Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States
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Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois is a historically significant African-American burial ground known for being the resting place of civil rights figure Mamie Till-Mobley and other notable Black Americans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9420467 — 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: Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States Context triple: [Mamie Till-Mobley, burialPlace, Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States]
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Restvale Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States
Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, is a historically significant burial ground known for being the final resting place of numerous prominent African American blues and jazz musicians.
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B.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, is a major Roman Catholic cemetery in the Chicago area known as the final resting place of numerous prominent local political and religious figures.
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Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, grand Victorian funerary architecture, and landscaped grounds.
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D.
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.
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E.
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its notable burials, landscaped grounds, and significant funerary art and 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: Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States Target entity description: Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois is a historically significant African-American burial ground known for being the resting place of civil rights figure Mamie Till-Mobley and other notable Black Americans.
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A.
Restvale Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States
Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, is a historically significant burial ground known for being the final resting place of numerous prominent African American blues and jazz musicians.
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B.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, is a major Roman Catholic cemetery in the Chicago area known as the final resting place of numerous prominent local political and religious figures.
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C.
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, grand Victorian funerary architecture, and landscaped grounds.
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D.
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.
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E.
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its notable burials, landscaped grounds, and significant funerary art and architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | cemetery ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Emmett Till murder case
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civil rights history in the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalSignificance | important site of remembrance for African-American community in Chicago area ⓘ |
| ethnicFocus | African Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasGraveOf |
Emmett Till (original grave site)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mamie Till-Mobley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSection | sections dedicated to African-American burials ⓘ |
| hasType | commercial cemetery ⓘ |
| heritage | African-American history ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alsip, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ Cook County, Illinois ⓘ Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Chicago, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBurial |
Dinah Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emmett Till NERFINISHED ⓘ Ezzard Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Jesse Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ Mamie Till-Mobley NERFINISHED ⓘ other notable Black Americans ⓘ |
| partOf | network of historically Black cemeteries in the United States ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| significance | historically significant African-American burial ground ⓘ |
| usedFor |
burial
ⓘ
memorialization ⓘ |
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: Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States Description of subject: Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois is a historically significant African-American burial ground known for being the resting place of civil rights figure Mamie Till-Mobley and other notable Black Americans.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral
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burialPlace
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Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States
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subject surface form:
Mamie Till-Mobley