St Mary the Virgin, Heacham
E858895
St Mary the Virgin, Heacham is a historic Anglican parish church in the Norfolk village of Heacham, noted for its medieval architecture and longstanding role in the local community.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Church of St Mary the Virgin, Heacham | 3 |
| St Mary the Virgin, Heacham canonical | 2 |
| Parochial Church Council of Heacham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10388071 — 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 the Virgin, Heacham Context triple: [Heacham, hasChurch, St Mary the Virgin, Heacham]
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A.
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is a historic parish church in Cleobury Mortimer, England, noted for its distinctive crooked spire and medieval architecture.
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B.
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Butleigh, Somerset, England, noted for its traditional architecture and role in local religious life.
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C.
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is a historic Anglican parish church serving the community of Great Shelford in Cambridgeshire, England.
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D.
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is an Anglican parish church serving as a key place of worship and local landmark in the village of Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, England.
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E.
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is a historic Anglican parish church in Mortlake, London, noted for its longstanding role in the local community and traditional English ecclesiastical architecture.
- 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 the Virgin, Heacham Target entity description: St Mary the Virgin, Heacham is a historic Anglican parish church in the Norfolk village of Heacham, noted for its medieval architecture and longstanding role in the local community.
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A.
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is a historic parish church in Cleobury Mortimer, England, noted for its distinctive crooked spire and medieval architecture.
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B.
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is a historic Anglican parish church in the village of Butleigh, Somerset, England, noted for its traditional architecture and role in local religious life.
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C.
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is a historic Anglican parish church in Mortlake, London, noted for its longstanding role in the local community and traditional English ecclesiastical architecture.
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D.
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is a historic Anglican parish church serving the community of Great Shelford in Cambridgeshire, England.
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E.
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is an Anglican parish church serving as a key place of worship and local landmark in the village of Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican parish church
ⓘ
Grade I listed building ⓘ church building ⓘ |
| archdeaconry | Archdeaconry of Lynn ⓘ |
| associatedWith | village of Heacham community life ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| deanery | Heacham and Rising deanery ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | St Mary the Virgin ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Norwich ⓘ |
| ecclesiasticalProvince | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Parochial Church Council of Heacham
ⓘ
linked to:
St Mary the Virgin, Heacham
|
| hasArchitecturalFeature |
aisles
ⓘ
chancel ⓘ clerestory ⓘ hammerbeam roof ⓘ medieval font ⓘ nave ⓘ porch ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ west tower ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle | medieval architecture ⓘ |
| hasBells | ring of bells for change ringing ⓘ |
| hasBellTower | yes ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
churchyard
ⓘ
graveyard ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
flint
ⓘ
stone dressings ⓘ |
| hasNotablePeriod |
Victorian restoration
ⓘ
medieval period ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade I listed ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationBy | Historic England ⓘ |
| liturgicalUse | Anglican liturgy ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East of England
ⓘ
Heacham ⓘ Norfolk ⓘ |
| parish | Heacham ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | place of Christian worship ⓘ |
| publicAccess | open for worship and visitors ⓘ |
| significance |
historic parish church of Heacham
ⓘ
local community landmark ⓘ |
| tradition |
Anglican
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| usedFor |
baptisms
ⓘ
community events ⓘ funerals ⓘ parish worship ⓘ weddings ⓘ |
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 the Virgin, Heacham Description of subject: St Mary the Virgin, Heacham is a historic Anglican parish church in the Norfolk village of Heacham, noted for its medieval architecture and longstanding role in the local community.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Heacham, Norfolk, England
subject linked to:
Heacham, Norfolk, England
linked to: St Mary the Virgin, Heacham
linked to: St Mary the Virgin, Heacham
linked to: St Mary the Virgin, Heacham
linked to: St Mary the Virgin, Heacham