Etaples Military Cemetery
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Étaples Military Cemetery is a large Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground in northern France, commemorating thousands of soldiers who died in the First World War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Etaples Military Cemetery canonical | 1 |
| Étaples Military Cemetery | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5662768 — 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: Etaples Military Cemetery Context triple: [Imperial War Graves Commission, notableCemetery, Etaples Military Cemetery]
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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.
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B.
Tyne Cot Cemetery
Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world, serving as a major burial ground and memorial for soldiers who died in the First World War on the Ypres Salient in Belgium.
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C.
Bayeux War Cemetery
Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth military cemetery of World War II in France, commemorating soldiers who died during and after the Normandy landings.
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D.
Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery
Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery is a First World War military burial ground in northern France where British Commonwealth and French soldiers who fell on the Somme are interred side by side as a symbol of shared sacrifice.
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E.
Brookwood Military 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.
- 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: Etaples Military Cemetery Target entity description: Étaples Military Cemetery is a large Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground in northern France, commemorating thousands of soldiers who died in the First World War.
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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.
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B.
Tyne Cot Cemetery
Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world, serving as a major burial ground and memorial for soldiers who died in the First World War on the Ypres Salient in Belgium.
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C.
Bayeux War Cemetery
Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth military cemetery of World War II in France, commemorating soldiers who died during and after the Normandy landings.
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D.
Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery
Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery is a First World War military burial ground in northern France where British Commonwealth and French soldiers who fell on the Somme are interred side by side as a symbol of shared sacrifice.
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E.
Brookwood Military 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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | military cemetery ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Classical revival ⓘ |
| category |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in France
ⓘ
linked to:
Commonwealth war cemeteries
World War I cemeteries in France ⓘ |
| conflictCommemorated |
First World War
ⓘ
linked to:
World War I
Second World War ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| containsGravesOf |
Australian soldiers
ⓘ
British soldiers ⓘ Canadian soldiers ⓘ Commonwealth military personnel ⓘ German war dead ⓘ Indian soldiers ⓘ New Zealand soldiers ⓘ South African soldiers ⓘ medical personnel ⓘ nurses ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| designedBy | Edwin Lutyens ⓘ |
| hasCommemorativeLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Cross of Sacrifice
ⓘ
Stone of Remembrance ⓘ Stone pavilions ⓘ central axis ⓘ formal planting ⓘ terraced layout ⓘ |
| hasGraveType |
marked graves
ⓘ
special memorials ⓘ unknown soldiers ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Hauts-de-France ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Boulogne-sur-Mer
ⓘ
the English Channel ⓘ
linked to:
English Channel
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| location |
Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, France
ⓘ
linked to:
Étaples, France
|
| maintainedBy |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperial War Graves Commission
|
| notableFor |
being one of the largest CWGC cemeteries in France
ⓘ
large number of First World War burials ⓘ |
| periodOfUse |
First World War
ⓘ
Second World War ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| purpose | commemoration of war dead ⓘ |
| usedAs | base hospital cemetery ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Australian forces
ⓘ
British Army ⓘ Canadian forces ⓘ Commonwealth forces ⓘ
linked to:
British Commonwealth forces
Indian Army ⓘ New Zealand forces ⓘ
linked to:
New Zealand Expeditionary Force
South African forces ⓘ
linked to:
Union Defence Force of South Africa
|
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: Etaples Military Cemetery Description of subject: Étaples Military Cemetery is a large Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground in northern France, commemorating thousands of soldiers who died in the First World War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Etaples Military Cemetery