St. Jacob's Cathedral (Riga)
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St. Jacob's Cathedral in Riga is a historic Roman Catholic church and one of the prominent medieval religious buildings in the city's Old Town.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Jacob’s Cathedral, Riga | 1 |
| St. Jacob's Cathedral (Riga) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5040788 — 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. Jacob's Cathedral (Riga) Context triple: [Old Town (Riga), hasLandmark, St. Jacob's Cathedral (Riga)]
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A.
Riga Cathedral
Riga Cathedral is a historic Lutheran cathedral in Latvia’s capital, renowned for its impressive Gothic and Baroque architecture and one of the largest organs in Europe.
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B.
St. Peter's Church, Riga
St. Peter's Church in Riga is a prominent medieval Lutheran church renowned for its towering spire and as a key landmark in the historic center of Latvia's capital.
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C.
Riga City Hall
Riga City Hall is a historic municipal building in Latvia’s capital that notably served as the venue for signing the 1921 Treaty of Riga, which ended the Polish–Soviet War.
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D.
Riga Castle
Riga Castle is a historic fortress on the banks of the Daugava River in Latvia’s capital, serving as both a symbol of the city’s past and the official residence of the country’s president.
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E.
Varniai Cathedral
Varniai Cathedral is a historic Roman Catholic church in the town of Varniai, Lithuania, long associated with the religious and cultural life of the Samogitian region.
- 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. Jacob's Cathedral (Riga) Target entity description: St. Jacob's Cathedral in Riga is a historic Roman Catholic church and one of the prominent medieval religious buildings in the city's Old Town.
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A.
Riga Cathedral
Riga Cathedral is a historic Lutheran cathedral in Latvia’s capital, renowned for its impressive Gothic and Baroque architecture and one of the largest organs in Europe.
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B.
St. Peter's Church, Riga
St. Peter's Church in Riga is a prominent medieval Lutheran church renowned for its towering spire and as a key landmark in the historic center of Latvia's capital.
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C.
Riga City Hall
Riga City Hall is a historic municipal building in Latvia’s capital that notably served as the venue for signing the 1921 Treaty of Riga, which ended the Polish–Soviet War.
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D.
Riga Castle
Riga Castle is a historic fortress on the banks of the Daugava River in Latvia’s capital, serving as both a symbol of the city’s past and the official residence of the country’s president.
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E.
Varniai Cathedral
Varniai Cathedral is a historic Roman Catholic church in the town of Varniai, Lithuania, long associated with the religious and cultural life of the Samogitian region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman Catholic cathedral
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church building ⓘ landmark ⓘ medieval church ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Gothic architecture ⓘ |
| buildingType | cathedral ⓘ |
| category |
Churches in Riga Old Town
ⓘ
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Latvia ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Latvia ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint James the Greater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| diocese | Archdiocese of Riga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floorPlan | basilica ⓘ |
| function | cathedral church ⓘ |
| hasBellTower | yes ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | 56.950°N 24.103°E ⓘ |
| hasOrgan | yes ⓘ |
| hasSpire | yes ⓘ |
| heritageCriteria | UNESCO criteria (i)(ii) (for the Historic Centre of Riga) ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Site component NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 13th century ⓘ |
| isCathedralOf | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Riga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Riga Old Town skyline ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Old Town of Riga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Riga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Riga Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Eastern European Summer Time
ⓘ
Eastern European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Daugava River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Riga Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed | brick ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint James the Greater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | Svētā Jēkaba katedrāle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeNameLanguage | Latvian ⓘ |
| partOf | Historic Centre of Riga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousDenomination |
Lutheran Church
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Protestantism ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| region | Vidzeme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
|
| rite | Latin Rite ⓘ |
| significantPeriod |
Hanseatic League era
ⓘ
Middle Ages ⓘ |
| spiresCount | 1 ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| usedBy | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Riga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural events
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religious services ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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. Jacob's Cathedral (Riga) Description of subject: St. Jacob's Cathedral in Riga is a historic Roman Catholic church and one of the prominent medieval religious buildings in the city's Old Town.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Old Town (Riga)
subject surface form:
Historic Centre of Riga
this entity surface form:
St Jacob’s Cathedral, Riga