Laurel Hill Cemetery
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Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic 19th-century rural cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, noted for its elaborate monuments and as the resting place of many prominent American figures.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laurel Hill Cemetery canonical | 21 |
| Laurel Hill Cemetery Company | 3 |
| Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia) | 1 |
| Laurel Hill Cemetery National Historic Landmark District | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5254366 — 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: Laurel Hill Cemetery Context triple: [George G. Meade, burialPlace, Laurel Hill Cemetery]
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A.
Oak Hill Cemetery
Oak Hill Cemetery is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., known for its picturesque landscape and notable burials.
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B.
Greenlawn Cemetery
Greenlawn Cemetery is a burial ground serving the community of Greenlawn in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
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C.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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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D.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Concord, Massachusetts, best known as the resting place of prominent American authors and thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott.
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E.
Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic burial ground recognized for its significant funerary art, notable interments, and inclusion within the Woodlawn Cemetery and Woodlawn National Cemetery Historic District.
- 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: Laurel Hill Cemetery Target entity description: Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic 19th-century rural cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, noted for its elaborate monuments and as the resting place of many prominent American figures.
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A.
Oak Hill Cemetery
Oak Hill Cemetery is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., known for its picturesque landscape and notable burials.
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B.
Greenlawn Cemetery
Greenlawn Cemetery is a burial ground serving the community of Greenlawn in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
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C.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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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D.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Concord, Massachusetts, best known as the resting place of prominent American authors and thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott.
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E.
Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic burial ground recognized for its significant funerary art, notable interments, and inclusion within the Woodlawn Cemetery and Woodlawn National Cemetery Historic District.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
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historic place ⓘ rural cemetery ⓘ |
| 19thCentury | true ⓘ |
| architect | John Notman ⓘ |
| burialPlaceOf |
Civil War officers
ⓘ
David Rittenhouse ⓘ Elisha Kent Kane ⓘ General George Gordon Meade ⓘ
linked to:
George G. Meade
Henry Disston ⓘ Louis Antoine Godey ⓘ Matthias W. Baldwin ⓘ Sarah Josepha Hale ⓘ members of the Widener family ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| founder | John Jay Smith ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1836 ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
guided tours
ⓘ
historical programs ⓘ walking visits ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
mature trees and plantings
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mausoleums ⓘ obelisks ⓘ sculptural monuments ⓘ terraced slopes ⓘ winding paths ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Central Laurel Hill Cemetery
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North Laurel Hill Cemetery ⓘ South Laurel Hill Cemetery ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
Victorian landscape design
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rural cemetery movement ⓘ |
| hasUse |
burial ground
ⓘ
memorial landscape ⓘ public park-like space ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
ⓘ
National Register of Historic Places listing ⓘ
linked to:
National Register of Historic Places
|
| heritageDesignationDate | 1998 ⓘ |
| inception | 1836 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Falls, Philadelphia
ⓘ
linked to:
East Falls
Pennsylvania ⓘ Philadelphia ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Schuylkill River ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Victorian funerary art
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burials of prominent American figures ⓘ elaborate funerary monuments ⓘ rural cemetery design ⓘ scenic river views ⓘ |
| NRHPType | district ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Laurel Hill Cemetery Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Laurel Hill Cemetery
|
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: Laurel Hill Cemetery Description of subject: Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic 19th-century rural cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, noted for its elaborate monuments and as the resting place of many prominent American figures.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
linked to: Laurel Hill Cemetery
subject linked to:
West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
linked to: Laurel Hill Cemetery
subject linked to:
Meade
linked to: Laurel Hill Cemetery
subject linked to:
Rear Admiral George W. Melville
subject linked to:
Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton
linked to: Laurel Hill Cemetery
linked to: Laurel Hill Cemetery