Gamla Uppsala church
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Gamla Uppsala Church is a medieval church in Old Uppsala, Sweden, built on the site of a former pagan temple and central to the area’s religious and historical heritage.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gamla Uppsala church canonical | 3 |
| Old Uppsala | 3 |
| Gamla Uppsala Church | 2 |
| Uppsala temple | 2 |
| Gamla Uppsala temple | 1 |
| Temple at Uppsala | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8167458 — 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: Gamla Uppsala church Context triple: [Gamla Uppsala burial mounds, nearbyFeature, Gamla Uppsala church]
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A.
Uppsala Cathedral
Uppsala Cathedral is a large Gothic-style Lutheran church in Uppsala, Sweden, and one of the most historically significant and tallest cathedrals in Scandinavia.
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B.
Botkyrka Church
Botkyrka Church is a historic medieval church in Botkyrka, Sweden, known for giving its name to the surrounding municipality and for its long-standing role as a local religious and cultural landmark.
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C.
Linköping Cathedral
Linköping Cathedral is a prominent medieval Gothic church in Linköping, Sweden, known as one of the country’s largest and best-preserved cathedrals.
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D.
Ekerö Church
Ekerö Church is a historic parish church in Ekerö Municipality, Sweden, known for its medieval origins and traditional Scandinavian ecclesiastical architecture.
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E.
Kalmar Cathedral
Kalmar Cathedral is a prominent 17th-century Baroque church in the Swedish city of Kalmar, renowned for its well-preserved architecture and historical significance.
- 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: Gamla Uppsala church Target entity description: Gamla Uppsala Church is a medieval church in Old Uppsala, Sweden, built on the site of a former pagan temple and central to the area’s religious and historical heritage.
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A.
Uppsala Cathedral
Uppsala Cathedral is a large Gothic-style Lutheran church in Uppsala, Sweden, and one of the most historically significant and tallest cathedrals in Scandinavia.
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B.
Botkyrka Church
Botkyrka Church is a historic medieval church in Botkyrka, Sweden, known for giving its name to the surrounding municipality and for its long-standing role as a local religious and cultural landmark.
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C.
Linköping Cathedral
Linköping Cathedral is a prominent medieval Gothic church in Linköping, Sweden, known as one of the country’s largest and best-preserved cathedrals.
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D.
Ekerö Church
Ekerö Church is a historic parish church in Ekerö Municipality, Sweden, known for its medieval origins and traditional Scandinavian ecclesiastical architecture.
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E.
Kalmar Cathedral
Kalmar Cathedral is a prominent 17th-century Baroque church in the Swedish city of Kalmar, renowned for its well-preserved architecture and historical significance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Church of Sweden church
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church building ⓘ medieval church ⓘ |
| affiliation | Church of Sweden ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic architecture
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Romanesque architecture ⓘ |
| builtOnSiteOf | former pagan temple ⓘ |
| completionDate | 13th century ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 12th century ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| denomination | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| diocese | Archdiocese of Uppsala ⓘ |
| era | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chancel
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church tower ⓘ nave ⓘ sacristy ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | protected church building in Sweden ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | cultural heritage site ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
center of Christian worship in Old Uppsala
ⓘ
successor to pre-Christian cult site at Uppsala ⓘ |
| interiorFeature |
altarpiece
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medieval baptismal font ⓘ medieval murals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorship | Swedish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gamla Uppsala
ⓘ
Uppland ⓘ Uppsala County ⓘ Uppsala Municipality ⓘ
linked to:
Uppsala
historical province of Uppland ⓘ
linked to:
province of Uppland
|
| locatedNear | Uppsala ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| municipality |
Uppsala Municipality
ⓘ
linked to:
Uppsala
|
| nearbyFeature |
Gamla Uppsala museum
ⓘ
linked to:
Gamla Uppsala Museum
Royal Mounds of Gamla Uppsala ⓘ
linked to:
Gamla Uppsala burial mounds
|
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Church of Sweden ⓘ |
| parish | Gamla Uppsala Parish ⓘ |
| previousReligiousSite | pagan temple at Uppsala ⓘ |
| region | Uppsala County ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousFunction | parish church ⓘ |
| significance |
important site in Swedish national history
ⓘ
important site in Swedish religious history ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
ⓘ
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: Gamla Uppsala church Description of subject: Gamla Uppsala Church is a medieval church in Old Uppsala, Sweden, built on the site of a former pagan temple and central to the area’s religious and historical heritage.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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