Battleground National Cemetery
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Battleground National Cemetery is a small U.S. national cemetery in Washington, D.C., established to honor Union soldiers who died defending the capital during the Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Battleground National Cemetery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7586375 — 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: Battleground National Cemetery Context triple: [Civil War Defenses of Washington, hasPart, Battleground National Cemetery]
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A.
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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B.
United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery
The United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery is a historic national military cemetery in Washington, D.C., serving as a burial ground for American service members and notable Civil War figures.
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C.
Fort Scott National Cemetery
Fort Scott National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in southeastern Kansas that serves as a burial ground for American military veterans and their eligible family members.
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D.
Alton National Cemetery
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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E.
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.
- 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: Battleground National Cemetery Target entity description: Battleground National Cemetery is a small U.S. national cemetery in Washington, D.C., established to honor Union soldiers who died defending the capital during the Civil War.
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A.
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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B.
United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery
The United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery is a historic national military cemetery in Washington, D.C., serving as a burial ground for American service members and notable Civil War figures.
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C.
Fort Scott National Cemetery
Fort Scott National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in southeastern Kansas that serves as a burial ground for American military veterans and their eligible family members.
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D.
Alton National Cemetery
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States national cemetery ⓘ |
| area | about 0.5 acre ⓘ |
| burialsMostlyFrom | Battle of Fort Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| commemorates | defense of Washington, D.C. in July 1864 ⓘ |
| commemoratesBattle | Battle of Fort Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| established | 1864 ⓘ |
| establishedBy | U.S. federal government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| establishedDuring | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| establishedToHonor |
Union soldiers
ⓘ
defenders of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Cemeteries in Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
Cemeteries of the American Civil War ⓘ Military cemeteries in the United States ⓘ United States national cemeteries ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central flagpole
ⓘ
headstones arranged in rows ⓘ perimeter stone wall or fence ⓘ stone monuments ⓘ |
| hasGraveType | Union Army soldiers ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriod | American Civil War era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfGraves | less than 100 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfInterments | about 40 Civil War soldiers ⓘ |
| hasSignificance | memorial to Union soldiers who died defending the U.S. capital ⓘ |
| hasUse |
commemorative ceremonies
ⓘ
historical tourism ⓘ |
| isOneOf | smallest national cemeteries in the United States ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brightwood, Washington, D.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
District of Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Washington, D.C. ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
site of the Battle of Fort Stevens ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Georgia Avenue NW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
National Cemetery Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Department of Veterans Affairs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | nearby Civil War battleground ⓘ |
| openTo | public ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
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| purpose |
memorial site
ⓘ
military burial ground ⓘ |
| region |
Mid-Atlantic states
ⓘ
surface form:
Mid-Atlantic United States
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| state | District of Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Battleground National Cemetery Description of subject: Battleground National Cemetery is a small U.S. national cemetery in Washington, D.C., established to honor Union soldiers who died defending the capital during the Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.