Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding
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The Church of St John the Evangelist in Little Gidding is a historic Anglican church best known for its association with the 17th-century religious community led by Nicholas Ferrar and its later inspiration for T. S. Eliot’s poem “Little Gidding.”
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding canonical | 1 |
| St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5103918 — 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: Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding Context triple: [Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire, England, hasPlaceOfWorship, Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding]
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A.
St Michael and All Angels' Church, East Coker
St Michael and All Angels' Church, East Coker is a historic parish church in Somerset, England, best known as the burial place of poet T. S. Eliot and for its connection to his "Four Quartets."
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B.
Bruder Klaus Field Chapel
Bruder Klaus Field Chapel is a minimalist concrete and timber chapel in Mechernich, Germany, renowned for its contemplative atmosphere and distinctive sculpted interior.
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C.
Peterhouse Chapel
Peterhouse Chapel is the historic college chapel of Peterhouse, the oldest college of the University of Cambridge, noted for its elegant architecture and rich academic and religious heritage.
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D.
St Mary Magdalene Church, Woodstock
St Mary Magdalene Church, Woodstock is a historic Anglican parish church in the Oxfordshire town of Woodstock, noted for its medieval origins and prominent position near Blenheim Palace.
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E.
Clerecía Church
Clerecía Church is a grand Baroque Jesuit church and college complex in Salamanca, Spain, noted for its imposing façade and prominent twin towers.
- 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: Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding Target entity description: The Church of St John the Evangelist in Little Gidding is a historic Anglican church best known for its association with the 17th-century religious community led by Nicholas Ferrar and its later inspiration for T. S. Eliot’s poem “Little Gidding.”
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A.
St Michael and All Angels' Church, East Coker
St Michael and All Angels' Church, East Coker is a historic parish church in Somerset, England, best known as the burial place of poet T. S. Eliot and for its connection to his "Four Quartets."
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B.
Bruder Klaus Field Chapel
Bruder Klaus Field Chapel is a minimalist concrete and timber chapel in Mechernich, Germany, renowned for its contemplative atmosphere and distinctive sculpted interior.
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C.
Peterhouse Chapel
Peterhouse Chapel is the historic college chapel of Peterhouse, the oldest college of the University of Cambridge, noted for its elegant architecture and rich academic and religious heritage.
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D.
St Mary Magdalene Church, Woodstock
St Mary Magdalene Church, Woodstock is a historic Anglican parish church in the Oxfordshire town of Woodstock, noted for its medieval origins and prominent position near Blenheim Palace.
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E.
Clerecía Church
Clerecía Church is a grand Baroque Jesuit church and college complex in Salamanca, Spain, noted for its imposing façade and prominent twin towers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican church
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parish church ⓘ |
| affiliation | Anglican Communion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | High Church Anglican devotion ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ferrar family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Little Gidding religious community NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Ferrar NERFINISHED ⓘ T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfMajorAssociation | 17th century ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | symbol of Anglican spiritual renewal ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | John the Evangelist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| ecclesiasticalProvince | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| eraOfNotableCommunity | 17th century ⓘ |
| foundedAs | chapel for the Ferrar community ⓘ |
| hasGraveOrMemorialOf | members of the Ferrar family ⓘ |
| hasNameInEnglish | Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParish | Little Gidding parish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic church ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | Little Gidding (poem) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the Ferrar household
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connection with 17th-century Anglican piety ⓘ influence on T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | setting and symbol in modernist poetry ⓘ |
| liturgicalUse | Book of Common Prayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridgeshire, England
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridgeshire
England ⓘ Little Gidding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John the Evangelist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Diocese of Ely NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pilgrimageSiteFor |
Anglicans
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
readers of T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| region | East of England ⓘ |
| religiousCommunityLeader | Nicholas Ferrar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousCommunityType | Anglican devotional community ⓘ |
| tradition | Anglican ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Anglican services
ⓘ
Christian worship ⓘ |
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: Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding Description of subject: The Church of St John the Evangelist in Little Gidding is a historic Anglican church best known for its association with the 17th-century religious community led by Nicholas Ferrar and its later inspiration for T. S. Eliot’s poem “Little Gidding.”
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire, England
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hasPlaceOfWorship
→
Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding
ⓘ
Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire, England
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parishChurch
→
Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding
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this entity surface form:
St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding