Hancock family tomb
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The Hancock family tomb is a historic burial site in Boston that contains the remains of prominent members of the influential Hancock family, including relatives of patriot and statesman John Hancock.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hancock family tomb canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1600192 — 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: Hancock family tomb Context triple: [Granary Burying Ground, hasFeature, Hancock family tomb]
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A.
Lee family crypt
The Lee family crypt is the burial site beneath Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where Confederate General Robert E. Lee and members of his family are interred.
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B.
Adams family crypt
The Adams family crypt is the burial site of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives, located beneath the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts.
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C.
Hamilton Mausoleum
Hamilton Mausoleum is a grand 19th-century stone mausoleum in Hamilton, Scotland, famed for its towering dome and remarkable acoustic echo.
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D.
Garfield Monument
The Garfield Monument is a public memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, with a prominent statue and sculptural group.
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E.
Monticello cemetery
Monticello cemetery is the historic family burial ground at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate near Charlottesville, Virginia, where Jefferson and many of his relatives are interred.
- 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: Hancock family tomb Target entity description: The Hancock family tomb is a historic burial site in Boston that contains the remains of prominent members of the influential Hancock family, including relatives of patriot and statesman John Hancock.
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A.
Lee family crypt
The Lee family crypt is the burial site beneath Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where Confederate General Robert E. Lee and members of his family are interred.
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B.
Adams family crypt
The Adams family crypt is the burial site of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives, located beneath the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts.
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C.
Hamilton Mausoleum
Hamilton Mausoleum is a grand 19th-century stone mausoleum in Hamilton, Scotland, famed for its towering dome and remarkable acoustic echo.
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D.
Garfield Monument
The Garfield Monument is a public memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, with a prominent statue and sculptural group.
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E.
Monticello cemetery
Monticello cemetery is the historic family burial ground at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate near Charlottesville, Virginia, where Jefferson and many of his relatives are interred.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family tomb
ⓘ
historic burial site ⓘ |
| architecturalType | tomb ⓘ |
| associatedFamily | Hancock family ⓘ |
| associatedWith | John Hancock ⓘ |
| city |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| containsRemainsOf |
members of the Hancock family
ⓘ
relatives of John Hancock ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Suffolk County, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| era | colonial era ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
site of interest for American Revolutionary history
ⓘ
site of interest for genealogy of Hancock family ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
association with American Revolutionary period
ⓘ
association with prominent colonial-era family ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic site in Boston ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| locatedInCemetery | Granary Burying Ground ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Hancock family ⓘ |
| onHeritageTrail |
Freedom Trail
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surface form:
Boston Freedom Trail (via Granary Burying Ground)
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| partOf |
Granary Burying Ground
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surface form:
Granary Burying Ground historic cemetery
|
| region | New England ⓘ |
| usedFor |
burial
ⓘ
family interments ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hancock family tomb Description of subject: The Hancock family tomb is a historic burial site in Boston that contains the remains of prominent members of the influential Hancock family, including relatives of patriot and statesman John Hancock.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.