Durham Cathedral
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Durham Cathedral is a renowned Norman Romanesque cathedral in northeast England, celebrated for its massive stone architecture and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T147647 — 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: Durham Cathedral Context triple: [Normans, built, Durham Cathedral]
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Salisbury Cathedral
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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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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Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral is a historic English Gothic cathedral in Gloucester, England, renowned for its medieval architecture and as a prominent site of religious and cultural heritage.
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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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Worcester Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England, renowned for its medieval architecture and as the burial place of King John.
- 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: Durham Cathedral Target entity description: Durham Cathedral is a renowned Norman Romanesque cathedral in northeast England, celebrated for its massive stone architecture and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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A.
Salisbury Cathedral
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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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.
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral is a historic English Gothic cathedral in Gloucester, England, renowned for its medieval architecture and as a prominent site of religious and cultural heritage.
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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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E.
Worcester Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England, renowned for its medieval architecture and as the burial place of King John.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Durham Cathedral Description of subject: Durham Cathedral is a renowned Norman Romanesque cathedral in northeast England, celebrated for its massive stone architecture and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Durham Cathedral (adjacent and historically linked)
this entity surface form:
Durham Cathedral and Castle World Heritage Site
this entity surface form:
Durham Cathedral (relics)
subject surface form:
William Van Mildert
this entity surface form:
Durham Cathedral cloister
this entity surface form:
Durham Cathedral chapter house
this entity surface form:
Durham Castle and Cathedral
this entity surface form:
Durham Castle and Cathedral World Heritage Site
subject surface form:
William of St-Calais
subject surface form:
William of St-Calais
this entity surface form:
Durham Castle and Cathedral
this entity surface form:
Durham World Heritage Site
this entity surface form:
Durham Cathedral precincts
this entity surface form:
World Heritage Site of Durham Castle and Cathedral
subject surface form:
St John’s College, Durham
subject surface form:
Thomas Hatfield
subject surface form:
Thomas Hatfield