Hollis Street Church, Boston
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Hollis Street Church in Boston was a prominent 19th-century Unitarian congregation known for its influential ministers and role in the city’s religious and civic life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hollis Street Church, Boston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12921945 — 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: Hollis Street Church, Boston Context triple: [Thomas Starr King, employer, Hollis Street Church, Boston]
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A.
Third Church in Boston
Third Church in Boston was a historic Puritan congregation in colonial Boston that later became known as Old South Church, one of the city’s most prominent and influential churches.
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B.
Park Street Church
Park Street Church is a historic Congregational church in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, renowned for its early 19th-century architecture and its role in significant social and religious movements in American history.
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C.
Roxbury Congregational Church
Roxbury Congregational Church is a historic Protestant church and prominent community landmark located in the town of Roxbury, Connecticut.
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D.
Boston Avenue Methodist Church
Boston Avenue Methodist Church is a historic Art Deco Methodist church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, renowned for its distinctive architecture and status as a National Historic Landmark.
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E.
Church of the Disciples, Boston
The Church of the Disciples in Boston was a pioneering 19th-century Unitarian congregation known for its progressive theology, social reform activism, and influential role in American liberal religion.
- 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: Hollis Street Church, Boston Target entity description: Hollis Street Church in Boston was a prominent 19th-century Unitarian congregation known for its influential ministers and role in the city’s religious and civic life.
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A.
Third Church in Boston
Third Church in Boston was a historic Puritan congregation in colonial Boston that later became known as Old South Church, one of the city’s most prominent and influential churches.
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B.
Park Street Church
Park Street Church is a historic Congregational church in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, renowned for its early 19th-century architecture and its role in significant social and religious movements in American history.
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C.
Roxbury Congregational Church
Roxbury Congregational Church is a historic Protestant church and prominent community landmark located in the town of Roxbury, Connecticut.
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D.
Boston Avenue Methodist Church
Boston Avenue Methodist Church is a historic Art Deco Methodist church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, renowned for its distinctive architecture and status as a National Historic Landmark.
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E.
Church of the Disciples, Boston
The Church of the Disciples in Boston was a pioneering 19th-century Unitarian congregation known for its progressive theology, social reform activism, and influential role in American liberal religion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unitarian church
ⓘ
historic church ⓘ |
| affiliation | Unitarian movement in New England ⓘ |
| centuryOfGreatestProminence | 19th century ⓘ |
| city |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| denomination | Unitarian ⓘ |
| hasClergyType | Unitarian ministers ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
community gathering place
ⓘ
place of worship ⓘ site of civic events ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfWorship | English ⓘ |
| hasTheologicalOrientation | liberal ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century United States ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Unitarian history in the United States
ⓘ
religious history of Boston ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
Massachusetts ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedOn | Hollis Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential ministers
ⓘ
prominent 19th-century Unitarian congregation ⓘ role in Boston’s civic life ⓘ role in Boston’s religious life ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Boston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Liberal Christianity ⓘ |
| roleInSociety |
civic leadership in Boston
ⓘ
religious leadership in Boston ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | religious congregation ⓘ |
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: Hollis Street Church, Boston Description of subject: Hollis Street Church in Boston was a prominent 19th-century Unitarian congregation known for its influential ministers and role in the city’s religious and civic life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.