Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
E452348
Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh is a historic 17th-century church renowned as a key site of Scottish religious and political history, including its role in the signing of the National Covenant.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greyfriars Kirk | 1 |
| Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4556918 — 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: Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh Context triple: [National Covenant, locationSigned, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh]
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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.
Queen’s Cross Church, Glasgow
Queen’s Cross Church in Glasgow is a distinctive early 20th-century ecclesiastical building designed in the Art Nouveau-influenced style of Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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C.
Trinity College Kirk, Edinburgh
Trinity College Kirk, Edinburgh was a medieval collegiate church in Edinburgh, Scotland, notable as a royal foundation and the burial place of Queen Mary of Guelders.
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D.
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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E.
St Bridget’s Kirk
St Bridget’s Kirk is a medieval ruined church on the shore of the Firth of Forth in Fife, Scotland, noted for its well-preserved architecture and historic graveyard.
- 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: Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh Target entity description: Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh is a historic 17th-century church renowned as a key site of Scottish religious and political history, including its role in the signing of the National Covenant.
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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.
Queen’s Cross Church, Glasgow
Queen’s Cross Church in Glasgow is a distinctive early 20th-century ecclesiastical building designed in the Art Nouveau-influenced style of Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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C.
Trinity College Kirk, Edinburgh
Trinity College Kirk, Edinburgh was a medieval collegiate church in Edinburgh, Scotland, notable as a royal foundation and the burial place of Queen Mary of Guelders.
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D.
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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E.
St Bridget’s Kirk
St Bridget’s Kirk is a medieval ruined church on the shore of the Firth of Forth in Fife, Scotland, noted for its well-preserved architecture and historic graveyard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Church of Scotland church
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ parish church ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Greyfriars Kirkyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Greyfriars Bobby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Covenant of 1638 NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish Covenanters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cemeteryName | Greyfriars Kirkyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfConstruction | 17th century ⓘ |
| cityCentreDistance | near Edinburgh city centre ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1602 ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 55.947°N 3.191°W ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eventLocation |
Covenanters’ assemblies
ⓘ
signing of the National Covenant (1638) ⓘ |
| governingBody | Church of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
Gothic
ⓘ
Renaissance ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bell tower
ⓘ
central nave ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ stone vaulted interior ⓘ |
| hasOrgan | pipe organ ⓘ |
| hasPart | Greyfriars Kirkyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://greyfriarskirk.com ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Category A listed building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inaugurationDate | 1620 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Old Town of Edinburgh World Heritage Site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Covenanter history
ⓘ
role in Scottish Reformation history ⓘ signing of the National Covenant ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
Old Town, Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| municipality | City of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Franciscan friars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
George IV Bridge
NERFINISHED
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The National Museum of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ The University of Edinburgh Old College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parish | Greyfriars Parish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Lothian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
concerts
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cultural events ⓘ worship services ⓘ |
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: Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh Description of subject: Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh is a historic 17th-century church renowned as a key site of Scottish religious and political history, including its role in the signing of the National Covenant.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Greyfriars Kirk