St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena
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St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena is an Anglican parish church serving the local community in the town of Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena canonical | 2 |
| Church of Ireland parish of Ballymena | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1969007 — 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 Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena Context triple: [Ballymena, hasReligiousBuilding, St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena]
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A.
St Michael’s Church of Ireland
St Michael’s Church of Ireland is an Anglican parish church serving the local Church of Ireland community in the town of Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland.
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B.
St Muredach’s Cathedral
St Muredach’s Cathedral is a prominent Roman Catholic cathedral in Ballina, County Mayo, known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the seat of the Diocese of Killala.
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C.
St Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney
St Mary’s Cathedral in Killarney is a prominent 19th-century Roman Catholic cathedral in County Kerry, Ireland, renowned for its Gothic Revival architecture.
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D.
St Michael’s Church, Ballintemple
St Michael’s Church, Ballintemple is a historic Christian church located in the Ballintemple area of Cork city in County Cork, Ireland.
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E.
Cill Phádraig
Cill Phádraig is an Irish place name meaning "Patrick's church," from which the anglicized name Kilpatrick is derived.
- 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 Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena Target entity description: St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena is an Anglican parish church serving the local community in the town of Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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A.
St Michael’s Church of Ireland
St Michael’s Church of Ireland is an Anglican parish church serving the local Church of Ireland community in the town of Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland.
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B.
St Muredach’s Cathedral
St Muredach’s Cathedral is a prominent Roman Catholic cathedral in Ballina, County Mayo, known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the seat of the Diocese of Killala.
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C.
St Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney
St Mary’s Cathedral in Killarney is a prominent 19th-century Roman Catholic cathedral in County Kerry, Ireland, renowned for its Gothic Revival architecture.
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D.
St Michael’s Church, Ballintemple
St Michael’s Church, Ballintemple is a historic Christian church located in the Ballintemple area of Cork city in County Cork, Ireland.
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E.
Cill Phádraig
Cill Phádraig is an Irish place name meaning "Patrick's church," from which the anglicized name Kilpatrick is derived.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican parish church
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church building ⓘ |
| associatedReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| buildingType | church ⓘ |
| category |
Anglican church in Northern Ireland
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Church of Ireland church building in County Antrim ⓘ |
| ChristianDenomination | Protestant ⓘ |
| country | Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| denomination |
Anglicanism (broadly)
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surface form:
Anglican
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| ecclesiasticalJurisdiction |
St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Church of Ireland parish of Ballymena
|
| languageOfWorship | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ballymena
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County Antrim ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Patrick ⓘ |
| parishType | parish church ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | place of Christian worship ⓘ |
| province | Ulster ⓘ |
| region | County Antrim ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Church of Ireland ⓘ |
| serves | local community of Ballymena ⓘ |
| town | Ballymena ⓘ |
| tradition | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Anglican worship
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community activities ⓘ religious 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 Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena Description of subject: St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena is an Anglican parish church serving the local community in the town of Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland
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hasReligiousBuilding
→
St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena
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subject surface form:
Ballymena
St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena
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ecclesiasticalJurisdiction
→
St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Ballymena
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Church of Ireland parish of Ballymena