St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh
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St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh is a historic Scottish church noted for its ancient parish roots and as the burial place of mathematician and logarithm inventor John Napier.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh canonical | 1 |
| St Cuthbert’s Churchyard, Edinburgh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4898401 — 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 Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh Context triple: [John Napier, burialPlace, St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh]
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A.
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
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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B.
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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C.
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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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.
Brechin Cathedral
Brechin Cathedral is a historic medieval church in Brechin, Scotland, renowned for its distinctive round tower and significance as a former seat of a Scottish diocese.
- 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 Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh Target entity description: St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh is a historic Scottish church noted for its ancient parish roots and as the burial place of mathematician and logarithm inventor John Napier.
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A.
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
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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B.
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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C.
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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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.
Brechin Cathedral
Brechin Cathedral is a historic medieval church in Brechin, Scotland, renowned for its distinctive round tower and significance as a former seat of a Scottish diocese.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
church
ⓘ
listed building ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| affiliation | Church of Scotland parish of St Cuthbert's NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architect | Hippolyte Blanc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic Revival
ⓘ
Neo-Romanesque ⓘ
surface form:
Romanesque Revival
|
| burialPlaceOf |
Agnes Napier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Napier NERFINISHED ⓘ members of the Napier family ⓘ |
| category |
Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh
ⓘ
Church of Scotland churches ⓘ Churches in Edinburgh ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| currentBuildingCompletedIn | 1894 ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Cuthbert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| earliestDocumentaryReference | 12th century ⓘ |
| governedBy | Presbytery of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | St Cuthbert's Kirkyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
large churchyard
ⓘ
prominent spire ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ war memorials ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | Category A listed building ⓘ |
| hasParishStatus | urban parish ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.st-cuthberts.net/ ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationBy | Historic Environment Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedAt | west end of Princes Street Gardens ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
Edinburgh city centre NERFINISHED ⓘ Lothian NERFINISHED ⓘ Parish of St Cuthbert NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Edinburgh Castle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Princes Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ancient parish roots
ⓘ
association with John Napier ⓘ historic kirkyard ⓘ |
| overlooks | Princes Street Gardens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parishIsOneOfOldestIn | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parishOriginatesFromCentury | 7th century ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| usedFor |
Christian worship
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community events ⓘ concerts ⓘ religious 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: St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh Description of subject: St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh is a historic Scottish church noted for its ancient parish roots and as the burial place of mathematician and logarithm inventor John Napier.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
this entity surface form:
St Cuthbert’s Churchyard, Edinburgh