Metairie Cemetery
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Metairie Cemetery is a historic and ornate burial ground in New Orleans, Louisiana, known for its elaborate above-ground tombs and as the resting place of many notable figures including Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metairie Cemetery canonical | 3 |
| Metairie Cemetery Association | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2884707 — 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: Metairie Cemetery Context triple: [P. G. T. Beauregard, burialPlace, Metairie Cemetery]
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A.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is a historic 19th-century above-ground cemetery in New Orleans known for its ornate tombs and atmospheric setting.
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B.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans is the city’s oldest and most famous above-ground cemetery, renowned for its historic tombs and notable burials.
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C.
Hollywood Cemetery
Hollywood Cemetery is a historic 19th-century cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, known for its elaborate monuments and as the burial site of U.S. presidents and Confederate leaders.
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D.
Bellefontaine Cemetery
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a historic, garden-style cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, known as the resting place of many prominent political, military, and cultural figures.
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E.
Frankfort Cemetery
Frankfort Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Frankfort, Kentucky, known as the resting place of many prominent state and national political and military 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: Metairie Cemetery Target entity description: Metairie Cemetery is a historic and ornate burial ground in New Orleans, Louisiana, known for its elaborate above-ground tombs and as the resting place of many notable figures including Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard.
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A.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is a historic 19th-century above-ground cemetery in New Orleans known for its ornate tombs and atmospheric setting.
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B.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans is the city’s oldest and most famous above-ground cemetery, renowned for its historic tombs and notable burials.
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C.
Hollywood Cemetery
Hollywood Cemetery is a historic 19th-century cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, known for its elaborate monuments and as the burial site of U.S. presidents and Confederate leaders.
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D.
Bellefontaine Cemetery
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a historic, garden-style cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, known as the resting place of many prominent political, military, and cultural figures.
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E.
Frankfort Cemetery
Frankfort Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Frankfort, Kentucky, known as the resting place of many prominent state and national political and military figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
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historic cemetery ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dateAddedToNRHP | 1994-05-19 ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts
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Classical Revival ⓘ Egyptian Revival ⓘ Gothic Revival ⓘ |
| hasArea | approximately 150 acres ⓘ |
| hasBurial |
Al Copeland
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Confederate veterans ⓘ E. J. Ourso ⓘ Jefferson Davis ⓘ John Fitzpatrick ⓘ Leah Chase ⓘ Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard ⓘ
surface form:
P. G. T. Beauregard
Tom Benson ⓘ business leaders from New Orleans ⓘ multiple New Orleans mayors ⓘ prominent Louisiana politicians ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid subtropical ⓘ |
| hasConstructionMaterial |
granite
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limestone ⓘ marble ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateRegion | Southern United States ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
example of New Orleans above-ground burial tradition
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site of notable Louisiana burials ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
above-ground tombs
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curving roadways ⓘ family tombs ⓘ funeral chapel ⓘ funerary sculptures ⓘ lakes and lagoons ⓘ mausoleums ⓘ office building ⓘ ornamental landscaping ⓘ veterans sections ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeType | garden cemetery ⓘ |
| hasNRHPReferenceNumber | 94000423 ⓘ |
| hasRegulation |
monument guidelines
ⓘ
visiting hours ⓘ |
| hasReligiousAffiliation | primarily non-sectarian ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Confederate veterans section
ⓘ
family plots ⓘ mausoleum complexes ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Register of Historic Places
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surface form:
National Register of Historic Places listing
|
| isAccessibleBy |
automobile
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public transportation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
elaborate above-ground tombs
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historic burial ground ⓘ ornate funerary architecture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Louisiana
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Metairie Ridge ⓘ New Orleans ⓘ Orleans Parish ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
City Park New Orleans
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surface form:
City Park, New Orleans
Interstate 10 ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Metairie Road ⓘ |
| NRHPType | historic district ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Metairie Cemetery
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Metairie Cemetery Association
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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: Metairie Cemetery Description of subject: Metairie Cemetery is a historic and ornate burial ground in New Orleans, Louisiana, known for its elaborate above-ground tombs and as the resting place of many notable figures including Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
P. G. T. Beauregard
this entity surface form:
Metairie Cemetery Association