Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California, United States
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Alta Mesa Memorial Park is a historic cemetery in Palo Alto, California, known as the resting place of several notable figures including Grateful Dead founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6218292 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California, United States Context triple: [Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, burialPlace, Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California, United States]
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Greenlawn Memorial Park, Colma, California, United States
Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma, California, is a cemetery known for being the final resting place of notable figures including former San Francisco mayor and California governor James Rolph.
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B.
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California, United States
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California, is a historic cemetery known as the final resting place of many prominent figures, including media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
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C.
Desert Lawn Memorial Park, Palmdale, California, United States
Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Palmdale, California is a cemetery and memorial park serving as a final resting place for local residents, including notable figures such as politician and test pilot Pete Knight.
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D.
Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Apple Valley, California, United States
Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley, California, is a cemetery best known as the final resting place of entertainer Dale Evans and her husband, singing cowboy Roy Rogers.
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E.
El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego, California, United States
El Camino Memorial Park is a notable cemetery and memorial park in San Diego, California, known as the final resting place of several prominent figures including former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle.
- 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: Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California, United States Target entity description: Alta Mesa Memorial Park is a historic cemetery in Palo Alto, California, known as the resting place of several notable figures including Grateful Dead founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.
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A.
Greenlawn Memorial Park, Colma, California, United States
Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma, California, is a cemetery known for being the final resting place of notable figures including former San Francisco mayor and California governor James Rolph.
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B.
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California, United States
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California, is a historic cemetery known as the final resting place of many prominent figures, including media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
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C.
Desert Lawn Memorial Park, Palmdale, California, United States
Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Palmdale, California is a cemetery and memorial park serving as a final resting place for local residents, including notable figures such as politician and test pilot Pete Knight.
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D.
Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Apple Valley, California, United States
Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley, California, is a cemetery best known as the final resting place of entertainer Dale Evans and her husband, singing cowboy Roy Rogers.
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E.
El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego, California, United States
El Camino Memorial Park is a notable cemetery and memorial park in San Diego, California, known as the final resting place of several prominent figures including former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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cemetery ⓘ memorial park ⓘ musician ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| buriedAt |
Alta Mesa Memorial Park
NERFINISHED
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Alta Mesa Memorial Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Alta Mesa Memorial Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Hewlett-Packard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| establishedIn | 1904 ⓘ |
| hasAddress | 695 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, California ⓘ |
| hasBurialType |
cremation
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niche interment ⓘ traditional in-ground burial ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLatitude | 37.397 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLongitude | -122.142 ⓘ |
| hasFindAGraveID | 7920 ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureID | 1657960 ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeFeature |
lawns
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memorial monuments ⓘ trees ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial |
Charles Herrold
NERFINISHED
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David Packard NERFINISHED ⓘ Mayfield and Palo Alto civic leaders ⓘ Ron "Pigpen" McKernan NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Jobs NERFINISHED ⓘ Terman family members ⓘ early Silicon Valley figures ⓘ |
| hasReligiousAffiliation | non-sectarian ⓘ |
| hasSection |
columbarium
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cremation garden ⓘ lawn cemetery section ⓘ mausoleum ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.altamesamemorialpark.com/ ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic cemetery ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Palo Alto, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Clara County ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Clara County, California
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| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Stanford University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Grateful Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Alta Mesa Memorial Park Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesCommunity |
Palo Alto
NERFINISHED
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Stanford area ⓘ surrounding Silicon Valley communities ⓘ |
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: Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California, United States Description of subject: Alta Mesa Memorial Park is a historic cemetery in Palo Alto, California, known as the resting place of several notable figures including Grateful Dead founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
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burialPlace
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Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California, United States
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