St Mungo’s Cathedral
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St Mungo’s Cathedral is a medieval Church of Scotland cathedral in Glasgow, renowned as one of the finest surviving examples of Scottish Gothic architecture and a key site in the city’s religious and historical heritage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St Mungo’s Cathedral canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9380285 — 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 Mungo’s Cathedral Context triple: [High Kirk of Glasgow, alsoKnownAs, St Mungo’s Cathedral]
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A.
St Mary’s Cathedral
St Mary’s Cathedral is a historic medieval church and prominent religious landmark located in Limerick, Ireland.
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B.
St German's Cathedral
St German's Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral on the Isle of Man, notable as the medieval cathedral of the former Diocese of Sodor and Man and a prominent landmark in Peel.
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C.
St Michael’s Cathedral
St Michael’s Cathedral is the historic Anglican cathedral in Coventry, England, whose ruins from the 1940 World War II bombing stand alongside a modern rebuilt church as a symbol of reconciliation and peace.
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D.
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral is a ruined medieval cathedral in St Andrews, Scotland, that was once the largest and most important church in the country and a major center of pilgrimage.
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E.
St Andrew’s Cathedral
St Andrew’s Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Singapore renowned for its neo-Gothic architecture and status as the country’s oldest surviving church.
- 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 Mungo’s Cathedral Target entity description: St Mungo’s Cathedral is a medieval Church of Scotland cathedral in Glasgow, renowned as one of the finest surviving examples of Scottish Gothic architecture and a key site in the city’s religious and historical heritage.
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A.
St Mary’s Cathedral
St Mary’s Cathedral is a historic medieval church and prominent religious landmark located in Limerick, Ireland.
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B.
St German's Cathedral
St German's Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral on the Isle of Man, notable as the medieval cathedral of the former Diocese of Sodor and Man and a prominent landmark in Peel.
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C.
St Michael’s Cathedral
St Michael’s Cathedral is the historic Anglican cathedral in Coventry, England, whose ruins from the 1940 World War II bombing stand alongside a modern rebuilt church as a symbol of reconciliation and peace.
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D.
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral is a ruined medieval cathedral in St Andrews, Scotland, that was once the largest and most important church in the country and a major center of pilgrimage.
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E.
St Andrew’s Cathedral
St Andrew’s Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Singapore renowned for its neo-Gothic architecture and status as the country’s oldest surviving church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish Gothic building
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cathedral ⓘ church building ⓘ medieval cathedral ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic architecture
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Scottish Gothic architecture ⓘ |
| city | Glasgow ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod |
12th century
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13th century ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Mungo ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of Scotland ⓘ |
| diocese | Presbytery of Glasgow ⓘ |
| floorPlanType | cruciform ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 12th century ⓘ |
| function |
parish church
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tourist attraction ⓘ |
| hasCrypt | yes ⓘ |
| hasTower | yes ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
Category A listed building
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scheduled monument ⓘ |
| isSurvivingMedievalCathedralIn | mainland Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Glasgow
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Glasgow City Centre ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Glasgow Necropolis
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St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art ⓘ |
| management | Historic Environment Scotland ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Saint Kentigern
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Saint Mungo ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
clerestory
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large crypt ⓘ medieval stained glass remnants ⓘ stone vaulted ceilings ⓘ triforium ⓘ twin aisles ⓘ |
| ownership | Crown ⓘ |
| previousDenomination |
Roman Catholic Church
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linked to:
Roman Catholicism
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| region | Glasgow City ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| significance |
important site in Glasgow’s historical heritage
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important site in Glasgow’s religious heritage ⓘ major landmark in Glasgow ⓘ one of the finest surviving examples of Scottish Gothic architecture ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural events
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tourism ⓘ 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: St Mungo’s Cathedral Description of subject: St Mungo’s Cathedral is a medieval Church of Scotland cathedral in Glasgow, renowned as one of the finest surviving examples of Scottish Gothic architecture and a key site in the city’s religious and historical heritage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.