St Mary’s Church, West Wittering
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St Mary’s Church in West Wittering is a historic English parish church best known as the burial place of engineer and Rolls-Royce co-founder Sir Henry Royce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Mary’s Church, West Wittering canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6421911 — 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, West Wittering Context triple: [Henry Royce, burialPlace, St Mary’s Church, West Wittering]
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A.
St Mary’s Church, West Winch
St Mary’s Church, West Winch is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of West Winch, Norfolk, noted for its traditional English ecclesiastical architecture and local heritage significance.
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B.
Church of All Saints, Wrington
The Church of All Saints in Wrington is a historic Anglican parish church in Somerset, England, noted for its medieval architecture and prominent tower.
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C.
St Mary’s Church, Ringmer
St Mary’s Church, Ringmer is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Ringmer, East Sussex, known for its medieval origins and traditional English church architecture.
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D.
St Mary’s Church, Witney
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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E.
Portnahaven Parish Church
Portnahaven Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland building serving the coastal village of Portnahaven on the Isle of Islay, Scotland.
- 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, West Wittering Target entity description: St Mary’s Church in West Wittering is a historic English parish church best known as the burial place of engineer and Rolls-Royce co-founder Sir Henry Royce.
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A.
St Mary’s Church, West Winch
St Mary’s Church, West Winch is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of West Winch, Norfolk, noted for its traditional English ecclesiastical architecture and local heritage significance.
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B.
Church of All Saints, Wrington
The Church of All Saints in Wrington is a historic Anglican parish church in Somerset, England, noted for its medieval architecture and prominent tower.
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C.
St Mary’s Church, Ringmer
St Mary’s Church, Ringmer is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Ringmer, East Sussex, known for its medieval origins and traditional English church architecture.
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D.
St Mary’s Church, Witney
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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E.
Portnahaven Parish Church
Portnahaven Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland building serving the coastal village of Portnahaven on the Isle of Islay, Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Church of England church
ⓘ
parish church ⓘ |
| architecturalType | church ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Rolls-Royce Limited ⓘ |
| burialPlaceOf |
Sir Henry Royce
ⓘ
linked to:
Henry Royce
|
| country |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Mary ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| ecclesiasticalProvince | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | churchyard ⓘ |
| hasFunction | parish church ⓘ |
| hasGraveOf |
Sir Henry Royce
ⓘ
linked to:
Henry Royce
|
| heritageStatus | historic church ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chichester District
ⓘ
South East England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ West Sussex ⓘ West Wittering ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Chichester Harbour
ⓘ
English Channel ⓘ |
| notableBurial |
Sir Henry Royce
ⓘ
linked to:
Henry Royce
|
| notableFor | being burial place of Sir Henry Royce ⓘ |
| parish | West Wittering ⓘ |
| region | Diocese of Chichester ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Anglican services
ⓘ
Christian 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’s Church, West Wittering Description of subject: St Mary’s Church in West Wittering is a historic English parish church best known as the burial place of engineer and Rolls-Royce co-founder Sir Henry Royce.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.