St James Church, Sydney
E379163
St James Church, Sydney is the oldest surviving church building in the city, an Anglican landmark renowned for its Georgian architecture and prominent role in Sydney’s colonial and civic history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St James Church, Sydney canonical | 1 |
| St James’ Church, Sydney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3663249 — 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 James Church, Sydney Context triple: [Macquarie Street civic precinct, contains, St James Church, Sydney]
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A.
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney is a prominent Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church and one of the city's most recognizable religious and architectural landmarks.
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B.
St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney
St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney is a historic Gothic Revival Anglican cathedral in the heart of Sydney, serving as the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney and a prominent landmark in the city.
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C.
St Paul’s Anglican Church
St Paul’s Anglican Church is a historically significant Anglican church in Murrurundi, New South Wales, recognized for its heritage architecture and cultural importance to the local community.
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D.
St Anne’s Cathedral
St Anne’s Cathedral is a prominent Anglican cathedral in Belfast, Northern Ireland, noted for its Romanesque Revival architecture and role as a major religious and cultural landmark in the city.
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E.
St Saviour’s Cathedral
St Saviour’s Cathedral is a prominent Anglican cathedral in Goulburn, New South Wales, known for its Gothic Revival architecture and historical significance as one of Australia’s earliest inland cathedrals.
- 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 James Church, Sydney Target entity description: St James Church, Sydney is the oldest surviving church building in the city, an Anglican landmark renowned for its Georgian architecture and prominent role in Sydney’s colonial and civic history.
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A.
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney is a prominent Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church and one of the city's most recognizable religious and architectural landmarks.
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B.
St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney
St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney is a historic Gothic Revival Anglican cathedral in the heart of Sydney, serving as the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney and a prominent landmark in the city.
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C.
St Paul’s Anglican Church
St Paul’s Anglican Church is a historically significant Anglican church in Murrurundi, New South Wales, recognized for its heritage architecture and cultural importance to the local community.
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D.
St Anne’s Cathedral
St Anne’s Cathedral is a prominent Anglican cathedral in Belfast, Northern Ireland, noted for its Romanesque Revival architecture and role as a major religious and cultural landmark in the city.
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E.
St Saviour’s Cathedral
St Saviour’s Cathedral is a prominent Anglican cathedral in Goulburn, New South Wales, known for its Gothic Revival architecture and historical significance as one of Australia’s earliest inland cathedrals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican church
ⓘ
Georgian-style church ⓘ church building ⓘ heritage-listed building ⓘ |
| architect | Francis Greenway ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Georgian architecture ⓘ |
| builder | convict labour ⓘ |
| builtDuringGovernorshipOf | Lachlan Macquarie ⓘ |
| churchmanship | Anglo-Catholic ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1819 ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| denomination |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
surface form:
Anglican
|
| diocese | Anglican Diocese of Sydney ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Church of England parish ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
civic ceremonies
ⓘ
public concerts ⓘ regular choral services ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Anglican churches in New South Wales
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Churches in Sydney ⓘ Georgian architecture in Australia ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Georgian interior
ⓘ
classical portico ⓘ galleries ⓘ pipe organ ⓘ prominent tower ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
civic landmark
ⓘ
parish church ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
civic history of Sydney
ⓘ
colonial history of Sydney ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.sjks.org.au/ ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationDate | 2 April 1999 ⓘ |
| heritageNumber | 35 ⓘ |
| heritageRegister |
State Heritage Register listing (New South Wales)
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surface form:
New South Wales State Heritage Register
|
| heritageStatus |
State Heritage Register listing (New South Wales)
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surface form:
New South Wales State Heritage Register
|
| inaugurationDate | 1824 ⓘ |
| isLandmarkOf | Sydney central business district ⓘ |
| isOldestSurvivingChurchBuildingIn | Sydney ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Macquarie Street, Sydney
ⓘ
New South Wales ⓘ Sydney ⓘ |
| material | sandstone ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Apostle James the Greater
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint James the Great
|
| parish | Parish of St James, King Street ⓘ |
| proximityTo |
Hyde Park, Sydney
ⓘ
Supreme Court of New South Wales ⓘ Sydney Hospital ⓘ |
| usesLiturgy | Anglican liturgy ⓘ |
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 James Church, Sydney Description of subject: St James Church, Sydney is the oldest surviving church building in the city, an Anglican landmark renowned for its Georgian architecture and prominent role in Sydney’s colonial and civic history.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St James’ Church, Sydney