St Mary’s Churchyard, Gisburn, Lancashire, England
E260860
St Mary’s Churchyard in Gisburn, Lancashire, England is a historic rural church burial ground notable as the final resting place of American socialite Ava Lowle Willing, the first wife of John Jacob Astor IV.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St Mary’s Churchyard, Gisburn, Lancashire, England canonical | 2 |
| St Mary’s Church, Gisburn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2384065 — 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 Mary’s Churchyard, Gisburn, Lancashire, England Context triple: [Ava Lowle Willing, burialPlace, St Mary’s Churchyard, Gisburn, Lancashire, England]
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A.
St Oswald’s Churchyard
St Oswald’s Churchyard is the historic parish burial ground in Grasmere, Cumbria, best known as the resting place of poet William Wordsworth and his family.
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B.
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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C.
Kirk Bride Churchyard
Kirk Bride Churchyard is a small rural cemetery on the Isle of Man, best known as the final resting place of British comedian and actor Sir Norman Wisdom.
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D.
Southern Cemetery, Manchester
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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E.
Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, England
Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey, England is one of the largest Victorian cemeteries in the United Kingdom, known for its expansive landscaped grounds 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: St Mary’s Churchyard, Gisburn, Lancashire, England Target entity description: St Mary’s Churchyard in Gisburn, Lancashire, England is a historic rural church burial ground notable as the final resting place of American socialite Ava Lowle Willing, the first wife of John Jacob Astor IV.
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A.
St Oswald’s Churchyard
St Oswald’s Churchyard is the historic parish burial ground in Grasmere, Cumbria, best known as the resting place of poet William Wordsworth and his family.
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B.
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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C.
Kirk Bride Churchyard
Kirk Bride Churchyard is a small rural cemetery on the Isle of Man, best known as the final resting place of British comedian and actor Sir Norman Wisdom.
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D.
Southern Cemetery, Manchester
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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E.
Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, England
Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey, England is one of the largest Victorian cemeteries in the United Kingdom, known for its expansive landscaped grounds and notable burials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American businessman
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American millionaire ⓘ American socialite ⓘ cemetery ⓘ churchyard ⓘ |
| associatedWithBuilding | St Mary’s Church, Gisburn ⓘ |
| buriedIn | St Mary’s Churchyard, Gisburn, Lancashire, England self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| hasFunction | parish churchyard ⓘ |
| hasGravesFrom |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic burial ground ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gisburn
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Lancashire ⓘ North West England ⓘ Ribble Valley ⓘ |
| notableBurial | Ava Lowle Willing ⓘ |
| region | England ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| servesParish |
Gisburn
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surface form:
Gisburn parish
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| setting | rural area ⓘ |
| spouse | John Jacob Astor IV ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian burials
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burials ⓘ |
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 Mary’s Churchyard, Gisburn, Lancashire, England Description of subject: St Mary’s Churchyard in Gisburn, Lancashire, England is a historic rural church burial ground notable as the final resting place of American socialite Ava Lowle Willing, the first wife of John Jacob Astor IV.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St Mary’s Church, Gisburn
St Mary’s Churchyard, Gisburn, Lancashire, England
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buriedIn
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St Mary’s Churchyard, Gisburn, Lancashire, England
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Ava Lowle Willing