Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, North Carolina
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Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, North Carolina is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent local figures, including tobacco magnate and philanthropist Washington Duke.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, North Carolina canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10799140 — 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: Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, North Carolina Context triple: [Washington Duke, burialPlace, Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, North Carolina]
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Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known for its notable interments, including prominent political figures and local leaders.
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Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Salem Cemetery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known as the final resting place of tobacco magnate and philanthropist Richard Joshua Reynolds and other prominent local figures.
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Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina
Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including architect Henry Bacon, and its picturesque Victorian-era funerary art and landscaping.
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Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known, among other things, as the final resting place of actor Sidney Blackmer.
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Fayetteville Cemetery
Fayetteville Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Fayetteville, New York, notable as the final resting place of Richard Falley Cleveland, father of U.S. President Grover Cleveland.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, North Carolina Target entity description: Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, North Carolina is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent local figures, including tobacco magnate and philanthropist Washington Duke.
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A.
Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known for its notable interments, including prominent political figures and local leaders.
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B.
Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Salem Cemetery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known as the final resting place of tobacco magnate and philanthropist Richard Joshua Reynolds and other prominent local figures.
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C.
Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina
Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including architect Henry Bacon, and its picturesque Victorian-era funerary art and landscaping.
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D.
Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known, among other things, as the final resting place of actor Sidney Blackmer.
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E.
Fayetteville Cemetery
Fayetteville Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Fayetteville, New York, notable as the final resting place of Richard Falley Cleveland, father of U.S. President Grover Cleveland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | cemetery ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAccess | open to the public ⓘ |
| hasAssociationWithIndustry | tobacco industry of Durham ⓘ |
| hasAssociationWithPhilanthropy | Duke family philanthropy ⓘ |
| hasBurialType | inhumation ⓘ |
| hasCity | Durham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoordinates | 36.000°N 78.920°W ⓘ |
| hasCounty | Durham County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
important site in Durham local history
ⓘ
resting place of Durham tobacco magnates ⓘ |
| hasFunction | commemoration of local historical figures ⓘ |
| hasGraveOf |
Washington Duke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
members of the Duke family ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEraOfDevelopment | late 19th century ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeFeature |
family plots
ⓘ
monumental grave markers ⓘ tree-lined drives ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCityFeature | Downtown Durham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyInstitution | Duke University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial |
Annie Hill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Benjamin Newton Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ Brodie Leonidas Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ George Washington Watts NERFINISHED ⓘ James Buchanan Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ John Sprunt Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Julian Shakespeare Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Duke Biddle NERFINISHED ⓘ Other prominent Durham industrialists ⓘ Richard Harvey Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ William T. Blackwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryReligion | predominantly Christian burials ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Piedmont region of North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasState | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUse | public burial ground ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic cemetery of Durham ⓘ |
| inception | 1870s ⓘ |
| isPartOf | historic resources of Durham ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Durham, North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Durham County, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| operator | City of Durham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | City of Durham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, North Carolina Description of subject: Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, North Carolina is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent local figures, including tobacco magnate and philanthropist Washington Duke.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.