Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury
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Eliot Burying Ground in Roxbury is one of the oldest colonial cemeteries in Boston, notable as the resting place of prominent early Massachusetts figures such as Governor Joseph Dudley.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eliot Burying Ground | 1 |
| Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury canonical | 1 |
| Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Massachusetts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4202239 — 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: Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury Context triple: [Joseph Dudley, burialPlace, Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury]
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A.
Dorchester North Burying Ground
Dorchester North Burying Ground is a historic colonial-era cemetery in Dorchester, Massachusetts, notable as the resting place of prominent early New England figures.
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B.
Granary Burying Ground
Granary Burying Ground is a historic 17th-century cemetery in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, known as the resting place of several prominent figures of the American Revolution, including Paul Revere.
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C.
Trinity Church Cemetery
Trinity Church Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Manhattan, New York City, known as the resting place of many prominent figures from American history.
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D.
King's Chapel Burying Ground
King's Chapel Burying Ground is a historic 17th-century cemetery in downtown Boston, known as one of the city’s oldest graveyards and the resting place of many prominent colonial figures.
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E.
Charter Street Cemetery
Charter Street Cemetery, also known as the Old Burying Point Cemetery, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Salem, Massachusetts, notable for its colonial-era graves and connections to the Salem witch trials.
- 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: Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury Target entity description: Eliot Burying Ground in Roxbury is one of the oldest colonial cemeteries in Boston, notable as the resting place of prominent early Massachusetts figures such as Governor Joseph Dudley.
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A.
Dorchester North Burying Ground
Dorchester North Burying Ground is a historic colonial-era cemetery in Dorchester, Massachusetts, notable as the resting place of prominent early New England figures.
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B.
Granary Burying Ground
Granary Burying Ground is a historic 17th-century cemetery in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, known as the resting place of several prominent figures of the American Revolution, including Paul Revere.
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C.
Trinity Church Cemetery
Trinity Church Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Manhattan, New York City, known as the resting place of many prominent figures from American history.
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D.
King's Chapel Burying Ground
King's Chapel Burying Ground is a historic 17th-century cemetery in downtown Boston, known as one of the city’s oldest graveyards and the resting place of many prominent colonial figures.
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E.
Charter Street Cemetery
Charter Street Cemetery, also known as the Old Burying Point Cemetery, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Salem, Massachusetts, notable for its colonial-era graves and connections to the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial-era burying ground
ⓘ
historic cemetery ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| governedBy |
City of Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Eliot Burial Ground
ⓘ
linked to:
Granary Burial Ground
Eustis Street Burying Ground ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | example of early New England burial practices ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
historic site
ⓘ
memorial site ⓘ |
| hasGravestonesFromPeriod | colonial era ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasName |
Eliot Burying Ground
ⓘ
linked to:
Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury
|
| hasSignificance | resting place of prominent early Massachusetts figures ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfPlace | cemetery ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | one of the oldest colonial cemeteries in Boston ⓘ |
| inception | 17th century ⓘ |
| isPubliclyAccessible | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ
linked to:
Roxbury
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| municipality | Boston ⓘ |
| notableBurial |
Joseph Dudley
ⓘ
members of prominent early Massachusetts families ⓘ |
| partOf |
City of Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
Roxbury neighborhood ⓘ
linked to:
Roxbury neighborhood of Boston
|
| region | New England ⓘ |
| use | burial ground ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury Description of subject: Eliot Burying Ground in Roxbury is one of the oldest colonial cemeteries in Boston, notable as the resting place of prominent early Massachusetts figures such as Governor Joseph Dudley.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Governor Thomas Dudley
linked to: Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury
linked to: Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury