St. Mary’s Church, Greifswald
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St. Mary’s Church in Greifswald is a prominent medieval Brick Gothic parish church and city landmark known for its towering spire and historical significance in northern Germany.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Mary’s Church, Greifswald canonical | 1 |
| St.-Marien-Kirche Greifswald | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6590124 — 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, Greifswald Context triple: [Greifswald, hasLandmark, St. Mary’s Church, Greifswald]
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A.
St. Mary’s Church, Rostock
St. Mary’s Church in Rostock is a prominent Brick Gothic parish church and former city church, renowned for its medieval architecture and historic astronomical clock.
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B.
Greifswald Cathedral
Greifswald Cathedral is a historic Brick Gothic church in the German city of Greifswald, notable for its towering spire and role as a prominent symbol of the region’s medieval Hanseatic heritage.
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C.
St. Aegidien Church, Lübeck
St. Aegidien Church in Lübeck is a historic Lutheran parish church and one of the city’s notable medieval brick Gothic churches.
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D.
St. Peter’s Church, Lübeck
St. Peter’s Church in Lübeck is a historic Gothic brick church and former parish church, notable for its towering spire and panoramic views over the medieval Hanseatic city.
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E.
St. Mary’s Church, Torgau
St. Mary’s Church in Torgau is a historic Lutheran church in Saxony, Germany, notable as the burial site of Katharina von Bora, the wife of Martin Luther.
- 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, Greifswald Target entity description: St. Mary’s Church in Greifswald is a prominent medieval Brick Gothic parish church and city landmark known for its towering spire and historical significance in northern Germany.
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A.
St. Mary’s Church, Rostock
St. Mary’s Church in Rostock is a prominent Brick Gothic parish church and former city church, renowned for its medieval architecture and historic astronomical clock.
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B.
Greifswald Cathedral
Greifswald Cathedral is a historic Brick Gothic church in the German city of Greifswald, notable for its towering spire and role as a prominent symbol of the region’s medieval Hanseatic heritage.
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C.
St. Aegidien Church, Lübeck
St. Aegidien Church in Lübeck is a historic Lutheran parish church and one of the city’s notable medieval brick Gothic churches.
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D.
St. Peter’s Church, Lübeck
St. Peter’s Church in Lübeck is a historic Gothic brick church and former parish church, notable for its towering spire and panoramic views over the medieval Hanseatic city.
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E.
St. Mary’s Church, Torgau
St. Mary’s Church in Torgau is a historic Lutheran church in Saxony, Germany, notable as the burial site of Katharina von Bora, the wife of Martin Luther.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brick Gothic church
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church building ⓘ landmark ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Brick Gothic ⓘ |
| associatedWith | history of the Hanseatic city of Greifswald ⓘ |
| category |
Brick Gothic churches in Germany
ⓘ
Buildings and structures in Greifswald ⓘ Lutheran churches in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ⓘ Tourist attractions in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| dedication | Saint Mary ⓘ |
| denomination | Evangelical Lutheran Church ⓘ |
| function |
parish church of the old town of Greifswald
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place of worship ⓘ |
| GermanName |
St.-Marien-Kirche Greifswald
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linked to:
St. Mary’s Church, Greifswald
|
| hasPart |
choir
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nave ⓘ side aisles ⓘ spire ⓘ tower ⓘ |
| hasUse | viewing point from tower ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | cultural heritage monument in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected monument ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialName | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Greifswald
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ⓘ historic Hanseatic city of Greifswald ⓘ northern Germany ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Germany
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| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
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Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Greifswald marketplace ⓘ |
| material | brick ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Mary, mother of Jesus
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linked to:
Virgin Mary
|
| notableFor |
medieval architecture
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role as city landmark ⓘ towering spire ⓘ |
| partOf |
historic centre of Greifswald
ⓘ
linked to:
historic center of Greifswald
|
| region | Pomerania ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
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linked to:
Protestant Christianity
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| usedFor |
concerts
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religious services ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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, Greifswald Description of subject: St. Mary’s Church in Greifswald is a prominent medieval Brick Gothic parish church and city landmark known for its towering spire and historical significance in northern Germany.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: St. Mary’s Church, Greifswald