John DeSalvo
E702026
John DeSalvo was an individual notable enough to be recognized among the distinguished burials at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John DeSalvo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7872594 — 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: John DeSalvo Context triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States, notableBurial, John DeSalvo]
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A.
Patrick Crouse
Patrick Crouse is the father of American actress Zosia Mamet and the husband of writer and actress Lindsay Crouse.
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B.
John Easterling
John Easterling is an American businessman and environmental entrepreneur best known as the husband of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and as the founder of the Amazon Herb Company.
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C.
Charles Dougherty
Charles Dougherty was a prominent 19th-century Georgia jurist and political figure for whom Dougherty County was named.
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D.
Robert D. San Souci
Robert D. San Souci was an American author and storyteller best known for his adaptations of folklore and fairy tales, including providing the story basis for Disney’s animated film "Mulan."
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E.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
- 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: John DeSalvo Target entity description: John DeSalvo was an individual notable enough to be recognized among the distinguished burials at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
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A.
Patrick Crouse
Patrick Crouse is the father of American actress Zosia Mamet and the husband of writer and actress Lindsay Crouse.
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B.
John Easterling
John Easterling is an American businessman and environmental entrepreneur best known as the husband of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and as the founder of the Amazon Herb Company.
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C.
Charles Dougherty
Charles Dougherty was a prominent 19th-century Georgia jurist and political figure for whom Dougherty County was named.
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D.
Robert D. San Souci
Robert D. San Souci was an American author and storyteller best known for his adaptations of folklore and fairy tales, including providing the story basis for Disney’s animated film "Mulan."
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E.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
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human ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Brooklyn, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Brooklyn
Holy Cross Cemetery ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Holy Cross Cemetery ⓘ |
| countryOfBurial |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| location |
Brooklyn, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Brooklyn
|
| notableFor | burial at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn ⓘ |
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: John DeSalvo Description of subject: John DeSalvo was an individual notable enough to be recognized among the distinguished burials at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.