Waimate Lawn Cemetery, Waimate, New Zealand
E26967
Waimate Lawn Cemetery in Waimate, New Zealand, is a public cemetery best known as the final resting place of former Prime Minister Norman Kirk.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Waimate Lawn Cemetery, Waimate, New Zealand canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T211645 — 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: Waimate Lawn Cemetery, Waimate, New Zealand Context triple: [Norman Kirk, burialPlace, Waimate Lawn Cemetery, Waimate, New Zealand]
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A.
Mount Kenton Cemetery
Mount Kenton Cemetery is a burial ground in Paducah, Kentucky, best known as the final resting place of former U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley.
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B.
West Norwood Cemetery, London
West Norwood Cemetery in London is a historic Victorian garden cemetery and one of the "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, noted for its notable burials, elaborate monuments, and architectural heritage.
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C.
Homewood Cemetery
Homewood Cemetery is a historic, landscaped burial ground in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known as the resting place of many prominent industrialists, politicians, and cultural figures.
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D.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York, United States
Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of author Mark Twain and members of his family.
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E.
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Oak Ridge Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, best known as the final resting place of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his family.
- 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: Waimate Lawn Cemetery, Waimate, New Zealand Target entity description: Waimate Lawn Cemetery in Waimate, New Zealand, is a public cemetery best known as the final resting place of former Prime Minister Norman Kirk.
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A.
Mount Kenton Cemetery
Mount Kenton Cemetery is a burial ground in Paducah, Kentucky, best known as the final resting place of former U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley.
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B.
West Norwood Cemetery, London
West Norwood Cemetery in London is a historic Victorian garden cemetery and one of the "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, noted for its notable burials, elaborate monuments, and architectural heritage.
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C.
Homewood Cemetery
Homewood Cemetery is a historic, landscaped burial ground in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known as the resting place of many prominent industrialists, politicians, and cultural figures.
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D.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York, United States
Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of author Mark Twain and members of his family.
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E.
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Oak Ridge Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, best known as the final resting place of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
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human ⓘ public cemetery ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Waimate District Council ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| hasGraveOf | Norman Kirk ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial | Norman Kirk ⓘ |
| hasType | lawn cemetery ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canterbury Region
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Waimate ⓘ Waimate District ⓘ |
| locatedOn | South Island ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the burial place of former New Zealand Prime Minister Norman Kirk ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Waimate Lawn Cemetery, Waimate, New Zealand self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Prime Minister of New Zealand ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| region | Canterbury ⓘ |
| usedFor |
burials
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interment of human remains ⓘ |
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: Waimate Lawn Cemetery, Waimate, New Zealand Description of subject: Waimate Lawn Cemetery in Waimate, New Zealand, is a public cemetery best known as the final resting place of former Prime Minister Norman Kirk.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Waimate Lawn Cemetery, Waimate, New Zealand
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placeOfBurial
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Waimate Lawn Cemetery, Waimate, New Zealand
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Norman Kirk