Brookwood Military Cemetery

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Commonwealth war cemetery

Brookwood Military Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, containing the graves and memorials of service personnel from both World Wars and later conflicts.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Brookwood Military Cemetery canonical	6
Brookwood CWGC Cemetery	1
Brookwood Military Cemetery area	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5662769 — 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: Brookwood Military Cemetery
Context triple: [Imperial War Graves Commission, notableCemetery, Brookwood Military Cemetery]

A. Aldershot Military Cemetery
Aldershot Military Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Aldershot, England, serving as the principal resting place for British Army personnel and their families stationed in the area.
B. Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery
Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground in Orkney, Scotland, commemorating naval personnel who died in the World Wars.
C. Brookwood American Cemetery
Brookwood American Cemetery is a World War I military burial ground in Surrey, England, honoring American service members who died in Europe.
D. 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.
E. Ors Communal Cemetery
Ors Communal Cemetery is a military and civilian burial ground in Ors, northern France, best known as the final resting place of renowned World War I poet Wilfred Owen.
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: Brookwood Military Cemetery
Target entity description: Brookwood Military Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, containing the graves and memorials of service personnel from both World Wars and later conflicts.

A. Aldershot Military Cemetery
Aldershot Military Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Aldershot, England, serving as the principal resting place for British Army personnel and their families stationed in the area.
B. Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery
Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground in Orkney, Scotland, commemorating naval personnel who died in the World Wars.
C. Brookwood American Cemetery
Brookwood American Cemetery is a World War I military burial ground in Surrey, England, honoring American service members who died in Europe.
D. 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.
E. Ors Communal Cemetery
Ors Communal Cemetery is a military and civilian burial ground in Ors, northern France, best known as the final resting place of renowned World War I poet Wilfred Owen.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Commonwealth war cemetery ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Brookwood CWGC Cemetery ⓘ linked to: Brookwood Military Cemetery
containsGravesFromConflict	First World War ⓘ linked to: World War I post-Second World War conflicts ⓘ
containsGravesOf	Commonwealth military personnel ⓘ civilian war dead ⓘ non-Commonwealth military personnel ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
established	1917 ⓘ
hasAccess	publicly accessible ⓘ
hasBurialsFromConflict	First World War ⓘ linked to: World War I Second World War ⓘ linked to: World War II later 20th-century conflicts ⓘ
hasBurialsFromCountry	Australia ⓘ Canada ⓘ India ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ South Africa ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ other Commonwealth nations ⓘ
hasCommemorationType	headstones ⓘ inscribed walls ⓘ memorial panels ⓘ
hasDesignation	war cemetery ⓘ
hasFeature	Cross of Sacrifice ⓘ Stone of Remembrance ⓘ
hasGraveType	marked war graves ⓘ unmarked war graves commemorated by memorials ⓘ
hasMemorial	Brookwood 1914–1918 Memorial ⓘ Brookwood 1939–1945 Memorial ⓘ memorials to missing service personnel ⓘ
hasSection	World War I plots ⓘ World War II plots ⓘ post-war military plots ⓘ
isLargest	largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom ⓘ
locatedIn	Surrey ⓘ
locatedNear	Woking ⓘ
location	Brookwood, Surrey, England ⓘ linked to: Brookwood, Surrey
maintainedBy	Commonwealth War Graves Commission ⓘ linked to: Imperial War Graves Commission
nearTransport	Brookwood railway station ⓘ
ownedBy	Commonwealth War Graves Commission ⓘ linked to: Imperial War Graves Commission
partOf	Brookwood Cemetery complex ⓘ linked to: Brookwood Cemetery
purpose	burial of military personnel ⓘ commemoration of Commonwealth war dead ⓘ
region	South East England ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Imperial War Graves Commission → notableCemetery → Brookwood Military Cemetery ⓘ

Brookwood Cemetery → hasNotableFeature → Brookwood Military Cemetery ⓘ

subject linked to: Brookwood

Brookwood Cemetery → hasPart → Brookwood Military Cemetery ⓘ

Brookwood, Surrey → hasNearbyMilitarySite → Brookwood Military Cemetery ⓘ

Italian Military Cemetery (Brookwood) → partOf → Brookwood Military Cemetery ⓘ

subject linked to: Italian Military Cemetery

Czech and Slovak Military Cemetery → partOf → Brookwood Military Cemetery area ⓘ

linked to: Brookwood Military Cemetery

Muslim Burial Ground, Woking (relocated burials) → burialsRelocatedTo → Brookwood Military Cemetery ⓘ

Brookwood Military Cemetery → alsoKnownAs → Brookwood CWGC Cemetery ⓘ