Machpelah Cemetery, Queens, New York City
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Machpelah Cemetery in Queens, New York City is a historic Jewish burial ground best known as the final resting place of famed illusionist Harry Houdini.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Machpelah Cemetery, Queens, New York City canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10964333 — 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: Machpelah Cemetery, Queens, New York City Context triple: [Harry Houdini, burialPlace, Machpelah Cemetery, Queens, New York City]
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Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, New York
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens, New York, is a large Jewish burial ground known for being the final resting place of many notable figures from the arts, sciences, and public life.
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B.
Temple Emanu-El Cemetery, Valhalla, New York
Temple Emanu-El Cemetery in Valhalla, New York is a Jewish burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent figures including former New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger.
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C.
Mount Sinai Cemetery, New York City
Mount Sinai Cemetery in New York City is a Jewish burial ground known for being the final resting place of numerous notable figures, including acclaimed film director Sidney Lumet.
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D.
Cypress Hills Cemetery, New York City
Cypress Hills Cemetery in New York City is a historic, non-sectarian burial ground in Brooklyn and Queens known for its notable interments and expansive, park-like landscape.
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E.
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens
Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens is a historic Jewish burial ground in New York City known for being the resting place of many prominent figures, including Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem.
- 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: Machpelah Cemetery, Queens, New York City Target entity description: Machpelah Cemetery in Queens, New York City is a historic Jewish burial ground best known as the final resting place of famed illusionist Harry Houdini.
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A.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, New York
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens, New York, is a large Jewish burial ground known for being the final resting place of many notable figures from the arts, sciences, and public life.
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B.
Temple Emanu-El Cemetery, Valhalla, New York
Temple Emanu-El Cemetery in Valhalla, New York is a Jewish burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent figures including former New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger.
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C.
Mount Sinai Cemetery, New York City
Mount Sinai Cemetery in New York City is a Jewish burial ground known for being the final resting place of numerous notable figures, including acclaimed film director Sidney Lumet.
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D.
Cypress Hills Cemetery, New York City
Cypress Hills Cemetery in New York City is a historic, non-sectarian burial ground in Brooklyn and Queens known for its notable interments and expansive, park-like landscape.
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E.
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens
Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens is a historic Jewish burial ground in New York City known for being the resting place of many prominent figures, including Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish cemetery
ⓘ
burial ground ⓘ cemetery ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | site of Harry Houdini’s grave ⓘ |
| hasGraveOf | Harry Houdini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfInscriptions |
English
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasSubjectOf |
articles on Jewish cemeteries in New York City
ⓘ
books about Harry Houdini ⓘ documentaries about Harry Houdini ⓘ |
| hasTourismType |
dark tourism site
ⓘ
heritage tourism site ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfGraves |
family plots
ⓘ
individual graves ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic cemetery ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
New York City borough of Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ Queens ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Cave of Machpelah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBurial |
Cecilia Weiss
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Houdini NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Weiss NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodore Hardeen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | cemeteries in Queens, New York ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | Jewish 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: Machpelah Cemetery, Queens, New York City Description of subject: Machpelah Cemetery in Queens, New York City is a historic Jewish burial ground best known as the final resting place of famed illusionist Harry Houdini.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harry Houdini