Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery, Homewood, Illinois, United States
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Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery is a burial ground in Homewood, Illinois, known as the final resting place of comedian and actor Bernie Mac.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery, Homewood, Illinois, United States canonical | 1 |
| Washington Memory Gardens, Homewood, Illinois | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8620661 — 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: Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery, Homewood, Illinois, United States Context triple: [Bernie Mac, burialPlace, Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery, Homewood, Illinois, United States]
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A.
Glendale Memorial Gardens, Pekin, Illinois
Glendale Memorial Gardens in Pekin, Illinois is a cemetery best known as the final resting place of longtime U.S. Senator and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen.
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B.
Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois is a historic burial ground known for its strong ties to labor history and radical politics, including serving as the resting place of several prominent figures associated with the Haymarket affair.
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C.
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Bloomington, Illinois is a historic burial ground known as the final resting place of prominent local figures, including community leader and Abraham Lincoln associate Jesse Fell.
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D.
Roselawn Cemetery, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Roselawn Cemetery in Champaign, Illinois, is a local burial ground notable as the final resting place of Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Bardeen.
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E.
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, Illinois, United States
Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, is a prominent Roman Catholic cemetery known for being the final resting place of numerous notable figures, including several Chicago mobsters.
- 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: Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery, Homewood, Illinois, United States Target entity description: Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery is a burial ground in Homewood, Illinois, known as the final resting place of comedian and actor Bernie Mac.
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A.
Glendale Memorial Gardens, Pekin, Illinois
Glendale Memorial Gardens in Pekin, Illinois is a cemetery best known as the final resting place of longtime U.S. Senator and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen.
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B.
Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois is a historic burial ground known for its strong ties to labor history and radical politics, including serving as the resting place of several prominent figures associated with the Haymarket affair.
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C.
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Bloomington, Illinois is a historic burial ground known as the final resting place of prominent local figures, including community leader and Abraham Lincoln associate Jesse Fell.
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D.
Roselawn Cemetery, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Roselawn Cemetery in Champaign, Illinois, is a local burial ground notable as the final resting place of Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Bardeen.
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E.
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, Illinois, United States
Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, is a prominent Roman Catholic cemetery known for being the final resting place of numerous notable figures, including several Chicago mobsters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | cemetery ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasCoordinateLocation | 41.56°N 87.65°W ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial |
Bernie Mac
ⓘ
Minnie Riperton ⓘ Redd Foxx ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryFunction | human burial site ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfUse | public cemetery ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Homewood, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Cook County, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | George Washington ⓘ |
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: Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery, Homewood, Illinois, United States Description of subject: Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery is a burial ground in Homewood, Illinois, known as the final resting place of comedian and actor Bernie Mac.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery, Homewood, Illinois, United States