St Canice's Cathedral
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St Canice's Cathedral is a historic medieval Church of Ireland cathedral in Kilkenny, Ireland, renowned for its well-preserved architecture and iconic round tower.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Canice's Cathedral | 3 |
| Saint Canice | 1 |
| St Canice's Cathedral canonical | 1 |
| St Canice’s Cathedral | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4764178 — 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 Canice's Cathedral Context triple: [County Kilkenny, hasHeritageSite, St Canice's Cathedral]
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A.
St Muredach’s Cathedral
St Muredach’s Cathedral is a prominent Roman Catholic cathedral in Ballina, County Mayo, known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the seat of the Diocese of Killala.
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B.
Clonfert Monastery
Clonfert Monastery was an early medieval Irish monastic center renowned for its scholarship and missionary activity, traditionally associated with the legacy of St. Brendan the Navigator.
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C.
Doire Cholm Cille
Doire Cholm Cille is the Irish name for the city of Derry in Northern Ireland, historically associated with a monastic settlement founded by St Columba.
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D.
Cathedral of Saints Patrick and Colman
The Cathedral of Saints Patrick and Colman is a prominent Roman Catholic cathedral in Newry, Northern Ireland, known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the seat of the Diocese of Dromore.
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E.
Colm Cille
Colm Cille, better known as Saint Columba, was a 6th-century Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in Scotland and founding the influential monastery on the island of Iona.
- 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 Canice's Cathedral Target entity description: St Canice's Cathedral is a historic medieval Church of Ireland cathedral in Kilkenny, Ireland, renowned for its well-preserved architecture and iconic round tower.
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A.
St Muredach’s Cathedral
St Muredach’s Cathedral is a prominent Roman Catholic cathedral in Ballina, County Mayo, known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the seat of the Diocese of Killala.
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B.
Clonfert Monastery
Clonfert Monastery was an early medieval Irish monastic center renowned for its scholarship and missionary activity, traditionally associated with the legacy of St. Brendan the Navigator.
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C.
Doire Cholm Cille
Doire Cholm Cille is the Irish name for the city of Derry in Northern Ireland, historically associated with a monastic settlement founded by St Columba.
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D.
Cathedral of Saints Patrick and Colman
The Cathedral of Saints Patrick and Colman is a prominent Roman Catholic cathedral in Newry, Northern Ireland, known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the seat of the Diocese of Dromore.
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E.
Colm Cille
Colm Cille, better known as Saint Columba, was a 6th-century Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in Scotland and founding the influential monastery on the island of Iona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican cathedral
ⓘ
cathedral ⓘ medieval church building ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic architecture
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Romanesque architecture ⓘ |
| builtOnSiteOf |
earlier monastic settlement
ⓘ
early Christian church ⓘ |
| cityLandmarkOf | Kilkenny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 13th century ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Canice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecclesiasticalStatus | cathedral church of the Diocese of Ossory ⓘ |
| floorPlanType | cruciform ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 13th century ⓘ |
| function |
place of worship
ⓘ
tourist site ⓘ |
| hasFeature | climbable round tower ⓘ |
| hasPart |
St Canice's round tower
NERFINISHED
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chancel ⓘ cloister ⓘ graveyard ⓘ nave ⓘ transept ⓘ |
| hasTowerType | round tower ⓘ |
| hasViewOf | Kilkenny city NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Monument of Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected structure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Kilkenny
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kilkenny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | limestone ⓘ |
| mediaCommonsCategory | St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Canice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historic tombs
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iconic round tower ⓘ medieval monuments ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ stone carvings ⓘ well-preserved medieval architecture ⓘ |
| province | Province of Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Leinster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Anglicanism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | historic graveyard ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Anglican worship services
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civic ceremonies ⓘ concerts ⓘ |
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 Canice's Cathedral Description of subject: St Canice's Cathedral is a historic medieval Church of Ireland cathedral in Kilkenny, Ireland, renowned for its well-preserved architecture and iconic round tower.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St. Canice's Cathedral
this entity surface form:
St. Canice's Cathedral
this entity surface form:
St Canice’s Cathedral
this entity surface form:
Saint Canice