Old Durham Church
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Old Durham Church is a historic colonial-era Anglican church located in Pomfret, Maryland, known as one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Durham Church canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8347156 — 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: Old Durham Church Context triple: [Pomfret, Maryland, hasChurch, Old Durham Church]
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A.
Old South Church
Old South Church is a historic United Church of Christ congregation in Boston renowned for its distinctive Venetian Gothic architecture and prominent role in American religious and civic life.
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B.
Old Ship Church
Old Ship Church is a historic 17th-century wooden meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts, renowned as the oldest church structure in continuous use in the United States.
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C.
Calvary Church
Calvary Church is a historic Christian church located in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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D.
Precista Church
Precista Church is a historic Romanian Orthodox church in Galați, Romania, noted for its traditional Moldavian architecture and religious significance.
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E.
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal parish church and notable landmark in the coastal community of Barnstable Village, Massachusetts.
- 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: Old Durham Church Target entity description: Old Durham Church is a historic colonial-era Anglican church located in Pomfret, Maryland, known as one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the state.
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A.
Old South Church
Old South Church is a historic United Church of Christ congregation in Boston renowned for its distinctive Venetian Gothic architecture and prominent role in American religious and civic life.
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B.
Old Ship Church
Old Ship Church is a historic 17th-century wooden meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts, renowned as the oldest church structure in continuous use in the United States.
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C.
Calvary Church
Calvary Church is a historic Christian church located in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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D.
Precista Church
Precista Church is a historic Romanian Orthodox church in Galați, Romania, noted for its traditional Moldavian architecture and religious significance.
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E.
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal parish church and notable landmark in the coastal community of Barnstable Village, Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial-era church building
ⓘ
historic church ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Colonial architecture ⓘ |
| buildingFunction | parish church ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| denomination |
Anglican
ⓘ
Episcopal Church (United States) ⓘ
linked to:
Episcopal Church
|
| hasBuildingType | church building ⓘ |
| hasCenturyOfOrigin | 18th century ⓘ |
| hasHeritageValue |
architectural significance
ⓘ
cultural significance ⓘ religious significance ⓘ |
| hasMaterial | brick ⓘ |
| hasNameInEnglish | Old Durham Church ⓘ |
| hasParish | Durham Parish ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic church building ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic site ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
colonial history of Maryland
ⓘ
history of the Anglican Church in Maryland ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Charles County, Maryland
ⓘ
Maryland ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Durham Parish area of southern Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Maryland
|
| location | Pomfret, Maryland ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the oldest surviving church buildings in Maryland
ⓘ
colonial-era architecture ⓘ |
| region | Southern Maryland ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| use | place of worship ⓘ |
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: Old Durham Church Description of subject: Old Durham Church is a historic colonial-era Anglican church located in Pomfret, Maryland, known as one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the state.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.