St Martin’s Church, Dorking
E139932
St Martin’s Church in Dorking is a prominent historic Anglican parish church noted for its distinctive tall spire and central role in the town’s religious and community life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Martin’s Church, Dorking canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1219501 — 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 Martin’s Church, Dorking Context triple: [Dorking, hasLandmark, St Martin’s Church, Dorking]
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St Mary’s Church, Reigate
St Mary’s Church, Reigate is a historic Anglican parish church in Reigate, Surrey, noted for its medieval origins and prominent role in the town’s religious and community life.
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B.
St Mary’s Church, Battersea, London
St Mary’s Church in Battersea, London, is a historic Anglican riverside church best known as the burial place of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold.
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C.
St Alfege Church
St Alfege Church is a historic Anglican church in Greenwich, London, notable as the site of Archbishop Alfege’s martyrdom and for its Baroque design by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
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D.
Church of St Martin
The Church of St Martin is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Bladon, Oxfordshire, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill and his family.
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E.
St Lawrence’s Church, Brentford
St Lawrence’s Church, Brentford is a historic Anglican church in Brentford, west London, noted for its longstanding role in the local community and its architectural heritage.
- 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 Martin’s Church, Dorking Target entity description: St Martin’s Church in Dorking is a prominent historic Anglican parish church noted for its distinctive tall spire and central role in the town’s religious and community life.
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A.
St Mary’s Church, Reigate
St Mary’s Church, Reigate is a historic Anglican parish church in Reigate, Surrey, noted for its medieval origins and prominent role in the town’s religious and community life.
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B.
St Mary’s Church, Battersea, London
St Mary’s Church in Battersea, London, is a historic Anglican riverside church best known as the burial place of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold.
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C.
St Alfege Church
St Alfege Church is a historic Anglican church in Greenwich, London, notable as the site of Archbishop Alfege’s martyrdom and for its Baroque design by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
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D.
Church of St Martin
The Church of St Martin is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Bladon, Oxfordshire, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill and his family.
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E.
St Lawrence’s Church, Brentford
St Lawrence’s Church, Brentford is a historic Anglican church in Brentford, west London, noted for its longstanding role in the local community and its architectural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican parish church
ⓘ
Grade II* listed building ⓘ church building ⓘ |
| affiliation | Anglican Communion ⓘ |
| archdeaconry | Archdeaconry of Dorking ⓘ |
| buildingMaterial | stone ⓘ |
| category |
Church of England church buildings in Surrey
ⓘ
Churches in Surrey ⓘ Grade II* listed churches in Surrey ⓘ |
| churchmanship | Broad Church ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deanery | Dorking Deanery ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Martin of Tours
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Martin of Tours
|
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Guildford ⓘ |
| function |
community venue
ⓘ
place of Christian worship ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
Gothic Revival
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surface form:
Gothic Revival architecture
|
| hasArchitecturalType | parish church ⓘ |
| hasClergyType | vicar ⓘ |
| hasParishStatus | active ⓘ |
| hasSpire | yes ⓘ |
| hasTowerOrSpire | spire ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.stmartinsdorking.org ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade II* listed ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationDate | 11 June 1958 ⓘ |
| isInTownCentre | true ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition | Anglican liturgy ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dorking
ⓘ
England ⓘ Mole Valley ⓘ Surrey ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Martin of Tours
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Martin of Tours
|
| notableFeature |
landmark in Dorking town centre
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tall spire ⓘ |
| parish |
Dorking
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surface form:
Dorking, St Martin
|
| province | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Anglican ⓘ |
| roleInCommunity |
central to community life of Dorking
ⓘ
central to religious life of Dorking ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Anglican worship services
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baptisms ⓘ community events ⓘ concerts ⓘ funerals ⓘ weddings ⓘ |
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 Martin’s Church, Dorking Description of subject: St Martin’s Church in Dorking is a prominent historic Anglican parish church noted for its distinctive tall spire and central role in the town’s religious and community life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.