Masonic Cemetery, Metropolis, Illinois, United States
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Masonic Cemetery in Metropolis, Illinois, is a burial ground best known as the final resting place of Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Masonic Cemetery, Metropolis, Illinois, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T773417 — 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: Masonic Cemetery, Metropolis, Illinois, United States Context triple: [Robert Stroud, burialPlace, Masonic Cemetery, Metropolis, Illinois, United States]
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A.
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its notable burials, landscaped grounds, and significant funerary art and architecture.
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B.
Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois is a historic burial ground known for its strong ties to labor history and radical politics, including serving as the resting place of several prominent figures associated with the Haymarket affair.
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C.
Roselawn Cemetery, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Roselawn Cemetery in Champaign, Illinois, is a local burial ground notable as the final resting place of Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Bardeen.
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D.
Woodlawn, Chicago
Woodlawn, Chicago is a predominantly residential neighborhood on the South Side known for its historic significance, proximity to the University of Chicago, and the future site of the Obama Presidential Center.
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E.
Inglewood Park Cemetery
Inglewood Park Cemetery is a large historic cemetery in Inglewood, California, known as the final resting place for numerous notable political figures, entertainers, and community leaders.
- 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: Masonic Cemetery, Metropolis, Illinois, United States Target entity description: Masonic Cemetery in Metropolis, Illinois, is a burial ground best known as the final resting place of Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz."
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A.
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its notable burials, landscaped grounds, and significant funerary art and architecture.
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B.
Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois is a historic burial ground known for its strong ties to labor history and radical politics, including serving as the resting place of several prominent figures associated with the Haymarket affair.
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C.
Roselawn Cemetery, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Roselawn Cemetery in Champaign, Illinois, is a local burial ground notable as the final resting place of Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Bardeen.
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D.
Woodlawn, Chicago
Woodlawn, Chicago is a predominantly residential neighborhood on the South Side known for its historic significance, proximity to the University of Chicago, and the future site of the Obama Presidential Center.
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E.
Inglewood Park Cemetery
Inglewood Park Cemetery is a large historic cemetery in Inglewood, California, known as the final resting place for numerous notable political figures, entertainers, and community leaders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
burial ground
ⓘ
cemetery ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Freemasons ⓘ |
| burialPlaceOf |
Birdman of Alcatraz
ⓘ
Robert Stroud ⓘ |
| cemeteryType | public cemetery ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 37.151°N 88.732°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAccess | road access ⓘ |
| hasGraveType |
family plots
ⓘ
individual graves ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfSignage | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial |
Birdman of Alcatraz
ⓘ
Robert Stroud ⓘ |
| heritageType | local cemetery ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Metropolis, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Illinois
ⓘ
Massac County, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Ohio River
ⓘ
downtown Metropolis, Illinois ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Freemasons
ⓘ
surface form:
Freemasonry
|
| notableFor | being the burial place of Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz" ⓘ |
| region |
southern Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Illinois
|
| religiousAffiliation | non-denominational ⓘ |
| servesCommunity | Metropolis, Illinois ⓘ |
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: Masonic Cemetery, Metropolis, Illinois, United States Description of subject: Masonic Cemetery in Metropolis, Illinois, is a burial ground best known as the final resting place of Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.