Alton National Cemetery
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Alton National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Alton, Illinois, serving as a burial ground for American military veterans and their eligible family members.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alton National Cemetery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4259836 — 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: Alton National Cemetery Context triple: [Alton, Illinois, hasLandmark, Alton National Cemetery]
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A.
Camp Butler National Cemetery
Camp Butler National Cemetery is a United States national military cemetery near Springfield, Illinois, that serves as a burial ground for American veterans and dates back to the Civil War era.
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B.
U.S. National Cemetery
A U.S. National Cemetery is a federally designated burial ground for members of the armed forces and eligible veterans, maintained by the U.S. government as part of the national system of military cemeteries.
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C.
Andrew Johnson National Cemetery
Andrew Johnson National Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Greeneville, Tennessee, that serves as the final resting place of the 17th U.S. president, Andrew Johnson, and is preserved as part of a national historic site.
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D.
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, named for and centered around the gravesite of 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor.
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E.
St. Augustine National Cemetery
St. Augustine National Cemetery is a historic United States military burial ground in St. Augustine, Florida, notable for interring soldiers from early 19th-century conflicts and later American wars.
- 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: Alton National Cemetery Target entity description: Alton National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Alton, Illinois, serving as a burial ground for American military veterans and their eligible family members.
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A.
Camp Butler National Cemetery
Camp Butler National Cemetery is a United States national military cemetery near Springfield, Illinois, that serves as a burial ground for American veterans and dates back to the Civil War era.
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B.
U.S. National Cemetery
A U.S. National Cemetery is a federally designated burial ground for members of the armed forces and eligible veterans, maintained by the U.S. government as part of the national system of military cemeteries.
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C.
Andrew Johnson National Cemetery
Andrew Johnson National Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Greeneville, Tennessee, that serves as the final resting place of the 17th U.S. president, Andrew Johnson, and is preserved as part of a national historic site.
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D.
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, named for and centered around the gravesite of 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor.
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E.
St. Augustine National Cemetery
St. Augustine National Cemetery is a historic United States military burial ground in St. Augustine, Florida, notable for interring soldiers from early 19th-century conflicts and later American wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States national cemetery ⓘ |
| alsoBurials | eligible family members of veterans ⓘ |
| cemeteryType |
federal cemetery
ⓘ
military veterans cemetery ⓘ |
| commemorates | members of the United States Armed Forces ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| governingBody | United States Department of Veterans Affairs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBurialRites | military honors (when eligible) ⓘ |
| hasEligibilityCriteria |
relationship to an eligible veteran
ⓘ
service in the United States Armed Forces ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commemorate military service
ⓘ
provide burial space for U.S. veterans ⓘ |
| hasGraveMarkers | government-furnished headstones ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | United States National Cemetery System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPublicCemetery | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alton, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
National Cemetery Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Department of Veterans Affairs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| ownedBy | United States Department of Veterans Affairs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | National Cemetery System (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryBurials | American military veterans ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Alton, Illinois area
ⓘ
Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| use |
military cemetery
ⓘ
veterans burial ground ⓘ |
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: Alton National Cemetery Description of subject: Alton National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Alton, Illinois, serving as a burial ground for American military veterans and their eligible family members.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.