San Michele
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San Michele is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon best known as Venice’s historic cemetery island, housing monumental tombs and a Renaissance church.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San Michele canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5223313 — 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: San Michele Context triple: [Venetian Lagoon, contains, San Michele]
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A.
San Leonardo
San Leonardo is a landlocked agricultural municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija in the Philippines, known for its rice farming and rural communities.
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B.
Sant’Erasmo
Sant’Erasmo is a large, sparsely populated island in the Venetian Lagoon known for its agricultural fields and vegetable production, especially artichokes.
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C.
San Savino
San Savino is a small locality within the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
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D.
San Vincenzo
San Vincenzo is a coastal town and popular seaside resort on the Tyrrhenian Sea in Tuscany, central Italy.
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E.
San Michele Maggiore
San Michele Maggiore is a prominent Romanesque basilica in Pavia, Italy, renowned for its distinctive sandstone façade and historical significance as a site of royal coronations.
- 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: San Michele Target entity description: San Michele is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon best known as Venice’s historic cemetery island, housing monumental tombs and a Renaissance church.
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A.
San Leonardo
San Leonardo is a landlocked agricultural municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija in the Philippines, known for its rice farming and rural communities.
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B.
Sant’Erasmo
Sant’Erasmo is a large, sparsely populated island in the Venetian Lagoon known for its agricultural fields and vegetable production, especially artichokes.
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C.
San Savino
San Savino is a small locality within the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
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D.
San Vincenzo
San Vincenzo is a coastal town and popular seaside resort on the Tyrrhenian Sea in Tuscany, central Italy.
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E.
San Michele Maggiore
San Michele Maggiore is a prominent Romanesque basilica in Pavia, Italy, renowned for its distinctive sandstone façade and historical significance as a site of royal coronations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
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cemetery island ⓘ island ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| connectedBy | water transport ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Michael NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBuilding |
Renaissance church
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cemetery structures ⓘ monastery complex ⓘ |
| hasFunction | cemetery for Venice ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Cappella Emiliana
NERFINISHED
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Church of San Michele in Isola NERFINISHED ⓘ Cimitero di San Michele NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaissance cloister ⓘ monumental tombs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial |
Christian Doppler
NERFINISHED
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Emilio Vedova NERFINISHED ⓘ Eugenio Miozzi NERFINISHED ⓘ Ezra Pound NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick Rolfe NERFINISHED ⓘ Igor Stravinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Brodsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Luigi Nono NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergei Diaghilev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousAffiliation | Roman Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUse |
burial site
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crematorium site ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | part of Venice and its Lagoon UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Renaissance architecture
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graves of notable figures ⓘ historic cemetery ⓘ monumental tombs ⓘ quiet atmosphere ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Italy
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Metropolitan City of Venice NERFINISHED ⓘ Venetian Lagoon NERFINISHED ⓘ Veneto ⓘ Venice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Fondamente Nove
NERFINISHED
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Murano NERFINISHED ⓘ Venice historic center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| separatedBy | Canale di San Michele ⓘ |
| separatedFrom | Venice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedBy | Venetian vaporetto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSitePartOf | Venice and its Lagoon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: San Michele Description of subject: San Michele is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon best known as Venice’s historic cemetery island, housing monumental tombs and a Renaissance church.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
San Michele Cemetery