Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, North Carolina
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Sunset Cemetery in Shelby, North Carolina is a historic burial ground known as the final resting place of controversial author and filmmaker Thomas Dixon Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, North Carolina canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5842901 — 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: Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, North Carolina Context triple: [Thomas Dixon Jr., placeOfBurial, Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, North Carolina]
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A.
Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, United States
Sunset Memorial Park in Smithfield, North Carolina, is a cemetery best known as the final resting place of Hollywood actress Ava Gardner.
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B.
Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known, among other things, as the final resting place of actor Sidney Blackmer.
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C.
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Oak Ridge Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, best known as the final resting place of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his family.
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D.
Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina
Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including architect Henry Bacon, and its picturesque Victorian-era funerary art and landscaping.
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E.
Cedar Grove Cemetery
Cedar Grove Cemetery is a historic burial ground in New Bern, North Carolina, known for its 19th-century graves and distinctive stone architecture.
- 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: Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, North Carolina Target entity description: Sunset Cemetery in Shelby, North Carolina is a historic burial ground known as the final resting place of controversial author and filmmaker Thomas Dixon Jr.
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A.
Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, United States
Sunset Memorial Park in Smithfield, North Carolina, is a cemetery best known as the final resting place of Hollywood actress Ava Gardner.
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B.
Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known, among other things, as the final resting place of actor Sidney Blackmer.
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C.
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Oak Ridge Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, best known as the final resting place of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his family.
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D.
Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina
Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including architect Henry Bacon, and its picturesque Victorian-era funerary art and landscaping.
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E.
Cedar Grove Cemetery
Cedar Grove Cemetery is a historic burial ground in New Bern, North Carolina, known for its 19th-century graves and distinctive stone architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | cemetery ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, North Carolina ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | approximate coordinates 35.28°N 81.54°W ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Sunset Cemetery ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial | Thomas Dixon Jr. ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
grave of Thomas Dixon Jr.
ⓘ
graves of local historical figures ⓘ |
| hasUse | burial ground ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic burial ground ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Shelby, North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Cleveland County, North Carolina
ⓘ
North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| servesCommunity | Shelby, North Carolina ⓘ |
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: Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, North Carolina Description of subject: Sunset Cemetery in Shelby, North Carolina is a historic burial ground known as the final resting place of controversial author and filmmaker Thomas Dixon Jr.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.