Graceland Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States
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Graceland Cemetery in Washington, D.C., was a historic African American burial ground that served as the final resting place for many notable Black residents during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Graceland Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12808413 — 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: Graceland Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States Context triple: [Charles Remond Douglass, burialPlace, Graceland Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States]
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A.
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States
Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its picturesque landscape and notable burials, including members of prominent American political families.
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B.
Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) is a historic burial ground in the nation’s capital known for being the final resting place of many prominent African American leaders and community figures.
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C.
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments and significant funerary art and sculpture.
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D.
Potter's Field, Washington, D.C.
Potter's Field in Washington, D.C. was a public paupers' cemetery historically used for the unclaimed or indigent dead, including the burial of presidential assassin Charles J. Guiteau.
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E.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic Catholic burial ground notable for being the final resting place of prominent figures including James Hoban, the architect of the White House.
- 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: Graceland Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States Target entity description: Graceland Cemetery in Washington, D.C., was a historic African American burial ground that served as the final resting place for many notable Black residents during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States
Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its picturesque landscape and notable burials, including members of prominent American political families.
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B.
Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) is a historic burial ground in the nation’s capital known for being the final resting place of many prominent African American leaders and community figures.
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C.
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments and significant funerary art and sculpture.
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D.
Potter's Field, Washington, D.C.
Potter's Field in Washington, D.C. was a public paupers' cemetery historically used for the unclaimed or indigent dead, including the burial of presidential assassin Charles J. Guiteau.
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E.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic Catholic burial ground notable for being the final resting place of prominent figures including James Hoban, the architect of the White House.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
burial ground
ⓘ
historic African American cemetery ⓘ |
| associatedWith | African American community institutions in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| category |
African-American cemeteries in Washington, D.C.
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Historic cemeteries in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicFocus | African American community ⓘ |
| function | final resting place for Black residents of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| heritage |
African American history
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Black history in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
commemoration of notable Black residents in the 19th and early 20th centuries
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documenting African American burial practices in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
District of Columbia
NERFINISHED
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Northeast Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a burial place for many notable Black residents of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| servesAs | cemetery for African Americans ⓘ |
| usedDuringPeriod |
19th century
ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ |
| usedFor | interment of African American Civil War–era and post–Civil War residents ⓘ |
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: Graceland Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States Description of subject: Graceland Cemetery in Washington, D.C., was a historic African American burial ground that served as the final resting place for many notable Black residents during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.