St Mary's Church, Whitby
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St Mary's Church, Whitby is a historic parish church overlooking Whitby and its harbor, renowned for its hilltop setting beside the ruins of Whitby Abbey and its distinctive box pew interior.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St Mary’s Church, Whitby | 2 |
| St Mary's Church, Whitby canonical | 1 |
| St. Mary’s Church, Whitby | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6114389 — 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, Whitby Context triple: [Whitby, hasLandmark, St Mary's Church, Whitby]
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Whitby Abbey
Whitby Abbey is a ruined medieval Benedictine monastery on the North Yorkshire coast of England, famed for its dramatic clifftop setting, Gothic architecture, and association with Bram Stoker’s "Dracula."
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Wakefield Cathedral
Wakefield Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, notable for having the tallest church spire in Yorkshire and serving as the seat of the Bishop of Leeds.
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Church of St Wilfrid, Ripon
The Church of St Wilfrid in Ripon is a historic Anglican parish church dedicated to the 7th-century saint Wilfrid, reflecting the city’s long Christian heritage and medieval ecclesiastical significance.
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Kinghorn Parish Church
Kinghorn Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal town of Kinghorn in Fife, Scotland.
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Bury Parish Church
Bury Parish Church is a historic Anglican church in Bury, Greater Manchester, noted for its prominent tower and role as a focal point of the town’s religious and civic 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 Mary's Church, Whitby Target entity description: St Mary's Church, Whitby is a historic parish church overlooking Whitby and its harbor, renowned for its hilltop setting beside the ruins of Whitby Abbey and its distinctive box pew interior.
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A.
Whitby Abbey
Whitby Abbey is a ruined medieval Benedictine monastery on the North Yorkshire coast of England, famed for its dramatic clifftop setting, Gothic architecture, and association with Bram Stoker’s "Dracula."
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B.
Wakefield Cathedral
Wakefield Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, notable for having the tallest church spire in Yorkshire and serving as the seat of the Bishop of Leeds.
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C.
Church of St Wilfrid, Ripon
The Church of St Wilfrid in Ripon is a historic Anglican parish church dedicated to the 7th-century saint Wilfrid, reflecting the city’s long Christian heritage and medieval ecclesiastical significance.
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D.
Kinghorn Parish Church
Kinghorn Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal town of Kinghorn in Fife, Scotland.
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E.
Bury Parish Church
Bury Parish Church is a historic Anglican church in Bury, Greater Manchester, noted for its prominent tower and role as a focal point of the town’s religious and civic life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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, Whitby Description of subject: St Mary's Church, Whitby is a historic parish church overlooking Whitby and its harbor, renowned for its hilltop setting beside the ruins of Whitby Abbey and its distinctive box pew interior.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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