Canongate Kirk
E163526
Canongate Kirk is a historic Church of Scotland parish church on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, known for its 17th-century architecture and close ties to the Scottish monarchy and local community.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Canongate Kirk canonical | 12 |
| Canongate Kirk session house (historically and/or presently) | 1 |
| Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1435183 — 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: Canongate Kirk Context triple: [Canongate Kirkyard, adjacentTo, Canongate Kirk]
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A.
Ian Buchanan
Ian Buchanan is a Scottish television and film actor known for roles in series like "Twin Peaks" and "General Hospital" as well as various feature films.
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B.
Robnett
Robnett is a given middle name that appears in the full name of individuals such as the American politician and jurist James Lick Robnett.
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C.
Buckley
Buckley is a surname most prominently associated with William F. Buckley Jr., the influential American conservative author and founder of National Review.
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D.
John Stewart
John Stewart, later known as Robert III of Scotland, was King of Scots from 1390 to 1406 and the first monarch of the Stewart dynasty to rule under the name "Robert."
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E.
Maxwell Burns
Maxwell Burns was one of the children of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns.
- 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: Canongate Kirk Target entity description: Canongate Kirk is a historic Church of Scotland parish church on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, known for its 17th-century architecture and close ties to the Scottish monarchy and local community.
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A.
Ian Buchanan
Ian Buchanan is a Scottish television and film actor known for roles in series like "Twin Peaks" and "General Hospital" as well as various feature films.
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B.
Robnett
Robnett is a given middle name that appears in the full name of individuals such as the American politician and jurist James Lick Robnett.
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C.
Buckley
Buckley is a surname most prominently associated with William F. Buckley Jr., the influential American conservative author and founder of National Review.
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D.
John Stewart
John Stewart, later known as Robert III of Scotland, was King of Scots from 1390 to 1406 and the first monarch of the Stewart dynasty to rule under the name "Robert."
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E.
Maxwell Burns
Maxwell Burns was one of the children of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Canongate Kirk Description of subject: Canongate Kirk is a historic Church of Scotland parish church on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, known for its 17th-century architecture and close ties to the Scottish monarchy and local community.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh
linked to: Canongate Kirk
Kirk Session of Canongate
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meetsAt
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Canongate Kirk session house (historically and/or presently)
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linked to: Canongate Kirk