St Mary Magdalene Church, Clitheroe
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St Mary Magdalene Church, Clitheroe is a historic Anglican parish church in the Lancashire market town of Clitheroe, noted for its prominent hilltop position and traditional Gothic-style architecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Parochial Church Council of Clitheroe | 1 |
| St Mary Magdalene Church, Clitheroe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1942751 — 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 Magdalene Church, Clitheroe Context triple: [Clitheroe, hasReligiousBuilding, St Mary Magdalene Church, Clitheroe]
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A.
Kinghorn Parish Church
Kinghorn Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal town of Kinghorn in Fife, Scotland.
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B.
St Mary’s Church, Rawtenstall
St Mary’s Church, Rawtenstall is a prominent Anglican parish church in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, noted for its historic architecture and role as a focal point of local religious and community life.
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C.
Malew Parish Church
Malew Parish Church is a historic Anglican church serving the parish of Malew on the Isle of Man, known for its traditional architecture and long-standing role in local religious life.
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D.
St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol is a renowned Gothic parish church celebrated for its striking architecture and rich maritime and civic history.
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E.
Holy Trinity Church, Morecambe
Holy Trinity Church, Morecambe is an Anglican parish church serving as a historic center of Christian worship and community life in the seaside town of Morecambe, Lancashire, England.
- 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 Magdalene Church, Clitheroe Target entity description: St Mary Magdalene Church, Clitheroe is a historic Anglican parish church in the Lancashire market town of Clitheroe, noted for its prominent hilltop position and traditional Gothic-style architecture.
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A.
Kinghorn Parish Church
Kinghorn Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal town of Kinghorn in Fife, Scotland.
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B.
St Mary’s Church, Rawtenstall
St Mary’s Church, Rawtenstall is a prominent Anglican parish church in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, noted for its historic architecture and role as a focal point of local religious and community life.
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C.
Malew Parish Church
Malew Parish Church is a historic Anglican church serving the parish of Malew on the Isle of Man, known for its traditional architecture and long-standing role in local religious life.
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D.
St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol is a renowned Gothic parish church celebrated for its striking architecture and rich maritime and civic history.
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E.
Holy Trinity Church, Morecambe
Holy Trinity Church, Morecambe is an Anglican parish church serving as a historic center of Christian worship and community life in the seaside town of Morecambe, Lancashire, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican parish church
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church building ⓘ listed building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic
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Gothic Revival ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Ribble Valley
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Churches in Lancashire ⓘ Grade II* listed churches in Lancashire ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Mary Magdalene ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Blackburn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | parish church ⓘ |
| governedBy |
St Mary Magdalene Church, Clitheroe
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Parochial Church Council of Clitheroe
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| hasCemetery | churchyard ⓘ |
| hasDenominationalHierarchy | Bishop of Blackburn ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
buttresses
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chancel ⓘ nave ⓘ pointed arches ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ tower ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade II* listed building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationBy | Historic England ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition |
Anglican rite
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surface form:
Church of England liturgy
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| locatedIn |
Clitheroe
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Lancashire ⓘ North West England ⓘ Ribble Valley ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Church Street, Clitheroe ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
prominent hilltop position
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traditional Gothic-style architecture ⓘ |
| parish | Clitheroe ⓘ |
| position | hilltop ⓘ |
| province | Province of York ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| servesCommunity | Clitheroe ⓘ |
| surroundings | Lancashire market town of Clitheroe ⓘ |
| tradition | Anglican ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Anglican services
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Christian worship ⓘ |
| visibleFrom |
Clitheroe
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surface form:
Clitheroe town centre
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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 Magdalene Church, Clitheroe Description of subject: St Mary Magdalene Church, Clitheroe is a historic Anglican parish church in the Lancashire market town of Clitheroe, noted for its prominent hilltop position and traditional Gothic-style architecture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
St Mary Magdalene Church, Clitheroe
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governedBy
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St Mary Magdalene Church, Clitheroe
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Parochial Church Council of Clitheroe