Thjodhild’s church
E319478
Thjodhild’s church was a small early Christian church in Greenland, traditionally regarded as the first church in North America, built by Erik the Red’s wife Thjodhild at the Norse settlement of Brattahlid.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thjodhild’s church canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3006339 — 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: Thjodhild’s church Context triple: [Brattahlid, hasPart, Thjodhild’s church]
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A.
Högalid Church
Högalid Church is a prominent twin-towered Lutheran church in Stockholm, Sweden, renowned as a major work of Swedish architect Ivar Tengbom and a landmark of early 20th-century Nordic architecture.
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B.
Valbo Church
Valbo Church is a historic parish church in Valbo, Sweden, serving as a central place of worship and community gathering for the local Lutheran congregation.
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C.
Bremsnes Church
Bremsnes Church is a historic parish church located on the island of Averøya in Norway, serving as a local center of Lutheran worship and community life.
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D.
Åna-Sira Church
Åna-Sira Church is a parish church in southwestern Norway serving the small coastal village of Åna-Sira and the surrounding Sokndal area.
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E.
Østerlars Church
Østerlars Church is a famous 12th-century round church on the Danish island of Bornholm, noted for its distinctive circular architecture and medieval frescoes.
- 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: Thjodhild’s church Target entity description: Thjodhild’s church was a small early Christian church in Greenland, traditionally regarded as the first church in North America, built by Erik the Red’s wife Thjodhild at the Norse settlement of Brattahlid.
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A.
Högalid Church
Högalid Church is a prominent twin-towered Lutheran church in Stockholm, Sweden, renowned as a major work of Swedish architect Ivar Tengbom and a landmark of early 20th-century Nordic architecture.
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B.
Valbo Church
Valbo Church is a historic parish church in Valbo, Sweden, serving as a central place of worship and community gathering for the local Lutheran congregation.
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C.
Bremsnes Church
Bremsnes Church is a historic parish church located on the island of Averøya in Norway, serving as a local center of Lutheran worship and community life.
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D.
Åna-Sira Church
Åna-Sira Church is a parish church in southwestern Norway serving the small coastal village of Åna-Sira and the surrounding Sokndal area.
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E.
Østerlars Church
Østerlars Church is a famous 12th-century round church on the Danish island of Bornholm, noted for its distinctive circular architecture and medieval frescoes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
ⓘ
church ⓘ early Christian church ⓘ |
| architecturalType | small rectangular church ⓘ |
| associatedReligionPhase | conversion of Norse Greenlanders to Christianity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Erik the Red
ⓘ
Norse exploration of North America ⓘ |
| builderSpouseOf | Erik the Red ⓘ |
| builtBy | Thjodhild ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Greenland ⓘ |
| culture | Norse ⓘ |
| currentCondition | ruins ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Christian worship ⓘ |
| denomination |
Catholic Church worldwide
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
|
| discoveredBy | archaeologists ⓘ |
| estimatedConstructionCentury | 10th century ⓘ |
| excavationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| feature |
altar area
ⓘ
chancel ⓘ nave ⓘ |
| hasReconstruction | reconstructed turf church at Qassiarsuk ⓘ |
| hasTypeSite | reconstructed model church at Brattahlid ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | important Norse archaeological site in Greenland ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Norse Eastern Settlement in Greenland
ⓘ
surface form:
Norse Eastern Settlement
|
| locatedIn |
Brattahlid
ⓘ
Greenland ⓘ Norse Greenland ⓘ |
| material |
stone
ⓘ
turf ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thjodhild ⓘ |
| nearModernSettlement | Qassiarsuk ⓘ |
| partOf |
Eastern Settlement, Greenland
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Settlement (Greenland)
Brattahlíð farm of Erik the Red ⓘ
surface form:
Norse settlement of Brattahlid
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| significance |
earliest known Christian church in the Western Hemisphere
ⓘ
evidence of early Christianization of Norse Greenland ⓘ |
| spouseOfBuilder | Erik the Red ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Norse colonization of Greenland
ⓘ
Viking Age ⓘ |
| traditionallyRegardedAs | first church in North America ⓘ |
| usedFor | Christian worship by Norse settlers ⓘ |
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: Thjodhild’s church Description of subject: Thjodhild’s church was a small early Christian church in Greenland, traditionally regarded as the first church in North America, built by Erik the Red’s wife Thjodhild at the Norse settlement of Brattahlid.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brattahlíð