St. Mary’s Church, Rostock
E304697
St. Mary’s Church in Rostock is a prominent Brick Gothic parish church and former city church, renowned for its medieval architecture and historic astronomical clock.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St. Mary’s Church (Marienkirche) in Rostock | 1 |
| St. Mary’s Church (Rostock) | 1 |
| St. Mary’s Church, Rostock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2873400 — 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, Rostock Context triple: [Rostock, hasLandmark, St. Mary’s Church, Rostock]
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St. Mary’s Church, Torgau
St. Mary’s Church in Torgau is a historic Lutheran church in Saxony, Germany, notable as the burial site of Katharina von Bora, the wife of Martin Luther.
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St. Mary’s Church, Berlin
St. Mary’s Church in Berlin is one of the city’s oldest surviving parish churches, a historic Protestant landmark located near Alexanderplatz and notable for its medieval origins and architectural significance.
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St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk
St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk is a massive Brick Gothic Roman Catholic basilica, often cited as one of the largest brick churches in the world and a dominant landmark of Gdańsk’s historic skyline.
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St. Mary’s Church, Hanau
St. Mary’s Church in Hanau is a historic German church notable as the burial site of Princess Mary of Great Britain.
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Marienkirche, Lübeck
Marienkirche, Lübeck is a major Brick Gothic church in Lübeck, Germany, renowned for its historical significance, impressive architecture, and association with the composer and organist Dieterich Buxtehude.
- 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, Rostock Target entity description: St. Mary’s Church in Rostock is a prominent Brick Gothic parish church and former city church, renowned for its medieval architecture and historic astronomical clock.
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A.
St. Mary’s Church, Torgau
St. Mary’s Church in Torgau is a historic Lutheran church in Saxony, Germany, notable as the burial site of Katharina von Bora, the wife of Martin Luther.
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B.
St. Mary’s Church, Berlin
St. Mary’s Church in Berlin is one of the city’s oldest surviving parish churches, a historic Protestant landmark located near Alexanderplatz and notable for its medieval origins and architectural significance.
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C.
St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk
St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk is a massive Brick Gothic Roman Catholic basilica, often cited as one of the largest brick churches in the world and a dominant landmark of Gdańsk’s historic skyline.
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St. Mary’s Church, Hanau
St. Mary’s Church in Hanau is a historic German church notable as the burial site of Princess Mary of Great Britain.
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Marienkirche, Lübeck
Marienkirche, Lübeck is a major Brick Gothic church in Lübeck, Germany, renowned for its historical significance, impressive architecture, and association with the composer and organist Dieterich Buxtehude.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brick Gothic church
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church building ⓘ landmark ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| affiliation | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Brick Gothic ⓘ |
| category |
Brick Gothic churches in Germany
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Churches in Rostock ⓘ Lutheran churches in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ⓘ Medieval churches of Germany ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| denomination | Lutheran ⓘ |
| era | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Gothic vaults
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astronomical clock ⓘ baroque furnishings ⓘ choir ⓘ medieval furnishings ⓘ nave ⓘ organ ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ tower ⓘ transept ⓘ |
| hasPart | St. Mary’s astronomical clock ⓘ |
| heritage | medieval Brick Gothic architecture ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected historic monument ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baltic Sea region
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Hanseatic City of Rostock ⓘ
linked to:
Rostock
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ⓘ Rostock ⓘ historic city centre of Rostock ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Baltic Sea ⓘ |
| material | brick ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Brick Gothic façade
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historic astronomical clock ⓘ medieval architecture ⓘ |
| previousDenomination | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| region | Northern Germany ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| significance |
former main city church of Rostock
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important example of North German Brick Gothic ⓘ major tourist attraction in Rostock ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
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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. Mary’s Church, Rostock Description of subject: St. Mary’s Church in Rostock is a prominent Brick Gothic parish church and former city church, renowned for its medieval architecture and historic astronomical clock.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: St. Mary’s Church, Rostock
linked to: St. Mary’s Church, Rostock