Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster

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Anglican church Gothic abbey church World Heritage Site tourist attraction

The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, commonly known as Westminster Abbey, is a historic Gothic church in London renowned as the traditional site of English and later British coronations, royal weddings, and burials.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Westminster Abbey	180
Chapel of St Edmund, Westminster Abbey	1
Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster canonical	1
Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey	1
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster	1
collegiate church of St Peter at Westminster	1
collegiate church of St Peter, Westminster	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1119688 — 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: Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster
Context triple: [Dean of Westminster, basedIn, Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster]

A. Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster
Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster is a historic Anglican parish church in London, situated next to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, long associated with parliamentary worship and notable state occasions.
B. Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Cathedral is the principal Roman Catholic church in England and Wales, renowned for its Neo-Byzantine architecture and prominent location in central London.
C. Great Minster House, London
Great Minster House in London is a government office building best known as the main headquarters of the UK Department for Transport.
D. King's College Chapel
King's College Chapel is a renowned late Gothic chapel at the University of Cambridge, celebrated for its magnificent fan vaulting, stained glass windows, and choral tradition.
E. 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.
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: Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster
Target entity description: The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, commonly known as Westminster Abbey, is a historic Gothic church in London renowned as the traditional site of English and later British coronations, royal weddings, and burials.

A. Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster
Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster is a historic Anglican parish church in London, situated next to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, long associated with parliamentary worship and notable state occasions.
B. Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Cathedral is the principal Roman Catholic church in England and Wales, renowned for its Neo-Byzantine architecture and prominent location in central London.
C. Great Minster House, London
Great Minster House in London is a government office building best known as the main headquarters of the UK Department for Transport.
D. King's College Chapel
King's College Chapel is a renowned late Gothic chapel at the University of Cambridge, celebrated for its magnificent fan vaulting, stained glass windows, and choral tradition.
E. 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.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Anglican church ⓘ Gothic abbey church ⓘ World Heritage Site ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Westminster Abbey, London ⓘ surface form: Westminster Abbey
architecturalStyle	Gothic architecture ⓘ
burialPlaceOf	Charles Darwin ⓘ Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ Isaac Newton ⓘ many English monarchs ⓘ
churchmanship	Anglican ⓘ
consecrationYear	1065 ⓘ
contains	Chapter House ⓘ Lady Chapel ⓘ Poets’ Corner ⓘ
coronationChairHoused	Coronation Chair ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
currentMonarchAssociated	Charles Philip Arthur George ⓘ surface form: Charles III
dedicatedTo	Apostle Peter ⓘ surface form: Saint Peter
denomination	Church of England ⓘ
foundedBy	Edward the Confessor ⓘ
foundingDate	11th century ⓘ
function	royal peculiar ⓘ
governedBy	Dean and Chapter of Westminster ⓘ
hasChoir	Westminster Abbey Choir ⓘ surface form: Choir of Westminster Abbey
heritageDesignation	Grade I listed building ⓘ
heritageStatus	UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
knownFor	Poets’ Corner ⓘ royal burials ⓘ royal weddings ⓘ site of British coronations ⓘ site of English coronations ⓘ
liturgicalTradition	Anglican liturgy ⓘ
locatedIn	City of Westminster ⓘ England ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London
monarchTitle	Supreme Head of the Church of England ⓘ surface form: Supreme Governor of the Church of England
musicTradition	choral music ⓘ
near	Palace of Westminster ⓘ Parliament Square ⓘ Palace of Westminster ⓘ surface form: Westminster Hall
partOf	Westminster World Heritage Site ⓘ
primaryUse	Christian worship ⓘ
rebuiltIn	13th century ⓘ
rebuiltUnder	Henry III of England ⓘ
secondaryUse	state ceremonies ⓘ tourism ⓘ
traditionalName	Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster

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Referenced by (186)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham → burialPlace → Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster ⓘ