St. Mary’s Church, Handsworth
E120531
St. Mary’s Church, Handsworth is a historic Anglican church in Birmingham, England, noted as the burial place of prominent Industrial Revolution figures including Matthew Boulton.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Mary’s Church, Handsworth canonical | 3 |
| St Mary’s Church, Handsworth | 1 |
| St. Mary’s Church, Handsworth, Birmingham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1042587 — 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. Mary’s Church, Handsworth Context triple: [Matthew Boulton, burialPlace, St. Mary’s Church, Handsworth]
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A.
St Paul’s Church, Blackley
St Paul’s Church, Blackley is an Anglican parish church serving the local community in the Blackley area of Manchester, England.
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B.
St Andrew’s Church, Blackley
St Andrew’s Church, Blackley is an Anglican parish church serving the community of Blackley in Manchester, England.
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C.
St Mary’s Church, Harrow on the Hill
St Mary’s Church, Harrow on the Hill is a historic medieval parish church in Harrow, London, renowned for its hilltop setting and extensive views over the city.
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D.
St Mary’s Church, Battersea, London
St Mary’s Church in Battersea, London, is a historic Anglican riverside church best known as the burial place of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold.
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E.
Elie Parish Church
Elie Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal village of Elie in Fife, Scotland.
- 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. Mary’s Church, Handsworth Target entity description: St. Mary’s Church, Handsworth is a historic Anglican church in Birmingham, England, noted as the burial place of prominent Industrial Revolution figures including Matthew Boulton.
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A.
St Paul’s Church, Blackley
St Paul’s Church, Blackley is an Anglican parish church serving the local community in the Blackley area of Manchester, England.
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B.
St Andrew’s Church, Blackley
St Andrew’s Church, Blackley is an Anglican parish church serving the community of Blackley in Manchester, England.
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C.
St Mary’s Church, Harrow on the Hill
St Mary’s Church, Harrow on the Hill is a historic medieval parish church in Harrow, London, renowned for its hilltop setting and extensive views over the city.
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D.
St Mary’s Church, Battersea, London
St Mary’s Church in Battersea, London, is a historic Anglican riverside church best known as the burial place of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold.
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E.
Elie Parish Church
Elie Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal village of Elie in Fife, Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican church
ⓘ
listed building ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Handsworth Old Church ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Gothic ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Industrial Revolution in Birmingham
ⓘ
Lunar Society figures ⓘ |
| burialPlaceOf |
James Watt
ⓘ
Matthew Boulton ⓘ William Murdoch ⓘ |
| category |
Church of England church buildings in the West Midlands
ⓘ
Churches in Birmingham, West Midlands ⓘ Grade II* listed churches in the West Midlands ⓘ |
| city | Birmingham ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Mary ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Birmingham ⓘ |
| governedBy | Parochial Church Council of Handsworth ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | Handsworth churchyard ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
churchyard
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memorial plaques ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ tower ⓘ |
| hasMonumentTo |
James Watt
ⓘ
Matthew Boulton ⓘ William Murdoch ⓘ |
| hasStatus | active church ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Grade II* listed building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Birmingham
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England ⓘ Handsworth ⓘ West Midlands ⓘ |
| notedFor |
associations with the Industrial Revolution
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monuments to Matthew Boulton, James Watt and William Murdoch ⓘ |
| parish | Handsworth ⓘ |
| province | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| region |
West Midlands conurbation
ⓘ
linked to:
West Midlands
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| tradition | Anglican ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
ⓘ
baptisms ⓘ burials ⓘ funerals ⓘ 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. Mary’s Church, Handsworth Description of subject: St. Mary’s Church, Handsworth is a historic Anglican church in Birmingham, England, noted as the burial place of prominent Industrial Revolution figures including Matthew Boulton.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: St. Mary’s Church, Handsworth
linked to: St. Mary’s Church, Handsworth