Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, Virginia
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American Revolutionary War leader
burial ground
churchyard
historic cemetery
signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
Grace Episcopal Churchyard in Yorktown, Virginia is a historic colonial-era cemetery associated with Grace Episcopal Church and notable as the final resting place of American Revolutionary War leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Nelson Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, Virginia canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11601045 — 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: Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, Virginia Context triple: [Thomas Nelson Jr., burialPlace, Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, Virginia]
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A.
Bruton Parish Churchyard
Bruton Parish Churchyard is the historic burial ground associated with Bruton Parish Church in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, containing graves of early American settlers and notable colonial figures.
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B.
Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia
Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia is a historic burial ground associated with Christ Church, known for interring notable figures from American history.
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C.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent political figures, including long-serving U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr.
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D.
Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia
Ivy Hill Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia is a historic burial ground known, among other things, as the final resting place of rocket engineer Wernher von Braun.
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E.
Saint Mary’s Episcopal Churchyard, Burlington, New Jersey
Saint Mary’s Episcopal Churchyard in Burlington, New Jersey is a historic cemetery associated with Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church and the final resting place of prominent early American figures such as Elias Boudinot.
- 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: Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, Virginia Target entity description: Grace Episcopal Churchyard in Yorktown, Virginia is a historic colonial-era cemetery associated with Grace Episcopal Church and notable as the final resting place of American Revolutionary War leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Nelson Jr.
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A.
Bruton Parish Churchyard
Bruton Parish Churchyard is the historic burial ground associated with Bruton Parish Church in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, containing graves of early American settlers and notable colonial figures.
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B.
Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia
Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia is a historic burial ground associated with Christ Church, known for interring notable figures from American history.
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C.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent political figures, including long-serving U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr.
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D.
Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia
Ivy Hill Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia is a historic burial ground known, among other things, as the final resting place of rocket engineer Wernher von Braun.
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E.
Saint Mary’s Episcopal Churchyard, Burlington, New Jersey
Saint Mary’s Episcopal Churchyard in Burlington, New Jersey is a historic cemetery associated with Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church and the final resting place of prominent early American figures such as Elias Boudinot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War leader
ⓘ
burial ground ⓘ churchyard ⓘ historic cemetery ⓘ signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Grace Episcopal Church (Yorktown, Virginia) ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, Virginia ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | site associated with leaders of the American Revolution ⓘ |
| denomination | Anglican tradition ⓘ |
| hasFunction | cemetery for parishioners of Grace Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| hasHistoricAssociation | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| hasHistoricPeriod | American colonial period ⓘ |
| heritage | colonial-era ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic site ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Virginia
ⓘ
York County, Virginia ⓘ Yorktown, Virginia ⓘ
linked to:
Yorktown
historic town of Yorktown ⓘ |
| locatedNear | York River ⓘ |
| notableBurial | Thomas Nelson Jr. ⓘ |
| partOf | Grace Episcopal Church property ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Virginia ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| usedFor | 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: Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, Virginia Description of subject: Grace Episcopal Churchyard in Yorktown, Virginia is a historic colonial-era cemetery associated with Grace Episcopal Church and notable as the final resting place of American Revolutionary War leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Nelson Jr.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.