Southern Cemetery, Manchester
E251678
Southern Cemetery, Manchester is one of the largest municipal cemeteries in the United Kingdom, serving as a major Victorian-era burial ground for the city and the resting place of many notable figures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern Cemetery, Manchester canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2270011 — 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: Southern Cemetery, Manchester Context triple: [John Alcock, burialPlace, Southern Cemetery, Manchester]
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A.
Weaste Cemetery
Weaste Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Salford, Greater Manchester, known for its Victorian-era monuments and notable local interments.
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B.
Agecroft Cemetery
Agecroft Cemetery is a historic burial ground located in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, known for serving the local community as a major municipal cemetery.
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C.
Broadstone Cemetery
Broadstone Cemetery is a burial ground in Broadstone, Dorset, England, best known as the final resting place of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
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D.
St James Cemetery, Liverpool
St James Cemetery in Liverpool is a historic former burial ground, now a public garden, known for its notable interments and dramatic setting in a former sandstone quarry beside Liverpool Cathedral.
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E.
Brompton Cemetery
Brompton Cemetery is a historic Victorian garden cemetery in West London, known as one of the “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries and noted for its grand architecture and notable burials.
- 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: Southern Cemetery, Manchester Target entity description: Southern Cemetery, Manchester is one of the largest municipal cemeteries in the United Kingdom, serving as a major Victorian-era burial ground for the city and the resting place of many notable figures.
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A.
Weaste Cemetery
Weaste Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Salford, Greater Manchester, known for its Victorian-era monuments and notable local interments.
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B.
Agecroft Cemetery
Agecroft Cemetery is a historic burial ground located in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, known for serving the local community as a major municipal cemetery.
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C.
Broadstone Cemetery
Broadstone Cemetery is a burial ground in Broadstone, Dorset, England, best known as the final resting place of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
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D.
St James Cemetery, Liverpool
St James Cemetery in Liverpool is a historic former burial ground, now a public garden, known for its notable interments and dramatic setting in a former sandstone quarry beside Liverpool Cathedral.
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E.
Brompton Cemetery
Brompton Cemetery is a historic Victorian garden cemetery in West London, known as one of the “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries and noted for its grand architecture and notable burials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Victorian cemetery
ⓘ
cemetery ⓘ municipal cemetery ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Chorlton
ⓘ
surface form:
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | Victorian era ⓘ |
| hasAccess | public ⓘ |
| hasBurialType |
cremation
ⓘ
inhumation ⓘ |
| hasCoordinates |
approximate latitude 53.435° N
ⓘ
approximate longitude 2.241° W ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | major Victorian-era burial ground for Manchester ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
chapel
ⓘ
crematorium ⓘ gardens of remembrance ⓘ mature trees and landscaping ⓘ war memorials ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
place of remembrance
ⓘ
public burial ground ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeStyle | Victorian garden cemetery style ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial |
Enriqueta Rylands
ⓘ
Jerome Caminada ⓘ John Cassidy ⓘ John Rylands ⓘ L. S. Lowry ⓘ John Alcock ⓘ
surface form:
Sir John Alcock
Tony Wilson ⓘ members of the McDougall family ⓘ war casualties ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Church of England section
ⓘ
Jewish section ⓘ Muslim section ⓘ Nonconformist section ⓘ Roman Catholic section ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection | nearby bus routes on Barlow Moor Road ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade II registered park and garden ⓘ |
| inception | 1879 ⓘ |
| isOneOf | largest municipal cemeteries in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Manchester ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | City of Manchester ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | England ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Greater Manchester ⓘ |
| locatedOnStreet | Barlow Moor Road ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1879 ⓘ |
| operator | Manchester City Council ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Manchester City Council ⓘ |
| partOf | Manchester’s municipal cemetery system ⓘ |
| serves |
City of Manchester
ⓘ
Greater Manchester ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Manchester region
|
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: Southern Cemetery, Manchester Description of subject: Southern Cemetery, Manchester is one of the largest municipal cemeteries in the United Kingdom, serving as a major Victorian-era burial ground for the city and the resting place of many notable figures.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.