the Tomb
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The Tomb is the windowless, sandstone clubhouse of Yale University's secret society Skull and Bones, renowned for its mysterious rituals and exclusivity.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skull and Bones Tomb | 5 |
| The Tomb | 2 |
| the Skull and Bones Tomb | 1 |
| the Tomb canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T866220 — 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: the Tomb Context triple: [Skull and Bones, hasHeadquarters, the Tomb]
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A.
Tomb of Pennut
The Tomb of Pennut is an ancient Egyptian rock-cut tomb in Nubia belonging to the official Pennut, notable for its well-preserved reliefs and relocation during the Nubian salvage campaigns.
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B.
Tomb Guard
The Tomb Guard is an elite ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment responsible for the continuous, highly disciplined watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
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C.
Tomb of Benei Hezir
The Tomb of Benei Hezir is an ancient rock-cut burial monument in Jerusalem, notable for its Hebrew inscription and association with a priestly family from the Second Temple period.
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D.
King’s Chamber
The King’s Chamber is the central granite burial chamber deep within the Great Pyramid of Giza, historically believed to have housed the pharaoh’s sarcophagus.
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E.
Sphinx Temple
Sphinx Temple is an ancient limestone temple complex located directly in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza, believed to have served a ritual or cultic function associated with the monument.
- 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: the Tomb Target entity description: The Tomb is the windowless, sandstone clubhouse of Yale University's secret society Skull and Bones, renowned for its mysterious rituals and exclusivity.
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A.
Tomb of Pennut
The Tomb of Pennut is an ancient Egyptian rock-cut tomb in Nubia belonging to the official Pennut, notable for its well-preserved reliefs and relocation during the Nubian salvage campaigns.
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B.
Tomb Guard
The Tomb Guard is an elite ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment responsible for the continuous, highly disciplined watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
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C.
Tomb of Benei Hezir
The Tomb of Benei Hezir is an ancient rock-cut burial monument in Jerusalem, notable for its Hebrew inscription and association with a priestly family from the Second Temple period.
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D.
King’s Chamber
The King’s Chamber is the central granite burial chamber deep within the Great Pyramid of Giza, historically believed to have housed the pharaoh’s sarcophagus.
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E.
Sphinx Temple
Sphinx Temple is an ancient limestone temple complex located directly in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza, believed to have served a ritual or cultic function associated with the monument.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
ⓘ
clubhouse ⓘ secret society clubhouse ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
Skull and Bones
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Egyptian Revival architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Yale secret societies
ⓘ
linked to:
Yale senior societies
undergraduate senior society traditions at Yale ⓘ |
| campus | Yale University campus ⓘ |
| city |
New Haven
ⓘ
linked to:
New Haven, Connecticut
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalRole |
iconic secret-society building at Yale
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subject of conspiracy theories ⓘ |
| function |
meeting place for Skull and Bones members
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ritual space for Skull and Bones ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
three-story structure
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windowless facade ⓘ |
| hasNickname |
the Skull and Bones Tomb
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linked to:
the Tomb
|
| hasReputation | symbol of Skull and Bones power and influence ⓘ |
| hasSecurity |
locked entrance
ⓘ
restricted access ⓘ |
| knownFor |
exclusivity
ⓘ
mysterious rituals ⓘ secrecy ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ |
| locatedOn | High Street ⓘ |
| material | sandstone ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Skull and Bones ⓘ |
| usedBy | Skull and Bones ⓘ |
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: the Tomb Description of subject: The Tomb is the windowless, sandstone clubhouse of Yale University's secret society Skull and Bones, renowned for its mysterious rituals and exclusivity.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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