St. Mary’s Church, Hendon
E148410
St. Mary’s Church, Hendon is a historic parish church in Hendon, London, best known as the burial place of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of modern Singapore.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Mary’s Church, Hendon | 2 |
| St. Mary’s Church, Hendon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1151450 — 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, Hendon Context triple: [Thomas Stamford Raffles, burialPlace, St. Mary’s Church, Hendon]
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A.
St Mary’s Church, Harrow on the Hill
St Mary’s Church, Harrow on the Hill is a historic medieval parish church in Harrow, London, renowned for its hilltop setting and extensive views over the city.
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B.
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.
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C.
St Paul’s Church, Brentford
St Paul’s Church, Brentford is a historic Anglican church in the west London district of Brentford, noted for serving as a prominent local place of worship and community landmark.
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D.
St Michael’s Church, Highgate
St Michael’s Church, Highgate is a historic Anglican church in north London best known as the burial place of Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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E.
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.
- 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, Hendon Target entity description: St. Mary’s Church, Hendon is a historic parish church in Hendon, London, best known as the burial place of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of modern Singapore.
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A.
St Mary’s Church, Harrow on the Hill
St Mary’s Church, Harrow on the Hill is a historic medieval parish church in Harrow, London, renowned for its hilltop setting and extensive views over the city.
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B.
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.
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C.
St Paul’s Church, Brentford
St Paul’s Church, Brentford is a historic Anglican church in the west London district of Brentford, noted for serving as a prominent local place of worship and community landmark.
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D.
St Michael’s Church, Highgate
St Michael’s Church, Highgate is a historic Anglican church in north London best known as the burial place of Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican church
ⓘ
British colonial administrator ⓘ church building ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| architecturalType | church ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
history of Hendon
ⓘ
history of London ⓘ |
| buriedAt | St. Mary’s Church, Hendon self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Mary ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of London ⓘ |
| function | place of Christian worship ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | churchyard ⓘ |
| hasDenominationBranch | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| hasFeature | graveyard ⓘ |
| hasGraveOf |
Thomas Stamford Raffles
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surface form:
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
|
| hasHeritageStatus | listed building ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial |
Thomas Stamford Raffles
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surface form:
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
|
| heritage | historic parish church ⓘ |
| knownFor | founder of modern Singapore ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Hendon ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
London Borough of Barnet ⓘ north London ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Hendon
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surface form:
Hendon Park
|
| notableFor | burial place of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles ⓘ |
| parish | Hendon ⓘ |
| province | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| usedFor |
baptisms
ⓘ
funerals ⓘ weddings ⓘ worship services ⓘ |
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, Hendon Description of subject: St. Mary’s Church, Hendon is a historic parish church in Hendon, London, best known as the burial place of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of modern Singapore.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Spencer Perceval
this entity surface form:
St Mary’s Church, Hendon
subject surface form:
Hendon
this entity surface form:
St Mary’s Church, Hendon
subject surface form:
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles