St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (design)
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St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh is a prominent 19th-century Gothic Revival Anglican cathedral designed by the renowned Victorian architect Sir George Gilbert Scott.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (design) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2494049 — 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 Cathedral, Edinburgh (design) Context triple: [George Gilbert Scott, notableWork, St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (design)]
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St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh is a historic Church of Scotland landmark on the Royal Mile, renowned as the High Kirk of Edinburgh and noted for its distinctive crown steeple and rich religious and civic heritage.
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B.
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral is a medieval Scottish church in Glasgow renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish cathedrals to have survived the Reformation largely intact.
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C.
St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
St Andrew's House in Edinburgh is a prominent Art Deco government building that serves as the main administrative base of Scotland's devolved government.
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D.
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral is a ruined medieval cathedral in St Andrews, Scotland, that was once the largest and most important church in the country and a major center of pilgrimage.
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E.
St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth
St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth is a 19th-century Scottish Episcopal cathedral known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the mother church of the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
- 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 Cathedral, Edinburgh (design) Target entity description: St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh is a prominent 19th-century Gothic Revival Anglican cathedral designed by the renowned Victorian architect Sir George Gilbert Scott.
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A.
St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh is a historic Church of Scotland landmark on the Royal Mile, renowned as the High Kirk of Edinburgh and noted for its distinctive crown steeple and rich religious and civic heritage.
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B.
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral is a medieval Scottish church in Glasgow renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish cathedrals to have survived the Reformation largely intact.
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C.
St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
St Andrew's House in Edinburgh is a prominent Art Deco government building that serves as the main administrative base of Scotland's devolved government.
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D.
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral is a ruined medieval cathedral in St Andrews, Scotland, that was once the largest and most important church in the country and a major center of pilgrimage.
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E.
St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth
St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth is a 19th-century Scottish Episcopal cathedral known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the mother church of the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century church building
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Anglican cathedral ⓘ Gothic Revival church building ⓘ architect ⓘ |
| architect |
George Gilbert Scott
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surface form:
Sir George Gilbert Scott
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| architecturalStyle | Gothic Revival ⓘ |
| city | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| denomination | Anglican ⓘ |
| designedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalElement |
chancel
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nave ⓘ spires ⓘ tower ⓘ transepts ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalFeatures |
flying buttresses
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pointed arches ⓘ ribbed vaults ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ tall spires ⓘ tracery windows ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalPlan | cruciform plan ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalType | cathedral ⓘ |
| heritage | Victorian architecture ⓘ |
| knownFor | Gothic Revival architecture ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition | Anglican liturgy ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Edinburgh
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surface form:
Edinburgh, Scotland
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| namedAfter | Saint Mary ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| periodOfConstruction | Victorian era ⓘ |
| styleInfluence | medieval Gothic architecture ⓘ |
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 Cathedral, Edinburgh (design) Description of subject: St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh is a prominent 19th-century Gothic Revival Anglican cathedral designed by the renowned Victorian architect Sir George Gilbert Scott.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.