St. Mary’s Church, Red Deer
E560214
St. Mary’s Church in Red Deer is a distinctive Roman Catholic church in Alberta, Canada, renowned for its organic, curvilinear architecture designed by Indigenous Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Mary’s Church, Red Deer canonical | 4 |
| St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Red Deer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5975039 — 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, Red Deer Context triple: [Douglas Cardinal, notableWork, St. Mary’s Church, Red Deer]
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A.
St. James Cathedral
St. James Cathedral is the principal Armenian Apostolic church in Jerusalem, renowned for its richly decorated interior and role as the spiritual center of the Armenian Patriarchate in the Old City.
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B.
St. Paul’s Anglican Church
St. Paul’s Anglican Church is a historic Anglican parish church and prominent architectural landmark located in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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C.
St. Mary’s Cathedral
St. Mary’s Cathedral in Hildesheim is a renowned Romanesque church in Germany, celebrated for its medieval architecture, historic artworks, and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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D.
St. James Cathedral, Toronto
St. James Cathedral in Toronto is a historic Anglican church and prominent downtown landmark known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the spiritual center of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto.
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E.
Regina Mundi Church
Regina Mundi Church is a prominent Roman Catholic church in Soweto, South Africa, historically known as a key gathering place and refuge during the anti-apartheid struggle.
- 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, Red Deer Target entity description: St. Mary’s Church in Red Deer is a distinctive Roman Catholic church in Alberta, Canada, renowned for its organic, curvilinear architecture designed by Indigenous Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal.
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A.
St. James Cathedral
St. James Cathedral is the principal Armenian Apostolic church in Jerusalem, renowned for its richly decorated interior and role as the spiritual center of the Armenian Patriarchate in the Old City.
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B.
St. Paul’s Anglican Church
St. Paul’s Anglican Church is a historic Anglican parish church and prominent architectural landmark located in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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C.
St. Mary’s Cathedral
St. Mary’s Cathedral in Hildesheim is a renowned Romanesque church in Germany, celebrated for its medieval architecture, historic artworks, and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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D.
St. James Cathedral, Toronto
St. James Cathedral in Toronto is a historic Anglican church and prominent downtown landmark known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the spiritual center of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto.
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E.
Regina Mundi Church
Regina Mundi Church is a prominent Roman Catholic church in Soweto, South Africa, historically known as a key gathering place and refuge during the anti-apartheid struggle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman Catholic church
ⓘ
building ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| architect | Douglas Cardinal ⓘ |
| architecturalCharacteristic |
curvilinear forms
ⓘ
flowing lines ⓘ sculptural concrete forms ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | organic architecture ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Mary, mother of Jesus
ⓘ
linked to:
Virgin Mary
|
| denomination |
Roman Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| hasAlternativeName |
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Red Deer
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Mary’s Church, Red Deer
|
| hasArchitect | Douglas Cardinal ⓘ |
| hasArchitectEthnicBackground |
Blackfoot (Douglas Cardinal heritage)
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Indigenous Canadian ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType | church building ⓘ |
| hasName | St. Mary’s Church ⓘ |
| hasParishFunction | local parish centre for Catholics in Red Deer ⓘ |
| heritageSignificance | example of late 20th-century organic church architecture in Canada ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Red Deer, Alberta
ⓘ
linked to:
Red Deer
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Alberta ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive organic, curvilinear design
ⓘ
innovative church architecture in Alberta ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman Catholic Diocese of Red Deer (de facto local diocesan structure; under Diocese of Calgary historically) ⓘ |
| religion |
Catholicism
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| usedFor |
Catholic liturgy
ⓘ
community gatherings ⓘ religious services ⓘ |
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, Red Deer Description of subject: St. Mary’s Church in Red Deer is a distinctive Roman Catholic church in Alberta, Canada, renowned for its organic, curvilinear architecture designed by Indigenous Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: St. Mary’s Church, Red Deer