Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent figures including civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States canonical | 8 |
| Woodlawn Cemetery Association (Detroit) | 1 |
| Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T804504 — 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: Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States Context triple: [Rosa Parks, burialPlace, Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States]
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Ford Cemetery, Detroit
Ford Cemetery in Detroit is a historic burial ground notable as the final resting place of industrialist Henry Ford.
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B.
Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, is a historic garden-style cemetery known for its elaborate monuments and as the final resting place of many prominent American figures.
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C.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, is a historic, park-like burial ground renowned for its elaborate mausoleums, notable architecture, and many prominent American figures interred there.
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D.
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a large, historic rural cemetery and arboretum renowned for its picturesque landscape design and notable burials.
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E.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York, United States
Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of author Mark Twain and members of his family.
- 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: Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States Target entity description: Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent figures including civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
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A.
Ford Cemetery, Detroit
Ford Cemetery in Detroit is a historic burial ground notable as the final resting place of industrialist Henry Ford.
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B.
Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, is a historic garden-style cemetery known for its elaborate monuments and as the final resting place of many prominent American figures.
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C.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, is a historic, park-like burial ground renowned for its elaborate mausoleums, notable architecture, and many prominent American figures interred there.
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D.
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a large, historic rural cemetery and arboretum renowned for its picturesque landscape design and notable burials.
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E.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York, United States
Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of author Mark Twain and members of his family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
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historic place ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasCoordinates | 42.424°N 83.074°W ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
landscaped grounds
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mausoleums ⓘ monuments ⓘ |
| hasUse | burial ground ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Michigan State Historic Site ⓘ |
| inception | 1895 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Detroit
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surface form:
Detroit, Michigan
Michigan ⓘ Wayne County, Michigan ⓘ |
| notableBurial |
Albert Cobo
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Aretha Franklin ⓘ Charles A. Baird NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles A. DuCharme ⓘ Charles Lindbergh ⓘ
surface form:
Charles A. Lindbergh Sr.
Damon Keith ⓘ David Whitney Jr. ⓘ Dexter M. Ferry ⓘ Edmund C. Shields NERFINISHED ⓘ Edsel Ford ⓘ Hamilton Carhartt ⓘ Hazel Scott ⓘ Henry Leland ⓘ
surface form:
Henry M. Leland
Horace Rackham ⓘ James J. Couzens ⓘ James Vernor ⓘ John B. Ford ⓘ John Conyers ⓘ Lewis Cass Ledyard ⓘ Philip Hart ⓘ
surface form:
Philip A. Hart
Rosa Parks ⓘ Roy D. Chapin ⓘ Tracy McGregor ⓘ William C. Maybury ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Woodlawn Cemetery Association (Detroit)
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| religiousAffiliation | non-sectarian ⓘ |
| significantFor |
burials of civil rights leaders
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burials of musicians ⓘ burials of political figures ⓘ burials of prominent Detroit industrialists ⓘ |
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: Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States Description of subject: Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent figures including civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States
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ownedBy
→
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit)
this entity surface form:
Woodlawn Cemetery Association (Detroit)
this entity surface form:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit