Tikhvin Cemetery
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Tikhvin Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, renowned as the resting place of many prominent Russian cultural figures, including Fyodor Dostoevsky.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tikhvin Cemetery canonical | 5 |
| Tikhvin Cemetery (adjacent area) | 1 |
| Tikhvin Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra | 1 |
| Tikhvin Cemetery, Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Saint Petersburg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1258248 — 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: Tikhvin Cemetery Context triple: [Fyodor Dostoevsky, burialPlace, Tikhvin Cemetery]
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A.
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery is a vast war memorial and burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, honoring hundreds of thousands of victims and defenders of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.
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B.
Khamovniki Cemetery
Khamovniki Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Moscow, Russia, known for being the final resting place of notable cultural and public figures.
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C.
Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery is a prestigious Moscow burial ground known as the resting place of many of Russia’s most prominent political, cultural, and scientific figures.
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D.
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is a prestigious burial site in Moscow’s Red Square where many prominent Soviet leaders and figures are interred.
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E.
Trumpeldor Cemetery
Trumpeldor Cemetery is a historic Jewish burial ground in central Tel Aviv, Israel, known as the resting place of many prominent Zionist leaders, writers, and cultural figures.
- 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: Tikhvin Cemetery Target entity description: Tikhvin Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, renowned as the resting place of many prominent Russian cultural figures, including Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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A.
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery is a vast war memorial and burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, honoring hundreds of thousands of victims and defenders of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.
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B.
Khamovniki Cemetery
Khamovniki Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Moscow, Russia, known for being the final resting place of notable cultural and public figures.
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C.
Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery is a prestigious Moscow burial ground known as the resting place of many of Russia’s most prominent political, cultural, and scientific figures.
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D.
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is a prestigious burial site in Moscow’s Red Square where many prominent Soviet leaders and figures are interred.
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E.
Trumpeldor Cemetery
Trumpeldor Cemetery is a historic Jewish burial ground in central Tel Aviv, Israel, known as the resting place of many prominent Zionist leaders, writers, and cultural figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
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historic cemetery ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Necropolis of the Masters of Art ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle | Russian Orthodox funerary art ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | 59.923°N 30.396°E ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chapel
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family burial plots ⓘ individual tombs ⓘ memorial monuments ⓘ |
| hasUse |
burial place
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memorial necropolis ⓘ museum necropolis ⓘ |
| hasVisitorPurpose |
cultural tourism
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historical research ⓘ pilgrimage to graves of cultural figures ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | object of cultural heritage of Russia ⓘ |
| inception | 1823 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
St. Petersburg
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surface form:
Saint Petersburg
Tikhvin Cemetery self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tikhvin Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Tsentralny District of Saint Petersburg ⓘ
surface form:
Tsentralny District, Saint Petersburg
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| notableBurial |
Alexandre Benois
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surface form:
Alexander Benois
Alexander Borodin ⓘ Alexander Dargomyzhsky ⓘ César Cui ⓘ Feodor Chaliapin ⓘ Fyodor Dostoevsky ⓘ Ilya Repin ⓘ Marius Petipa ⓘ Mikhail Glinka ⓘ Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin ⓘ Modest Mussorgsky ⓘ Nikolai Chernyshevsky ⓘ Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ⓘ Nikolai Nekrasov ⓘ
surface form:
Nikolay Nekrasov
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ⓘ Vasily Perov ⓘ Vladimir Stasov ⓘ |
| operator | Alexander Nevsky Lavra ⓘ |
| partOf | Alexander Nevsky Lavra ⓘ |
| religion | Russian Orthodox Church ⓘ |
| significantEvent | transfer of many artists’ remains from other cemeteries in the 1930s ⓘ |
| theme |
Russian literature
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Russian music ⓘ Russian visual arts ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Tikhvin Cemetery Description of subject: Tikhvin Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, renowned as the resting place of many prominent Russian cultural figures, including Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tikhvin Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra
this entity surface form:
Tikhvin Cemetery, Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Saint Petersburg
this entity surface form:
Tikhvin Cemetery (adjacent area)