St Swithun’s Church, Retford
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St Swithun’s Church, Retford is a historic Anglican parish church in the market town of Retford, Nottinghamshire, noted for its medieval origins and prominent town-centre location.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Swithun’s Church, Retford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6631405 — 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 Swithun’s Church, Retford Context triple: [Retford, hasReligiousBuilding, St Swithun’s Church, Retford]
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A.
Rotherham Minster
Rotherham Minster is a historic parish church in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, renowned for its impressive Gothic architecture and prominent town-centre presence.
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B.
Southwell Minster
Southwell Minster is a historic Anglican cathedral in the town of Southwell, renowned for its Norman architecture and distinctive twin towers.
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C.
Bury Parish Church
Bury Parish Church is a historic Anglican church in Bury, Greater Manchester, noted for its prominent tower and role as a focal point of the town’s religious and civic life.
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D.
Wakefield Cathedral
Wakefield Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, notable for having the tallest church spire in Yorkshire and serving as the seat of the Bishop of Leeds.
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E.
Sheffield Cathedral
Sheffield Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in the heart of Sheffield, England, known for its medieval origins and role as the city’s principal place of worship.
- 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 Swithun’s Church, Retford Target entity description: St Swithun’s Church, Retford is a historic Anglican parish church in the market town of Retford, Nottinghamshire, noted for its medieval origins and prominent town-centre location.
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A.
Rotherham Minster
Rotherham Minster is a historic parish church in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, renowned for its impressive Gothic architecture and prominent town-centre presence.
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B.
Southwell Minster
Southwell Minster is a historic Anglican cathedral in the town of Southwell, renowned for its Norman architecture and distinctive twin towers.
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C.
Bury Parish Church
Bury Parish Church is a historic Anglican church in Bury, Greater Manchester, noted for its prominent tower and role as a focal point of the town’s religious and civic life.
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D.
Wakefield Cathedral
Wakefield Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, notable for having the tallest church spire in Yorkshire and serving as the seat of the Bishop of Leeds.
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E.
Sheffield Cathedral
Sheffield Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in the heart of Sheffield, England, known for its medieval origins and role as the city’s principal place of worship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican parish church
ⓘ
Grade II* listed building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | medieval church architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Retford
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Churches in Nottinghamshire ⓘ Grade II* listed churches in Nottinghamshire ⓘ |
| churchmanship | Anglican ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Swithun ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham ⓘ |
| function | parish church ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
chancel
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nave ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ tower ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade II* listed ⓘ |
| heritageRegister |
National Heritage List for England
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linked to:
National Heritage List for England entry
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| isInMarketTown | Retford ⓘ |
| knownFor |
medieval origins
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prominent town-centre location ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Nottinghamshire ⓘ Retford ⓘ |
| parish | Retford ⓘ |
| province | Province of York ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
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community 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 Swithun’s Church, Retford Description of subject: St Swithun’s Church, Retford is a historic Anglican parish church in the market town of Retford, Nottinghamshire, noted for its medieval origins and prominent town-centre location.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.