St Lawrence Church, Alton
E94753
St Lawrence Church, Alton is a historic Anglican parish church in the town of Alton, Hampshire, notable for its medieval origins and architectural heritage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Lawrence Church, Alton canonical | 2 |
| Parochial Church Council of Alton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T792753 — 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 Lawrence Church, Alton Context triple: [Alton, Hampshire, England, hasReligiousBuilding, St Lawrence Church, Alton]
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A.
St Edward’s Church
St Edward’s Church is a historic church on the Scottish island of Canna, noted for serving the island’s small community and visitors as a prominent local landmark.
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B.
St Botolph's Church
St Botolph's Church is a prominent medieval parish church in Boston, Lincolnshire, famed for its towering 14th-century lantern tower known as "The Stump."
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C.
Hamilton Old Parish Church
Hamilton Old Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, noted for its distinctive 18th-century architecture and prominent landmark status in the town.
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D.
Elie Parish Church
Elie Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal village of Elie in Fife, Scotland.
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E.
St Lawrence’s Church, Brentford
St Lawrence’s Church, Brentford is a historic Anglican church in Brentford, west London, noted for its longstanding role in the local community and its architectural heritage.
- 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 Lawrence Church, Alton Target entity description: St Lawrence Church, Alton is a historic Anglican parish church in the town of Alton, Hampshire, notable for its medieval origins and architectural heritage.
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A.
St Edward’s Church
St Edward’s Church is a historic church on the Scottish island of Canna, noted for serving the island’s small community and visitors as a prominent local landmark.
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B.
St Botolph's Church
St Botolph's Church is a prominent medieval parish church in Boston, Lincolnshire, famed for its towering 14th-century lantern tower known as "The Stump."
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C.
Hamilton Old Parish Church
Hamilton Old Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, noted for its distinctive 18th-century architecture and prominent landmark status in the town.
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D.
Elie Parish Church
Elie Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal village of Elie in Fife, Scotland.
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E.
St Lawrence’s Church, Brentford
St Lawrence’s Church, Brentford is a historic Anglican church in Brentford, west London, noted for its longstanding role in the local community and its architectural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican parish church
ⓘ
Grade I listed building ⓘ church building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Gothic ⓘ |
| category |
Anglican churches in England
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Churches in Hampshire ⓘ Grade I listed churches in Hampshire ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Lawrence ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Winchester ⓘ |
| followsChurchmanship | Anglican ⓘ |
| governingBody |
St Lawrence Church, Alton
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Parochial Church Council of Alton
|
| hasAltar | high altar ⓘ |
| hasBells | ring of bells ⓘ |
| hasBellTower | yes ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | yes ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
churchyard
ⓘ
stained glass windows ⓘ stone construction ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | Grade I listed ⓘ |
| hasOrgan | pipe organ ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chancel
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nave ⓘ tower ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationBy | Historic England ⓘ |
| isInUse | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
architectural heritage
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medieval origins ⓘ |
| liturgicalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alton, Hampshire, England
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surface form:
Alton, Hampshire
Borough of East Hampshire ⓘ Hampshire ⓘ South East England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| parish |
ALTON
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surface form:
Alton
|
| primaryFunction | parish church ⓘ |
| province | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| region | Hampshire ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| tradition | Anglo-Catholicism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
ⓘ
baptisms ⓘ funerals ⓘ parish services ⓘ weddings ⓘ |
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 Lawrence Church, Alton Description of subject: St Lawrence Church, Alton is a historic Anglican parish church in the town of Alton, Hampshire, notable for its medieval origins and architectural heritage.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Parochial Church Council of Alton
subject surface form:
Alton