St John’s Kirk of Perth
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St John’s Kirk of Perth is a historic medieval parish church in Perth, Scotland, noted for its prominent tower and long-standing role in the city’s religious and civic life.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St John’s Kirk | 1 |
| St John’s Kirk of Perth canonical | 1 |
| St John’s parish, Perth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T808209 — 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 John’s Kirk of Perth Context triple: [Perth, hasReligiousBuilding, St John’s Kirk of Perth]
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A.
St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth
St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth is a 19th-century Scottish Episcopal cathedral known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the mother church of the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
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B.
Forfar Parish Church
Forfar Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving as a prominent religious and architectural landmark in the town of Forfar, Angus, Scotland.
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C.
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral is a ruined medieval cathedral in St Andrews, Scotland, that was once the largest and most important church in the country and a major center of pilgrimage.
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D.
St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh is a historic Church of Scotland landmark on the Royal Mile, renowned as the High Kirk of Edinburgh and noted for its distinctive crown steeple and rich religious and civic heritage.
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E.
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral is a medieval Scottish church in Glasgow renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish cathedrals to have survived the Reformation largely intact.
- 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 John’s Kirk of Perth Target entity description: St John’s Kirk of Perth is a historic medieval parish church in Perth, Scotland, noted for its prominent tower and long-standing role in the city’s religious and civic life.
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A.
St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth
St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth is a 19th-century Scottish Episcopal cathedral known for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as the mother church of the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
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B.
Forfar Parish Church
Forfar Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving as a prominent religious and architectural landmark in the town of Forfar, Angus, Scotland.
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C.
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral is a ruined medieval cathedral in St Andrews, Scotland, that was once the largest and most important church in the country and a major center of pilgrimage.
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D.
St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh is a historic Church of Scotland landmark on the Royal Mile, renowned as the High Kirk of Edinburgh and noted for its distinctive crown steeple and rich religious and civic heritage.
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E.
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral is a medieval Scottish church in Glasgow renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish cathedrals to have survived the Reformation largely intact.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Church of Scotland church
ⓘ
listed building ⓘ medieval church ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Gothic ⓘ |
| category |
Category A listed buildings in Perth and Kinross
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churches in Perth and Kinross ⓘ medieval churches in Scotland ⓘ |
| city | Perth ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
John the Baptist
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint John the Baptist
|
| denomination | Presbyterian ⓘ |
| function | parish church ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Presbytery of the Church of Scotland
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surface form:
Church of Scotland Presbytery of Perth
|
| hasFeature |
historic bells
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large interior nave ⓘ medieval architectural details ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ |
| hasParish |
St John’s Kirk of Perth
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
St John’s parish, Perth
|
| hasPart |
aisles
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bell chamber ⓘ chancel ⓘ clerestory ⓘ nave ⓘ spire ⓘ tower ⓘ transepts ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Category A listed building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Perth
ⓘ
Perth and Kinross ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | River Tay ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Tay Street ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
John the Baptist
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint John the Baptist
|
| notableFor |
prominent tower
ⓘ
role in civic life of Perth ⓘ role in religious life of Perth ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| region | Perth and Kinross ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Church of Scotland ⓘ |
| significance |
important medieval church in Scotland
ⓘ
major landmark of Perth ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
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civic ceremonies ⓘ concerts ⓘ cultural events ⓘ |
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 John’s Kirk of Perth Description of subject: St John’s Kirk of Perth is a historic medieval parish church in Perth, Scotland, noted for its prominent tower and long-standing role in the city’s religious and civic life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St John’s parish, Perth
this entity surface form:
St John’s Kirk