High Kirk of Glasgow
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The High Kirk of Glasgow is a medieval Scottish cathedral renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish churches to have survived the Reformation intact.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| High Kirk of Glasgow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2012319 — 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: High Kirk of Glasgow Context triple: [Glasgow Cathedral, alsoKnownAs, High Kirk of Glasgow]
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A.
High Kirk of Edinburgh
The High Kirk of Edinburgh is the historic Church of Scotland parish church on the Royal Mile, better known as St Giles’ Cathedral and long associated with Scottish Reformation history and national ceremonies.
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B.
Hamish Kirk
Hamish Kirk is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Kirk, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
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C.
Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews
Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews, was the illegitimate son of King James IV of Scotland who became a prominent early 16th-century Scottish churchman and royal favorite before dying at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
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D.
Cuilén of Scotland
Cuilén of Scotland was a 10th-century King of Alba from the House of Alpin, whose short and turbulent reign ended with his death in battle around 971.
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E.
Alexander Kirkpatrick of Closeburn
Alexander Kirkpatrick of Closeburn was a prominent Scottish laird and historical figure associated with the leadership and legacy of Clan Kirkpatrick in Dumfriesshire.
- 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: High Kirk of Glasgow Target entity description: The High Kirk of Glasgow is a medieval Scottish cathedral renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish churches to have survived the Reformation intact.
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A.
High Kirk of Edinburgh
The High Kirk of Edinburgh is the historic Church of Scotland parish church on the Royal Mile, better known as St Giles’ Cathedral and long associated with Scottish Reformation history and national ceremonies.
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B.
Hamish Kirk
Hamish Kirk is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Kirk, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
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C.
Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews
Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews, was the illegitimate son of King James IV of Scotland who became a prominent early 16th-century Scottish churchman and royal favorite before dying at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
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D.
Cuilén of Scotland
Cuilén of Scotland was a 10th-century King of Alba from the House of Alpin, whose short and turbulent reign ended with his death in battle around 971.
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E.
Alexander Kirkpatrick of Closeburn
Alexander Kirkpatrick of Closeburn was a prominent Scottish laird and historical figure associated with the leadership and legacy of Clan Kirkpatrick in Dumfriesshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic church
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cathedral ⓘ church building ⓘ medieval cathedral ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Glasgow Cathedral
ⓘ
St Mungo’s Cathedral ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic architecture
ⓘ
Scottish Gothic ⓘ |
| cityCentreRelation | east of Glasgow city centre ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod |
12th century
ⓘ
13th century ⓘ 15th century ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Saint Kentigern
ⓘ
Saint Mungo ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of Scotland ⓘ |
| diocese |
Roman Catholic Diocese of Glasgow
ⓘ
surface form:
Diocese of Glasgow
|
| founded | 12th century ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Roman Catholic cathedral ⓘ |
| hasBurialOf | Saint Mungo ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
buttresses
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central tower ⓘ choir ⓘ crypt ⓘ nave ⓘ pointed arches ⓘ ribbed vaults ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ transepts ⓘ |
| heritageStatus |
Category A listed building
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scheduled monument ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Glasgow
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Glasgow City ⓘ mainland Scotland ⓘ |
| managedBy |
Church of Scotland
ⓘ
surface form:
Church of Scotland (congregation)
Historic Environment Scotland ⓘ
surface form:
Historic Environment Scotland (fabric)
|
| material | stone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the few mainland Scottish churches to survive the Reformation intact
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medieval stained glass and stonework ⓘ surviving the Scottish Reformation largely intact ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Historic Environment Scotland
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surface form:
Crown (through Historic Environment Scotland for structure)
|
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| status |
former Roman Catholic cathedral
ⓘ
parish church ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | Glasgow Necropolis ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
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civic ceremonies ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: High Kirk of Glasgow Description of subject: The High Kirk of Glasgow is a medieval Scottish cathedral renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish churches to have survived the Reformation intact.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.