St. Symphorien Military Cemetery
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St. Symphorien Military Cemetery is a First World War burial ground near Mons, Belgium, notable for commemorating both German and British soldiers, including some of the first and last Commonwealth casualties of the war.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St. Symphorien Military Cemetery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4261155 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Symphorien Military Cemetery Context triple: [Battle of Mons, hasMemorial, St. Symphorien Military Cemetery]
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Douaumont military cemetery
Douaumont military cemetery is a major World War I burial ground near Verdun in northeastern France, commemorating tens of thousands of French soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun.
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B.
Ors Communal Cemetery
Ors Communal Cemetery is a military and civilian burial ground in Ors, northern France, best known as the final resting place of renowned World War I poet Wilfred Owen.
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Templeux-le-Guérard British Cemetery
Templeux-le-Guérard British Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in northern France where soldiers of World War I, including British politician and officer Valentine Fleming, are buried.
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D.
Heverlee War Cemetery
Heverlee War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission military cemetery in Heverlee, Belgium, where many Allied soldiers who died in World War II are buried.
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E.
Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery
Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery is a First World War military burial ground in northern France where British Commonwealth and French soldiers who fell on the Somme are interred side by side as a symbol of shared sacrifice.
- 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. Symphorien Military Cemetery Target entity description: St. Symphorien Military Cemetery is a First World War burial ground near Mons, Belgium, notable for commemorating both German and British soldiers, including some of the first and last Commonwealth casualties of the war.
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A.
Douaumont military cemetery
Douaumont military cemetery is a major World War I burial ground near Verdun in northeastern France, commemorating tens of thousands of French soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun.
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B.
Ors Communal Cemetery
Ors Communal Cemetery is a military and civilian burial ground in Ors, northern France, best known as the final resting place of renowned World War I poet Wilfred Owen.
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C.
Templeux-le-Guérard British Cemetery
Templeux-le-Guérard British Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in northern France where soldiers of World War I, including British politician and officer Valentine Fleming, are buried.
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D.
Heverlee War Cemetery
Heverlee War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission military cemetery in Heverlee, Belgium, where many Allied soldiers who died in World War II are buried.
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E.
Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery
Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery is a First World War military burial ground in northern France where British Commonwealth and French soldiers who fell on the Somme are interred side by side as a symbol of shared sacrifice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War I cemetery
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military cemetery ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Saint Symphorien Military Cemetery
NERFINISHED
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St Symphorien Military Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialOf |
British soldiers
ⓘ
Commonwealth soldiers ⓘ German soldiers ⓘ |
| conflictCommemorated |
First World War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsGraveOf |
George Edwin Ellison
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Lawrence Price NERFINISHED ⓘ John Parr NERFINISHED ⓘ Maurice James Dease NERFINISHED ⓘ Oskar Niemeyer (German soldier) NERFINISHED ⓘ unknown soldiers ⓘ |
| country | Belgium ⓘ |
| designedAs | landscaped garden cemetery ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasBurialsFromCountry |
Belgium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommemoration |
Commonwealth war dead
ⓘ
German war dead ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Cross of Sacrifice
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
German memorials ⓘ central stone obelisk ⓘ mixed German and Commonwealth headstones ⓘ terraced layout ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOnHeadstones |
English
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French ⓘ German ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfBurials | over 500 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hainaut Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Commonwealth War Graves Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearBattle | Battle of Mons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
containing graves of both German and British soldiers
ⓘ
containing some of the first Commonwealth casualties of World War I ⓘ containing some of the last Commonwealth casualties of World War I ⓘ |
| originallyEstablishedBy | German Imperial Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPurpose | German military cemetery ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Belgian state NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Wallonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance | symbol of reconciliation between former enemies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
military burials
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war commemoration ⓘ |
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: St. Symphorien Military Cemetery Description of subject: St. Symphorien Military Cemetery is a First World War burial ground near Mons, Belgium, notable for commemorating both German and British soldiers, including some of the first and last Commonwealth casualties of the war.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.