Christ Church, Newgate Street, London
E88711
Anglican church
Church of England church
Wren church
church in the City of London
former church building
Christ Church, Newgate Street, London was a historic Anglican church in the City of London, notable for its Wren-designed rebuilding after the Great Fire and later destruction in the Blitz.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Christ Church Newgate Street | 1 |
| Christ Church, Newgate Street | 1 |
| Christ Church, Newgate Street, London canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T716048 — 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: Christ Church, Newgate Street, London Context triple: [Richard Baxter, burialPlace, Christ Church, Newgate Street, London]
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A.
Christ Church, Spitalfields
Christ Church, Spitalfields is a prominent early 18th-century Anglican church in London, renowned as one of the finest examples of English Baroque architecture.
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B.
St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London
St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London is a notable 17th-century Anglican church renowned for its elegant Baroque architecture and prominent location in central London.
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C.
St Mary-le-Bow, London
St Mary-le-Bow in London is a historic Church of England building in the City of London, famed for its Bow Bells and its post-Great Fire reconstruction by Sir Christopher Wren.
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D.
St Olave's Church, Hart Street, London
St Olave's Church, Hart Street, London is a historic medieval Anglican church in the City of London, noted for its surviving pre-Great Fire architecture and strong association with the diarist Samuel Pepys.
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E.
St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London
St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street in London is a historic Anglican church renowned for its distinctive tiered spire and its reconstruction by Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London.
- 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: Christ Church, Newgate Street, London Target entity description: Christ Church, Newgate Street, London was a historic Anglican church in the City of London, notable for its Wren-designed rebuilding after the Great Fire and later destruction in the Blitz.
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A.
Christ Church, Spitalfields
Christ Church, Spitalfields is a prominent early 18th-century Anglican church in London, renowned as one of the finest examples of English Baroque architecture.
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B.
St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London
St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London is a notable 17th-century Anglican church renowned for its elegant Baroque architecture and prominent location in central London.
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C.
St Mary-le-Bow, London
St Mary-le-Bow in London is a historic Church of England building in the City of London, famed for its Bow Bells and its post-Great Fire reconstruction by Sir Christopher Wren.
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D.
St Olave's Church, Hart Street, London
St Olave's Church, Hart Street, London is a historic medieval Anglican church in the City of London, noted for its surviving pre-Great Fire architecture and strong association with the diarist Samuel Pepys.
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E.
St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London
St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street in London is a historic Anglican church renowned for its distinctive tiered spire and its reconstruction by Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican church
ⓘ
Church of England church ⓘ Wren church ⓘ church in the City of London ⓘ former church building ⓘ |
| architect | Christopher Wren ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Franciscan Order
ⓘ
Grey Friars ⓘ
surface form:
Greyfriars
|
| builtOnSiteOf |
Franciscan friary church
ⓘ
Greyfriars, Newgate, London ⓘ
surface form:
Greyfriars, London
|
| cemeteryUse | burial ground for parishioners ⓘ |
| churchmanship | Church of England ⓘ |
| city |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| currentFunction | historic monument ⓘ |
| currentStatus | partially surviving structure ⓘ |
| damagedBy | German bombing ⓘ |
| dateOfDestruction | 1940s ⓘ |
| denomination | Anglican ⓘ |
| designedBy | Christopher Wren ⓘ |
| destroyedDuring |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
|
| destroyedIn | The Blitz ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of London ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
classical interior
ⓘ
large round-arched windows ⓘ rectangular nave ⓘ steeple ⓘ west tower ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Grade I listed building ⓘ |
| heritageStatusAppliesTo | tower and west wall ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition | Anglican ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
City of London
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| locatedOn | Newgate Street ⓘ |
| material | Portland stone ⓘ |
| medievalPredecessor |
Greyfriars Church, London
ⓘ
surface form:
Greyfriars church
|
| notableFor |
Wren-designed rebuilding after the Great Fire of London
ⓘ
destruction in the Blitz ⓘ |
| parish | Christ Church Greyfriars ⓘ |
| postFireRebuildingProgram | Commission for Building Fifty New Churches ⓘ |
| postWarStatus | ruin ⓘ |
| postWarUse | public garden ⓘ |
| province | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| rebuiltAfter | Great Fire of London ⓘ |
| region | England ⓘ |
| style | English Baroque architecture ⓘ |
| towerUse | incorporated into modern office development ⓘ |
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: Christ Church, Newgate Street, London Description of subject: Christ Church, Newgate Street, London was a historic Anglican church in the City of London, notable for its Wren-designed rebuilding after the Great Fire and later destruction in the Blitz.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Christ Church, Newgate Street
this entity surface form:
Christ Church Newgate Street