Oak Woods Cemetery
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Oak Woods Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Chicago, Illinois, known for being the final resting place of numerous prominent political figures, Civil War veterans, and cultural leaders.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oak Woods Cemetery canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T950220 — 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: Oak Woods Cemetery Context triple: [Lyman Trumbull, burialPlace, Oak Woods Cemetery]
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A.
Homewood Cemetery
Homewood Cemetery is a historic, landscaped burial ground in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known as the resting place of many prominent industrialists, politicians, and cultural figures.
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B.
Forest Home Cemetery
Forest Home Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Forest Park, Illinois, known for its association with labor history and as the resting place of several prominent radicals and reformers.
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C.
Youngs Memorial Cemetery
Youngs Memorial Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Oyster Bay, New York, best known as the final resting place of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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D.
Pet’s Rest Cemetery
Pet’s Rest Cemetery is a dedicated burial ground for companion animals located in the town of Colma, California.
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E.
Errancis Cemetery
Errancis Cemetery was a former Parisian burial ground best known as the temporary resting place of many victims of the French Revolution, including Maximilien Robespierre.
- 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: Oak Woods Cemetery Target entity description: Oak Woods Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Chicago, Illinois, known for being the final resting place of numerous prominent political figures, Civil War veterans, and cultural leaders.
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A.
Homewood Cemetery
Homewood Cemetery is a historic, landscaped burial ground in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known as the resting place of many prominent industrialists, politicians, and cultural figures.
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B.
Forest Home Cemetery
Forest Home Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Forest Park, Illinois, known for its association with labor history and as the resting place of several prominent radicals and reformers.
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C.
Youngs Memorial Cemetery
Youngs Memorial Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Oyster Bay, New York, best known as the final resting place of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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D.
Pet’s Rest Cemetery
Pet’s Rest Cemetery is a dedicated burial ground for companion animals located in the town of Colma, California.
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E.
Errancis Cemetery
Errancis Cemetery was a former Parisian burial ground best known as the temporary resting place of many victims of the French Revolution, including Maximilien Robespierre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
burial ground
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cemetery ⓘ historic cemetery ⓘ |
| area | over 180 acres ⓘ |
| burialPlaceOf |
African American community leaders
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Chicago political figures ⓘ Confederate prisoners of war ⓘ Enrico Fermi ⓘ Harold Washington ⓘ Ida B. Wells ⓘ Jesse Owens ⓘ Julius Rosenwald ⓘ Oscar Stanton De Priest ⓘ Timuel Black ⓘ Union soldiers ⓘ William Hale Thompson ⓘ business leaders ⓘ cultural figures ⓘ numerous Civil War veterans ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 41.769°N 87.594°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| foundedAs | rural cemetery ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeStyle |
Victorian-era cemetery design
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park-like landscape ⓘ |
| hasMemorial |
Civil War memorials
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Confederate Mound ⓘ
surface form:
Confederate Mound memorial
monuments to notable Chicagoans ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Confederate Mound
ⓘ
Union soldiers’ graves ⓘ mausoleums ⓘ memorials ⓘ monuments ⓘ |
| hasUse |
active cemetery
ⓘ
memorial site ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic cemetery in Chicago ⓘ |
| inception | 1850s ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Cook County, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInNeighborhood | Greater Grand Crossing, Chicago ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
South Side, Chicago
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago’s South Side
|
| notableFor |
burials of Civil War veterans
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burials of cultural leaders ⓘ burials of prominent political figures ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1854 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | private company ⓘ |
| serves | Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ |
| significantEvent | establishment of Confederate Mound after the Civil War ⓘ |
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: Oak Woods Cemetery Description of subject: Oak Woods Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Chicago, Illinois, known for being the final resting place of numerous prominent political figures, Civil War veterans, and cultural leaders.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Confederate Mound