St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh
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St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh is a prominent 19th-century Gothic Revival Anglican cathedral known for its striking spires and role as the mother church of the Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Edinburgh.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7395003 — 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 Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh Context triple: [Robert Rowand Anderson, notableWork, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh]
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St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh is a historic Church of Scotland landmark on the Royal Mile, renowned as the High Kirk of Edinburgh and noted for its distinctive crown steeple and rich religious and civic heritage.
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B.
St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh
St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh is a historic Scottish church noted for its ancient parish roots and as the burial place of mathematician and logarithm inventor John Napier.
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C.
St Peter’s Church, Edinburgh
St Peter’s Church, Edinburgh is a 19th-century Scottish church notable for its historic architecture by prominent architect William Burn.
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D.
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral is a ruined medieval cathedral in St Andrews, Scotland, that was once the largest and most important church in the country and a major center of pilgrimage.
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E.
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral is a medieval Scottish church in Glasgow renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish cathedrals to have survived the Reformation largely intact.
- 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 Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh Target entity description: St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh is a prominent 19th-century Gothic Revival Anglican cathedral known for its striking spires and role as the mother church of the Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Edinburgh.
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A.
St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh is a historic Church of Scotland landmark on the Royal Mile, renowned as the High Kirk of Edinburgh and noted for its distinctive crown steeple and rich religious and civic heritage.
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B.
St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh
St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh is a historic Scottish church noted for its ancient parish roots and as the burial place of mathematician and logarithm inventor John Napier.
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C.
St Peter’s Church, Edinburgh
St Peter’s Church, Edinburgh is a 19th-century Scottish church notable for its historic architecture by prominent architect William Burn.
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D.
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral is a ruined medieval cathedral in St Andrews, Scotland, that was once the largest and most important church in the country and a major center of pilgrimage.
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E.
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral is a medieval Scottish church in Glasgow renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish cathedrals to have survived the Reformation largely intact.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican cathedral
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Gothic Revival church building ⓘ cathedral ⓘ listed building ⓘ |
| architect |
George Gilbert Scott
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Oldrid Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Gothic Revival ⓘ |
| bishopSeatOf | Bishop of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
19th-century church buildings in Scotland
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Anglican cathedrals in Scotland ⓘ Churches in Edinburgh ⓘ Gothic Revival architecture in Scotland ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1917 ⓘ |
| consecrationYear | 1879 ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | sandstone ⓘ |
| coordinates | 55.949°N 3.209°W ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Mary ⓘ |
| denomination | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | cathedral church ⓘ |
| governingBody | Chapter of St Mary’s Cathedral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| groundbreakingDate | 1874 ⓘ |
| hasChoir | cathedral choir ⓘ |
| hasCloister | yes ⓘ |
| hasOrgan | pipe organ ⓘ |
| hasSchool | St Mary’s Music School (on the cathedral precinct) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Category A listed building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationDate | 1970 ⓘ |
| inception | 1879 ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition | Anglican NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Diocese of Edinburgh
NERFINISHED
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Edinburgh ⓘ New Town, Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherChurchOf | Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicTradition | choral ⓘ |
| notableFeature | three prominent spires ⓘ |
| numberOfSpires | 3 ⓘ |
| primaryUse | Christian worship ⓘ |
| province | Scottish Episcopal Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Scottish Episcopal Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| streetAddress | Palmerston Place NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| towerHeight | about 90 metres ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh Description of subject: St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh is a prominent 19th-century Gothic Revival Anglican cathedral known for its striking spires and role as the mother church of the Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Edinburgh.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.