Salem Fields Cemetery
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Salem Fields Cemetery is a historic Jewish burial ground in Brooklyn, New York, known as the resting place of many prominent German-Jewish families, including members of the Guggenheim family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Salem Fields Cemetery canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2531774 — 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: Salem Fields Cemetery Context triple: [Solomon R. Guggenheim, burialPlace, Salem Fields Cemetery]
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A.
Campbell Cemetery
Campbell Cemetery is a local burial ground and historic landmark located in Bethany, West Virginia.
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B.
Woodward Hill Cemetery
Woodward Hill Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, known for being the final resting place of prominent figures including early American politician Frederick Muhlenberg.
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C.
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.
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D.
Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery
Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery is a small, historic, and notoriously haunted cemetery in Cook County, Illinois, famed for ghost stories and paranormal legends.
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E.
Grove Street Cemetery
Grove Street Cemetery is a historic 19th-century burial ground in New Haven, Connecticut, known as one of the first chartered cemetery associations in the United States and the resting place of many prominent Yale-affiliated figures.
- 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: Salem Fields Cemetery Target entity description: Salem Fields Cemetery is a historic Jewish burial ground in Brooklyn, New York, known as the resting place of many prominent German-Jewish families, including members of the Guggenheim family.
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A.
Campbell Cemetery
Campbell Cemetery is a local burial ground and historic landmark located in Bethany, West Virginia.
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B.
Woodward Hill Cemetery
Woodward Hill Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, known for being the final resting place of prominent figures including early American politician Frederick Muhlenberg.
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C.
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.
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D.
Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery
Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery is a small, historic, and notoriously haunted cemetery in Cook County, Illinois, famed for ghost stories and paranormal legends.
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E.
Grove Street Cemetery
Grove Street Cemetery is a historic 19th-century burial ground in New Haven, Connecticut, known as one of the first chartered cemetery associations in the United States and the resting place of many prominent Yale-affiliated figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish cemetery
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cemetery ⓘ historic site ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| foundedByCommunity |
Jewish Americans
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surface form:
German-Jewish community of New York
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| governedBy | Jewish cemetery association ⓘ |
| hasAccess | public ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalFeatures |
family plots
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landscaped grounds ⓘ mausoleums ⓘ monumental tombstones ⓘ |
| hasBurialTradition | Jewish burial customs ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
German-Jewish history in New York
ⓘ
Jewish heritage in Brooklyn ⓘ |
| hasDenomination | Reform Judaism ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfSignage |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurials |
German-Jewish community leaders
ⓘ
Guggenheim family ⓘ Jewish businessmen ⓘ Jewish philanthropists ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| heritage | German-Jewish ⓘ |
| isHistoric | true ⓘ |
| isTypeOfBurialGround | non-sectarian Jewish cemetery ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Borough of Brooklyn
ⓘ
Brooklyn ⓘ Kings County ⓘ
surface form:
Kings County, New York
New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | America/New_York ⓘ |
| near |
Cypress Hills neighborhood
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other historic Jewish cemeteries in Brooklyn ⓘ |
| notableFor |
burial place of members of the Guggenheim family
ⓘ
burial place of prominent German-Jewish families ⓘ |
| partOf |
Jewish cemeteries in Brooklyn
ⓘ
Jewish cemeteries in New York City ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Jewish funerary practices
ⓘ
burials ⓘ |
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: Salem Fields Cemetery Description of subject: Salem Fields Cemetery is a historic Jewish burial ground in Brooklyn, New York, known as the resting place of many prominent German-Jewish families, including members of the Guggenheim family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.