St Barnabas Church, Dibley
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St Barnabas Church, Dibley is the fictional parish church in the English village of Dibley featured in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Barnabas Church, Dibley canonical | 1 |
| The Vicar of Dibley’s church | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8154735 — 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 Barnabas Church, Dibley Context triple: [Geraldine Granger, worksAt, St Barnabas Church, Dibley]
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A.
St Barnabas Church
St Barnabas Church is a Christian place of worship serving the local community in West Molesey, Surrey, England.
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B.
St Barnabas Church
St Barnabas Church is a notable historic church in the Dutch town of Haastrecht, recognized as a prominent local landmark and place of worship.
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C.
St Barnabas Church
St Barnabas Church is a Christian place of worship serving the local community in the town of East Grinstead, West Sussex, England.
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D.
Polbeth Harwood Church
Polbeth Harwood Church is a Christian place of worship serving the local community in the village of Polbeth, Scotland.
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E.
Croydon Parish Church
Croydon Parish Church is a historic Anglican church in Croydon, London, notable for its medieval origins and associations with several Archbishops of Canterbury.
- 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 Barnabas Church, Dibley Target entity description: St Barnabas Church, Dibley is the fictional parish church in the English village of Dibley featured in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
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A.
St Barnabas Church
St Barnabas Church is a Christian place of worship serving the local community in West Molesey, Surrey, England.
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B.
St Barnabas Church
St Barnabas Church is a notable historic church in the Dutch town of Haastrecht, recognized as a prominent local landmark and place of worship.
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C.
St Barnabas Church
St Barnabas Church is a Christian place of worship serving the local community in the town of East Grinstead, West Sussex, England.
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D.
Polbeth Harwood Church
Polbeth Harwood Church is a Christian place of worship serving the local community in the village of Polbeth, Scotland.
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E.
Croydon Parish Church
Croydon Parish Church is a historic Anglican church in Croydon, London, notable for its medieval origins and associations with several Archbishops of Canterbury.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional building
ⓘ
fictional church ⓘ television location ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Vicar of Dibley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | television comedy ⓘ |
| associatedWithCreatorOfWork |
Paul Mayhew-Archer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFictionalCharacter | Geraldine Granger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFictionalCommunity | Dibley parish council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFictionalRole | vicar ⓘ |
| associatedWithProductionCompanyOfWork | Tiger Aspect Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRealFilmingLocation | St Mary the Virgin Church, Turville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depictedAsLocatedIn | Oxfordshire (fictionalized rural England) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalDiocese | fictional Church of England diocese ⓘ |
| fictionalLocationIn | Dibley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalParish | Dibley parish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalReligiousAffiliation | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | The Vicar of Dibley series 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastNetworkOfWork | BBC One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | British sitcom ⓘ |
| hasFictionalClergyMember |
Geraldine Granger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hugo Horton (churchwarden role in some episodes) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalDedication | Saint Barnabas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalDenomination | Church of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalStatus | active parish church ⓘ |
| inUniverseLocationType | village centre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central location ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the main setting of The Vicar of Dibley
ⓘ
depiction of a female vicar in the Church of England ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | The Vicar of Dibley universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedByRealWorldLocation | St Mary the Virgin Church, Turville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunctionInFiction | parish church ⓘ |
| settingType | rural parish church ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| usedAsMainSettingFor | The Vicar of Dibley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedForComicSituationsIn | The Vicar of Dibley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedForScenesOf |
church services
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funerals ⓘ parish meetings ⓘ vicar’s sermons ⓘ weddings ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Barnabas Church, Dibley Description of subject: St Barnabas Church, Dibley is the fictional parish church in the English village of Dibley featured in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Vicar of Dibley’s church