St Mary Woolnoth
E54835
18th-century church building
Anglican church
Baroque church
Church of England parish church
Grade I listed building
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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Mary Woolnoth canonical | 3 |
| St Mary Woolnoth church | 2 |
| St Mary Woolnoth with St Mary Woolchurch Haw | 1 |
| St Mary Woolnoth, London | 1 |
| church of St Mary Woolnoth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T413015 — 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 Woolnoth Context triple: [Nicholas Hawksmoor, notableWork, St Mary Woolnoth]
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A.
Elie Parish Church
Elie Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal village of Elie in Fife, Scotland.
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B.
St George-in-the-East
St George-in-the-East is a Baroque Anglican church in London, renowned as one of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s distinctive early 18th-century churches.
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C.
Temple Church
Temple Church is a historic 12th-century church in London, originally built by the Knights Templar and renowned for its distinctive round nave and medieval effigies.
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D.
Christ Church, Spitalfields
Christ Church, Spitalfields is a prominent early 18th-century Anglican church in London, renowned as one of the finest examples of English Baroque architecture.
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E.
St Saviour, Southwark
St Saviour, Southwark was a historic parish and church area on the south bank of the River Thames in London, now largely encompassed by Southwark Cathedral and its surrounding district.
- 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 Woolnoth Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Elie Parish Church
Elie Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal village of Elie in Fife, Scotland.
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B.
St George-in-the-East
St George-in-the-East is a Baroque Anglican church in London, renowned as one of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s distinctive early 18th-century churches.
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C.
Temple Church
Temple Church is a historic 12th-century church in London, originally built by the Knights Templar and renowned for its distinctive round nave and medieval effigies.
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D.
Christ Church, Spitalfields
Christ Church, Spitalfields is a prominent early 18th-century Anglican church in London, renowned as one of the finest examples of English Baroque architecture.
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E.
St Saviour, Southwark
St Saviour, Southwark was a historic parish and church area on the south bank of the River Thames in London, now largely encompassed by Southwark Cathedral and its surrounding district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century church building
ⓘ
Anglican church ⓘ Baroque church ⓘ Church of England parish church ⓘ Grade I listed building ⓘ |
| architect | Nicholas Hawksmoor ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | English Baroque ⓘ |
| builtFor | Church of England ⓘ |
| completedIn | 1727 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1716 ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | WGS84 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Mary ⓘ |
| dedication | Virgin Mary ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of London ⓘ |
| governingBody | Church of England ⓘ |
| hasBells | yes ⓘ |
| hasDenominationStatus | active ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
barrel-vaulted interior
ⓘ
classical portico ⓘ crypt ⓘ monumental west front ⓘ twin west towers ⓘ |
| hasTower | yes ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade I listed ⓘ |
| heritageRegister |
National Heritage List for England entry
ⓘ
surface form:
National Heritage List for England
|
| liturgicalTradition | Anglican ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
City of London
ⓘ
England ⓘ City of London ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| material | stone ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
The Waste Land
ⓘ
surface form:
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
|
| near |
Bank junction
ⓘ
surface form:
Bank Junction
Bank Underground station ⓘ
surface form:
Bank Underground Station
|
| notableFor |
design by Nicholas Hawksmoor
ⓘ
striking Baroque architecture ⓘ |
| parish |
St Mary Woolnoth
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
St Mary Woolnoth with St Mary Woolchurch Haw
|
| province | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess |
Bank Underground station
ⓘ
surface form:
Bank Underground Station
|
| religiousAffiliation |
Anglicanism (broadly)
ⓘ
surface form:
Anglicanism
|
| replaced | Medieval church on the same site ⓘ |
| streetAddress | Lombard Street ⓘ |
| survived | Great Fire of London ⓘ |
| usedAs | place of Anglican worship ⓘ |
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 Woolnoth Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St Mary Woolnoth, London
this entity surface form:
St Mary Woolnoth church
this entity surface form:
St Mary Woolnoth with St Mary Woolchurch Haw
this entity surface form:
church of St Mary Woolnoth
this entity surface form:
St Mary Woolnoth church