Greyfriars Church, Leicester
E144292
Greyfriars Church in Leicester is the former friary site where the remains of King Richard III of England were buried and rediscovered in the 21st century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greyfriars, Leicester | 3 |
| Greyfriars Church, Leicester canonical | 1 |
| Greyfriars friary, Leicester | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1262018 — 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: Greyfriars Church, Leicester Context triple: [Richard III of England, placeOfBurial, Greyfriars Church, Leicester]
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A.
St Michael and All Angels' Church
St Michael and All Angels' Church is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of East Coker, Somerset, England, noted for its traditional architecture and local heritage significance.
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B.
St Luke Old Street
St Luke Old Street is an early 18th-century Anglican church in London, renowned for its distinctive architecture designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
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C.
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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D.
Temple Church
Temple Church is a historic 12th-century church in London, originally built by the Knights Templar and renowned for its distinctive round nave and medieval effigies.
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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: Greyfriars Church, Leicester Target entity description: Greyfriars Church in Leicester is the former friary site where the remains of King Richard III of England were buried and rediscovered in the 21st century.
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A.
St Michael and All Angels' Church
St Michael and All Angels' Church is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of East Coker, Somerset, England, noted for its traditional architecture and local heritage significance.
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B.
St Luke Old Street
St Luke Old Street is an early 18th-century Anglican church in London, renowned for its distinctive architecture designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
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C.
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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D.
Temple Church
Temple Church is a historic 12th-century church in London, originally built by the Knights Templar and renowned for its distinctive round nave and medieval effigies.
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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 (48)
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: Greyfriars Church, Leicester Description of subject: Greyfriars Church in Leicester is the former friary site where the remains of King Richard III of England were buried and rediscovered in the 21st century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Greyfriars Church, Leicester
subject linked to:
Richard Plantagenet
linked to: Greyfriars Church, Leicester
linked to: Greyfriars Church, Leicester
subject linked to:
tomb of Richard III
linked to: Greyfriars Church, Leicester