Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States
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Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois, is a historic African-American burial ground known as the final resting place of notable Black figures, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States canonical | 12 |
| Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3403628 — 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: Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States Context triple: [Gwendolyn Brooks, burialPlace, Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States]
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A.
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, grand Victorian funerary architecture, and landscaped grounds.
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B.
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its notable burials, landscaped grounds, and significant funerary art and architecture.
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C.
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, Illinois, United States
Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, is a prominent Roman Catholic cemetery known for being the final resting place of numerous notable figures, including several Chicago mobsters.
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D.
Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago
Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of numerous notable figures, including prominent politicians, athletes, and cultural leaders.
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E.
Masonic Cemetery, Metropolis, Illinois, United States
Masonic Cemetery in Metropolis, Illinois, is a burial ground best known as the final resting place of Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz."
- 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: Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States Target entity description: Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois, is a historic African-American burial ground known as the final resting place of notable Black figures, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
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A.
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, grand Victorian funerary architecture, and landscaped grounds.
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B.
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its notable burials, landscaped grounds, and significant funerary art and architecture.
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C.
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, Illinois, United States
Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, is a prominent Roman Catholic cemetery known for being the final resting place of numerous notable figures, including several Chicago mobsters.
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D.
Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago
Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of numerous notable figures, including prominent politicians, athletes, and cultural leaders.
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E.
Masonic Cemetery, Metropolis, Illinois, United States
Masonic Cemetery in Metropolis, Illinois, is a burial ground best known as the final resting place of Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African-American cemetery
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cemetery ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| isHistoric | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Blue Island, Illinois
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Cook County, Illinois ⓘ Illinois ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| notableBurial | Gwendolyn Brooks ⓘ |
| notableFor | burials of notable African Americans ⓘ |
| occupation | poet ⓘ |
| servesCommunity | African-American community ⓘ |
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: Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States Description of subject: Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois, is a historic African-American burial ground known as the final resting place of notable Black figures, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States
Andrew Rube Foster
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burialPlace
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Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
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subject linked to:
Andrew Foster
linked to: Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois, United States
subject linked to:
Brave Bessie