St Mary’s Church, Ashwell
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St Mary’s Church, Ashwell is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Ashwell, Hertfordshire, noted for its impressive medieval architecture and significant carved graffiti, including records of the Black Death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Mary’s Church, Ashwell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8899212 — 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, Ashwell Context triple: [Ashwell, parishChurch, St Mary’s Church, Ashwell]
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A.
St Giles Church, Ashtead
St Giles Church, Ashtead is a historic parish church in the village of Ashtead, Surrey, noted for its medieval origins and traditional Anglican worship.
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B.
St Mary’s Church, Isleworth
St Mary’s Church, Isleworth is a historic Anglican parish church on the River Thames in west London, noted for its distinctive riverside setting and long-standing role in the local community.
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C.
St Mary with St Alban Church
St Mary with St Alban Church is a historic Anglican parish church in Teddington, London, noted for its traditional architecture and role as a local community and worship center.
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D.
St Mary’s Church, Walthamstow
St Mary’s Church, Walthamstow is a historic Anglican parish church serving as one of the principal places of Christian worship in the Walthamstow area of London.
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E.
All Saints’ Church, Haslingfield
All Saints’ Church, Haslingfield is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, noted for its medieval architecture and longstanding role in local religious life.
- 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, Ashwell Target entity description: St Mary’s Church, Ashwell is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Ashwell, Hertfordshire, noted for its impressive medieval architecture and significant carved graffiti, including records of the Black Death.
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A.
St Giles Church, Ashtead
St Giles Church, Ashtead is a historic parish church in the village of Ashtead, Surrey, noted for its medieval origins and traditional Anglican worship.
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B.
St Mary’s Church, Isleworth
St Mary’s Church, Isleworth is a historic Anglican parish church on the River Thames in west London, noted for its distinctive riverside setting and long-standing role in the local community.
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C.
St Mary with St Alban Church
St Mary with St Alban Church is a historic Anglican parish church in Teddington, London, noted for its traditional architecture and role as a local community and worship center.
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D.
St Mary’s Church, Walthamstow
St Mary’s Church, Walthamstow is a historic Anglican parish church serving as one of the principal places of Christian worship in the Walthamstow area of London.
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E.
All Saints’ Church, Haslingfield
All Saints’ Church, Haslingfield is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, noted for its medieval architecture and longstanding role in local religious life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican parish church
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Grade I listed building ⓘ medieval church ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic
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Perpendicular Gothic ⓘ |
| associatedEvent |
Black Death in England
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linked to:
Black Death
|
| category |
14th-century church buildings in England
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Churches in Hertfordshire ⓘ Grade I listed churches in Hertfordshire ⓘ |
| centuryOfMainConstruction | 14th century ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Mary ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of St Albans ⓘ |
| function | parish church ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
inscriptions recording plague
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medieval wall carvings ⓘ stone graffiti ⓘ |
| hasGraveyard | yes ⓘ |
| hasPart |
aisles
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chancel ⓘ clerestory ⓘ nave ⓘ porch ⓘ spire ⓘ west tower ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationBy | Historic England ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Grade I listed ⓘ |
| isInVillage | Ashwell ⓘ |
| knownFor |
carved graffiti
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inscriptions relating to the Black Death ⓘ large spire ⓘ medieval architecture ⓘ tall west tower ⓘ |
| liturgicalTradition | Anglican ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ashwell, Hertfordshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Ashwell
East of England ⓘ Hertfordshire ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| ownership | Church of England ⓘ |
| parish | Ashwell ⓘ |
| province | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| region |
North Hertfordshire
ⓘ
linked to:
North Hertfordshire district
|
| religiousAffiliation |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| roofMaterial | lead ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
ⓘ
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 Mary’s Church, Ashwell Description of subject: St Mary’s Church, Ashwell is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Ashwell, Hertfordshire, noted for its impressive medieval architecture and significant carved graffiti, including records of the Black Death.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.