St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
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St. Thomas Church in Leipzig is a historic Lutheran church renowned as the longtime workplace and burial site of composer Johann Sebastian Bach and as the home of the famed Thomanerchor boys' choir.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T419073 — 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. Thomas Church, Leipzig Context triple: [Johann Sebastian Bach, employer, St. Thomas Church, Leipzig]
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Theatinerkirche, Munich
The Theatinerkirche in Munich is a prominent 17th-century Baroque Catholic church known for its striking yellow façade and role as a traditional burial site of Bavarian royalty.
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English Church in Wittenberg
The English Church in Wittenberg was a Reformation-era Protestant congregation in Wittenberg that served as a religious and intellectual center for English exiles and theologians connected to the early English Reformation.
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St. Elisabeth Church
St. Elisabeth Church is a Christian place of worship, likely of historical and architectural significance, that serves as a notable landmark in its locality.
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Nieuwe Kerk
Nieuwe Kerk is a historic 15th-century church in central Amsterdam, renowned for royal inaugurations, important exhibitions, and notable tombs of Dutch figures.
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Frederik Lutheran Church
Frederik Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church in Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, known for its colonial-era architecture and long-standing role in the island’s religious life.
- 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. Thomas Church, Leipzig Target entity description: St. Thomas Church in Leipzig is a historic Lutheran church renowned as the longtime workplace and burial site of composer Johann Sebastian Bach and as the home of the famed Thomanerchor boys' choir.
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A.
Theatinerkirche, Munich
The Theatinerkirche in Munich is a prominent 17th-century Baroque Catholic church known for its striking yellow façade and role as a traditional burial site of Bavarian royalty.
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B.
English Church in Wittenberg
The English Church in Wittenberg was a Reformation-era Protestant congregation in Wittenberg that served as a religious and intellectual center for English exiles and theologians connected to the early English Reformation.
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C.
St. Elisabeth Church
St. Elisabeth Church is a Christian place of worship, likely of historical and architectural significance, that serves as a notable landmark in its locality.
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Nieuwe Kerk
Nieuwe Kerk is a historic 15th-century church in central Amsterdam, renowned for royal inaugurations, important exhibitions, and notable tombs of Dutch figures.
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Frederik Lutheran Church
Frederik Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church in Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, known for its colonial-era architecture and long-standing role in the island’s religious life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lutheran church
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church building ⓘ landmark ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic architecture
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Decorated Gothic ⓘ
surface form:
Late Gothic architecture
|
| associatedWith |
Felix Mendelssohn
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surface form:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Johann Sebastian Bach ⓘ Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra ⓘ Thomanerchor ⓘ |
| category |
Churches in Leipzig
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Johann Sebastian Bach sites ⓘ Lutheran churches in Saxony ⓘ |
| city | Leipzig ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| denomination | Evangelical-Lutheran ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Roman Catholic church ⓘ |
| function | parish church ⓘ |
| hasChoir | Thomanerchor ⓘ |
| hasOrgan | pipe organ ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Bach grave
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Bach memorial inside the church ⓘ St. Thomas Church choir stalls ⓘ St. Thomas Church nave ⓘ St. Thomas Church tower ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | cultural heritage monument in Leipzig ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected monument ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Lutheran church music tradition
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association with Johann Sebastian Bach ⓘ burial site of Johann Sebastian Bach ⓘ home of the Thomanerchor boys' choir ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Germany
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Leipzig ⓘ Saxony ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
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Central European Time ⓘ |
| municipality | Leipzig ⓘ |
| musicDirectorTitle | Thomaskantor ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Apostle Thomas
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Thomas the Apostle
|
| notableClergy |
Johann Hermann Schein
ⓘ
Johann Kuhnau ⓘ Johann Sebastian Bach ⓘ Karl Straube ⓘ |
| parish |
St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Evangelical-Lutheran St. Thomas parish, Leipzig
|
| primaryUse | Christian worship ⓘ |
| religion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| secondaryUse | concert venue ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| tradition | Lutheran liturgical music ⓘ |
| uses | German language in services ⓘ |
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. Thomas Church, Leipzig Description of subject: St. Thomas Church in Leipzig is a historic Lutheran church renowned as the longtime workplace and burial site of composer Johann Sebastian Bach and as the home of the famed Thomanerchor boys' choir.
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this entity surface form:
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Thomaskirche, Leipzig
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Thomaskirche, Leipzig
this entity surface form:
Thomaskirche, Leipzig
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this entity surface form:
Thomaskirche, Leipzig
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this entity surface form:
Thomaskirche, Leipzig
this entity surface form:
Thomaskirche, Leipzig