St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia is a historic 18th-century parish church best known for its colonial architecture and surviving damage from the 1776 bombardment during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk | 1 |
| St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9071531 — 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. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia Context triple: [Richard M. Upjohn, notableWork, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia]
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Richmond
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Richmond is a historic and architecturally significant Episcopal parish that serves as the cathedral church for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal parish church in Edenton, North Carolina, noted for its colonial-era architecture and significance within the Edenton Historic District.
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C.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia is a historic 19th-century Episcopal parish church renowned for its Greek Revival architecture designed by prominent American architect William Strickland.
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D.
St Mary’s Episcopal Church
St Mary’s Episcopal Church is an Anglican parish church serving the local community in the village of Bridge of Weir, Scotland.
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E.
St. George’s Episcopal Church
St. George’s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal parish church in Manhattan, New York City, noted for its 19th-century architecture and prominent role in the Gramercy neighborhood.
- 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. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia Target entity description: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia is a historic 18th-century parish church best known for its colonial architecture and surviving damage from the 1776 bombardment during the American Revolutionary War.
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Richmond
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Richmond is a historic and architecturally significant Episcopal parish that serves as the cathedral church for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.
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B.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal parish church in Edenton, North Carolina, noted for its colonial-era architecture and significance within the Edenton Historic District.
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C.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia is a historic 19th-century Episcopal parish church renowned for its Greek Revival architecture designed by prominent American architect William Strickland.
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D.
St Mary’s Episcopal Church
St Mary’s Episcopal Church is an Anglican parish church serving the local community in the village of Bridge of Weir, Scotland.
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E.
St. George’s Episcopal Church
St. George’s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal parish church in Manhattan, New York City, noted for its 19th-century architecture and prominent role in the Gramercy neighborhood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century church building
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historic church ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| affiliation | Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Georgian architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
18th-century Episcopal church buildings
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Churches in Norfolk, Virginia ⓘ Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia ⓘ Colonial architecture in Virginia ⓘ |
| city | Norfolk, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countrySubdivision | Independent city of Norfolk ⓘ |
| denomination |
Episcopal Church
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surface form:
Episcopal Church (United States)
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| era | colonial era ⓘ |
| event | bombardment of Norfolk in 1776 ⓘ |
| function | Anglican worship services ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
memorial to Revolutionary War events in Norfolk
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symbol of Norfolk’s colonial past ⓘ |
| hasDamage | cannonball from 1776 bombardment embedded in wall ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
colonial-era churchyard
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historic cemetery ⓘ tower ⓘ |
| hasParish | St. Paul’s Episcopal parish, Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected historic property ⓘ |
| historicPeriod | pre-Revolutionary Virginia ⓘ |
| knownFor |
American Revolutionary War history
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colonial architecture ⓘ surviving damage from the 1776 bombardment of Norfolk ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Downtown Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Elizabeth River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | brick ⓘ |
| NRHPType | building ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| partOf | Downtown Norfolk Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Hampton Roads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Virginia ⓘ |
| survived | burning of Norfolk in 1776 ⓘ |
| tourism | heritage tourism site ⓘ |
| use |
historic site
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place of 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: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia Description of subject: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia is a historic 18th-century parish church best known for its colonial architecture and surviving damage from the 1776 bombardment during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia
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hasCathedral
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia
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this entity surface form:
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk