St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans is the city’s oldest and most famous above-ground cemetery, renowned for its historic tombs and notable burials.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans | 1 |
| St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans | 1 |
| St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1356162 — 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: St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans Context triple: [Homer Plessy, placeOfBurial, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans]
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A.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is a historic 19th-century above-ground cemetery in New Orleans known for its ornate tombs and atmospheric setting.
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B.
Hollywood Cemetery
Hollywood Cemetery is a historic 19th-century cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, known for its elaborate monuments and as the burial site of U.S. presidents and Confederate leaders.
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C.
Graceland Cemetery
Graceland Cemetery is a historic Chicago burial ground known for its notable architecture, landscaped grounds, and as the resting place of many prominent figures in the city’s history.
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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.
Mount Hope Cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic Victorian-era burial ground in Rochester, New York, known for its notable interments, picturesque landscape, and status as one of America’s first municipal cemeteries.
- 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: St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans Target entity description: St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans is the city’s oldest and most famous above-ground cemetery, renowned for its historic tombs and notable burials.
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A.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is a historic 19th-century above-ground cemetery in New Orleans known for its ornate tombs and atmospheric setting.
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B.
Hollywood Cemetery
Hollywood Cemetery is a historic 19th-century cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, known for its elaborate monuments and as the burial site of U.S. presidents and Confederate leaders.
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C.
Graceland Cemetery
Graceland Cemetery is a historic Chicago burial ground known for its notable architecture, landscaped grounds, and as the resting place of many prominent figures in the city’s history.
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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.
Mount Hope Cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic Victorian-era burial ground in Rochester, New York, known for its notable interments, picturesque landscape, and status as one of America’s first municipal cemeteries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
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historic site ⓘ |
| accessPolicy |
guided tours only
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restricted public access ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | above-ground tombs ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Catholic burial traditions
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Creole culture ⓘ New Orleans Voodoo ⓘ |
| burialType | above-ground ⓘ |
| climateImpact | built with above-ground tombs due to high water table ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dateOfEstablishment | 1789 ⓘ |
| elevation | near sea level ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
family tombs
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mausoleums ⓘ narrow aisles ⓘ stuccoed brick tombs ⓘ vaults ⓘ wall vaults ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| inception | 18th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
French Quarter
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Louisiana ⓘ New Orleans ⓘ Orleans Parish ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
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surface form:
Archdiocese of New Orleans
|
| nearby |
Basin Street
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Tchoupitoulas Street ⓘ
surface form:
Iberville Street
St. Louis Street ⓘ |
| notableBurial |
Bernard de Marigny
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Ernest Nathan Morial ⓘ
surface form:
Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial
Etienne de Boré ⓘ Homer Plessy ⓘ Marie Laveau ⓘ Paul Morphy ⓘ |
| NRHPReferenceNumber | 70000255 ⓘ |
| NRHPType | historic district ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOfSignage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
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surface form:
Archdiocese of New Orleans
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| partOf |
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans
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| significance |
important Creole burial ground
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major tourist attraction ⓘ most famous cemetery in New Orleans ⓘ oldest extant cemetery in New Orleans ⓘ |
| tourism |
frequented by heritage tourists
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popular filming location ⓘ |
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: St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans Description of subject: St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans is the city’s oldest and most famous above-ground cemetery, renowned for its historic tombs and notable burials.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harry T. Hays
this entity surface form:
Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
→
partOf
→
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
this entity surface form:
St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans