church, Boston
this entity surface form:
St Botolph’s Church, Iken
this entity surface form:
St Botolph’s Church, Iken
this entity surface form:
St Botolph’s Church
this entity surface form:
St Botolph’s Church, Boston
this entity surface form:
St Botolph’s Church, Boston
subject surface form:
Boston, Lincolnshire
this entity surface form:
St Botolph's Church, Boston
subject surface form:
Boston, Lincolnshire
this entity surface form:
St Botolph's Church, Boston
subject surface form:
Boston, Lincolnshire
subject surface form:
Boston, Lincolnshire