St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries
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St Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries is a historic Scottish burial ground best known as the resting place of Jean Armour, the wife of poet Robert Burns.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Michael’s Churchyard, Dumfries | 3 |
| St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries canonical | 1 |
| St Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6580712 — 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: St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries Context triple: [Jean Armour, placeOfBurial, St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries]
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A.
Dumfries Cemetery
Dumfries Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Dumfries, Virginia, known for being the final resting place of early American political figures such as William Grayson.
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B.
St. David’s churchyard
St. David’s churchyard is the historic burial ground associated with St. David’s Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania, known for its colonial-era graves and picturesque, old stone church setting.
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C.
Grange Cemetery
Grange Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Edinburgh, Scotland, known for being the resting place of several notable 19th-century figures, including geologist and writer Hugh Miller.
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D.
Greyfriars Church, Dumfries
Greyfriars Church in Dumfries is a historic Scottish church best known as the site where Robert the Bruce killed John Comyn in 1306, a pivotal event in Scotland’s Wars of Independence.
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E.
Greenock Cemetery
Greenock Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Greenock, Scotland, noted for its Victorian-era monuments and views over the River Clyde.
- 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: St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries Target entity description: St Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries is a historic Scottish burial ground best known as the resting place of Jean Armour, the wife of poet Robert Burns.
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A.
Dumfries Cemetery
Dumfries Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Dumfries, Virginia, known for being the final resting place of early American political figures such as William Grayson.
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B.
St. David’s churchyard
St. David’s churchyard is the historic burial ground associated with St. David’s Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania, known for its colonial-era graves and picturesque, old stone church setting.
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C.
Grange Cemetery
Grange Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Edinburgh, Scotland, known for being the resting place of several notable 19th-century figures, including geologist and writer Hugh Miller.
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D.
Greyfriars Church, Dumfries
Greyfriars Church in Dumfries is a historic Scottish church best known as the site where Robert the Bruce killed John Comyn in 1306, a pivotal event in Scotland’s Wars of Independence.
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E.
Greenock Cemetery
Greenock Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Greenock, Scotland, noted for its Victorian-era monuments and views over the River Clyde.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | cemetery ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
St Michael's Church, Dumfries
ⓘ
linked to:
St Michael’s Church, Dumfries
|
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
site associated with Robert Burns
ⓘ
site associated with Scottish literature ⓘ |
| denomination | Presbyterian ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Burns Mausoleum ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
burial place
ⓘ
memorial site ⓘ |
| hasGraveOf |
Jean Armour
ⓘ
Robert Burns ⓘ children of Robert Burns ⓘ family of Robert Burns ⓘ local notable figures from Dumfries ⓘ |
| hasNearbyPlace |
Dumfries town centre
ⓘ
River Nith ⓘ |
| hasStructureType |
gravestones
ⓘ
mausoleum ⓘ monuments ⓘ |
| heritage | historic burial ground ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic site in Dumfries and Galloway ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
parish of St Michael, Dumfries
ⓘ
linked to:
parish of Dumfries
|
| languageOfLocality |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dumfries
ⓘ
Dumfries and Galloway ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Michael ⓘ |
| notableFor |
resting place of Jean Armour
ⓘ
resting place of Robert Burns ⓘ |
| region |
Lowlands of Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Lowlands of Scotland
|
| religiousAffiliation | Church of Scotland ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| tourismType |
heritage tourism site
ⓘ
literary tourism site ⓘ |
| usedFor | Christian burials ⓘ |
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: St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries Description of subject: St Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries is a historic Scottish burial ground best known as the resting place of Jean Armour, the wife of poet Robert Burns.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries
linked to: St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries
linked to: St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries
linked to: St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries