Old St. Mary’s Churchyard
E322027
Old St. Mary’s Churchyard is a historic burial ground in Philadelphia associated with Old St. Mary’s Church, known for its colonial-era graves and ties to early American history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old St. Mary’s Churchyard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3067712 — 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: Old St. Mary’s Churchyard Context triple: [Old St. Mary’s Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hasCemetery, Old St. Mary’s Churchyard]
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A.
St Oswald’s Churchyard
St Oswald’s Churchyard is the historic parish burial ground in Grasmere, Cumbria, best known as the resting place of poet William Wordsworth and his family.
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B.
St Giles churchyard
St Giles churchyard is the historic burial ground associated with the Church of St Giles-in-the-Fields in central London.
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C.
Bath Abbey Churchyard
Bath Abbey Churchyard is the historic burial ground and public space surrounding Bath Abbey in the center of Bath, England.
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D.
Broadstone Cemetery
Broadstone Cemetery is a burial ground in Broadstone, Dorset, England, best known as the final resting place of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
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E.
Gunnersbury Cemetery
Gunnersbury Cemetery is a London burial ground known for being the final resting place of several notable figures, including Polish World War II commander Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski.
- 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: Old St. Mary’s Churchyard Target entity description: Old St. Mary’s Churchyard is a historic burial ground in Philadelphia associated with Old St. Mary’s Church, known for its colonial-era graves and ties to early American history.
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A.
St Oswald’s Churchyard
St Oswald’s Churchyard is the historic parish burial ground in Grasmere, Cumbria, best known as the resting place of poet William Wordsworth and his family.
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B.
St Giles churchyard
St Giles churchyard is the historic burial ground associated with the Church of St Giles-in-the-Fields in central London.
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C.
Bath Abbey Churchyard
Bath Abbey Churchyard is the historic burial ground and public space surrounding Bath Abbey in the center of Bath, England.
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D.
Broadstone Cemetery
Broadstone Cemetery is a burial ground in Broadstone, Dorset, England, best known as the final resting place of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
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E.
Gunnersbury Cemetery
Gunnersbury Cemetery is a London burial ground known for being the final resting place of several notable figures, including Polish World War II commander Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
ⓘ
churchyard ⓘ historic burial ground ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Old St. Mary’s Church building ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Old St. Mary’s Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Old St. Mary's Church
|
| coordinateLocation | 39.944°N 75.148°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasCulturalContext | Catholic heritage in early America ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
churchyard walls
ⓘ
historic gravestones ⓘ monuments ⓘ |
| hasGraveType |
19th-century burials
ⓘ
colonial-era burials ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfSignage | English ⓘ |
| hasUse | burial ground ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic site ⓘ |
| inception | 18th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
colonial-era graves
ⓘ
ties to early American history ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Center City Philadelphia
ⓘ
Pennsylvania ⓘ Philadelphia ⓘ Society Hill ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Old St. Mary’s Church parish
ⓘ
linked to:
Old St. Mary's Church
|
| partOf | Old St. Mary’s Church complex ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Roman Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| significance |
colonial Philadelphia history
ⓘ
religious history of Philadelphia ⓘ |
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: Old St. Mary’s Churchyard Description of subject: Old St. Mary’s Churchyard is a historic burial ground in Philadelphia associated with Old St. Mary’s Church, known for its colonial-era graves and ties to early American history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.