Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Sleepy Hollow, New York, famed for its association with author Washington Irving and his classic tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sleepy Hollow Cemetery canonical | 15 |
| Old Dutch Burying Ground | 1 |
| Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Sleepy Hollow, New York) | 1 |
| Tarrytown Cemetery | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T29232 — 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: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Context triple: [Washington Irving, placeOfBurial, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]
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A.
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic garden cemetery and arboretum renowned as one of the first rural cemeteries in the United States and a significant cultural and natural landmark.
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B.
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Oak Ridge Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, best known as the final resting place of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his family.
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C.
Astor Mausoleum
The Astor Mausoleum is an ornate family tomb of the prominent Astor family located within Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York.
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D.
Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown
Phipps Street Burying Ground in Charlestown is a historic colonial-era cemetery best known as the final resting place of John Harvard, the namesake of Harvard University.
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E.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, is a historic, park-like burial ground renowned for its elaborate mausoleums, notable architecture, and many prominent American figures interred there.
- 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: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Target entity description: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Sleepy Hollow, New York, famed for its association with author Washington Irving and his classic tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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A.
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic garden cemetery and arboretum renowned as one of the first rural cemeteries in the United States and a significant cultural and natural landmark.
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B.
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Oak Ridge Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, best known as the final resting place of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his family.
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C.
Astor Mausoleum
The Astor Mausoleum is an ornate family tomb of the prominent Astor family located within Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York.
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D.
Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown
Phipps Street Burying Ground in Charlestown is a historic colonial-era cemetery best known as the final resting place of John Harvard, the namesake of Harvard University.
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E.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, is a historic, park-like burial ground renowned for its elaborate mausoleums, notable architecture, and many prominent American figures interred there.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
ⓘ
historic site ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow churchyard
|
| associatedWith |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
ⓘ
Washington Irving ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | Gothic literature ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme | American folklore ⓘ |
| burialType | non-sectarian ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| established | 1849 ⓘ |
| formerlyKnownAs |
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Tarrytown Cemetery
|
| foundedIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasCoordinates | 41.089°N 73.858°W ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
family plots
ⓘ
landscaped grounds ⓘ mausoleums ⓘ monumental tombstones ⓘ winding roads ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial |
Andrew Carnegie
ⓘ
Brooke Astor ⓘ Charles L. Tiffany ⓘ Elizabeth Arden ⓘ John D. Rockefeller Jr. family members ⓘ John Dustin Archbold ⓘ Samuel Gompers ⓘ Vincent Astor ⓘ Walter Chrysler ⓘ Jack Chrysler ⓘ
surface form:
Walter Percy Chrysler Jr.
Washington Irving ⓘ William Rockefeller ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://sleepyhollowcemetery.org ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark District contributing property
ⓘ
listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York
ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
Sleepy Hollow, New York ⓘ Westchester County, New York ⓘ |
| locatedOn | east bank of the Hudson River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sleepy Hollow ⓘ |
| near |
Rockefeller State Park Preserve
ⓘ
Tarrytown, New York ⓘ |
| offers |
Halloween season tours
ⓘ
guided tours ⓘ |
| openTo | public ⓘ |
| ownedBy | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| separatedFrom |
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow churchyard
|
| tourismType | heritage tourism site ⓘ |
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: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Description of subject: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Sleepy Hollow, New York, famed for its association with author Washington Irving and his classic tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Old Dutch Burying Ground
this entity surface form:
Tarrytown Cemetery
subject surface form:
Mount Pleasant, New York
this entity surface form:
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Sleepy Hollow, New York)