St Mary’s Church, Witney
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St Mary’s Church in Witney is a historic Anglican parish church noted for its medieval architecture and prominent spire dominating the town’s skyline in Oxfordshire, England.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Mary’s Church, Witney canonical | 2 |
| Church of St Mary the Virgin, Witney | 1 |
| St Mary the Virgin Church, Witney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5855831 — 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’s Church, Witney Context triple: [Witney, Oxfordshire, hasLandmark, St Mary’s Church, Witney]
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A.
St Mary’s Church
St Mary’s Church is a historic Christian parish church serving the community of St Neots in Cambridgeshire, England.
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B.
St Mary’s Church
St Mary’s Church is a small Anglican church serving the remote community of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas on Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic.
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C.
St Mary’s Church
St Mary’s Church is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, noted for its picturesque setting and distinctive monuments.
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D.
St Mary the Virgin Church, Chipping Norton
St Mary the Virgin Church in Chipping Norton is a historic Anglican parish church noted for its impressive medieval architecture and prominent position overlooking the Cotswold market town.
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E.
St Mary’s Church, Kidlington
St Mary’s Church, Kidlington is a historic Anglican parish church in Oxfordshire, England, noted for its prominent spire and medieval architecture.
- 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’s Church, Witney Target entity description: St Mary’s Church in Witney is a historic Anglican parish church noted for its medieval architecture and prominent spire dominating the town’s skyline in Oxfordshire, England.
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A.
St Mary’s Church
St Mary’s Church is a historic Christian parish church serving the community of St Neots in Cambridgeshire, England.
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B.
St Mary’s Church
St Mary’s Church is a small Anglican church serving the remote community of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas on Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic.
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C.
St Mary’s Church
St Mary’s Church is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, noted for its picturesque setting and distinctive monuments.
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D.
St Mary the Virgin Church, Chipping Norton
St Mary the Virgin Church in Chipping Norton is a historic Anglican parish church noted for its impressive medieval architecture and prominent position overlooking the Cotswold market town.
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E.
St Mary’s Church, Kidlington
St Mary’s Church, Kidlington is a historic Anglican parish church in Oxfordshire, England, noted for its prominent spire and medieval architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican parish church
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Grade I listed building ⓘ church building ⓘ |
| archdeaconry | Archdeaconry of Dorchester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| buildingType | parish church ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod | medieval period ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| deanery | Deanery of Witney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Mary ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dominates | Witney skyline ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalFeature |
aisles
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chancel ⓘ clerestory ⓘ nave ⓘ porch ⓘ spire ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ tower ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
Decorated Gothic
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Early English Gothic NERFINISHED ⓘ Gothic architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | churchyard ⓘ |
| hasDenominationBranch | Anglican ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade I listed ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationBy | Historic England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isHistoric | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
medieval architecture
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prominent spire ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition | Anglican ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Oxfordshire
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South East England ⓘ Witney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | River Windrush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| municipality | West Oxfordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| parish | Witney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | place of Christian worship ⓘ |
| province | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| region | Oxfordshire Cotswolds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
community events
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funerals ⓘ regular worship services ⓘ weddings ⓘ |
| usesLanguage | English ⓘ |
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’s Church, Witney Description of subject: St Mary’s Church in Witney is a historic Anglican parish church noted for its medieval architecture and prominent spire dominating the town’s skyline in Oxfordshire, England.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Witney
this entity surface form:
St Mary the Virgin Church, Witney