Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is a major Roman Catholic burial ground in Colma, California, known for serving the San Francisco Bay Area’s Catholic community.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery canonical | 3 |
| Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma | 1 |
| Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma Mausoleum | 1 |
| Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Menlo Park | 1 |
| Holy Cross Cemetery | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T885809 — 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: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Context triple: [Colma, hasCemetery, Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery]
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A.
Homewood Cemetery
Homewood Cemetery is a historic, landscaped burial ground in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known as the resting place of many prominent industrialists, politicians, and cultural figures.
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B.
Forest Home Cemetery
Forest Home Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Forest Park, Illinois, known for its association with labor history and as the resting place of several prominent radicals and reformers.
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C.
Youngs Memorial Cemetery
Youngs Memorial Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Oyster Bay, New York, best known as the final resting place of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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D.
Westchester Hills Cemetery
Westchester Hills Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, known as the final resting place of several notable figures, including actor John Garfield.
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E.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Sleepy Hollow, New York, famed for its association with author Washington Irving and his classic tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- 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: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Target entity description: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is a major Roman Catholic burial ground in Colma, California, known for serving the San Francisco Bay Area’s Catholic community.
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A.
Homewood Cemetery
Homewood Cemetery is a historic, landscaped burial ground in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known as the resting place of many prominent industrialists, politicians, and cultural figures.
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B.
Forest Home Cemetery
Forest Home Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Forest Park, Illinois, known for its association with labor history and as the resting place of several prominent radicals and reformers.
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C.
Youngs Memorial Cemetery
Youngs Memorial Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Oyster Bay, New York, best known as the final resting place of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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D.
Westchester Hills Cemetery
Westchester Hills Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, known as the final resting place of several notable figures, including actor John Garfield.
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E.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Sleepy Hollow, New York, famed for its association with author Washington Irving and his classic tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic cemetery
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burial ground ⓘ cemetery ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county |
San Mateo County
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linked to:
San Mateo County, California
|
| follows | Roman Catholic burial rites ⓘ |
| hasAccess | public during visiting hours ⓘ |
| hasBurialPolicy | primarily for Roman Catholics and their families ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Catholic funerary traditions in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| hasDenomination |
Roman Catholic
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| hasEnvironment | urban fringe ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Catholic religious monuments
ⓘ
chapel ⓘ mausoleums ⓘ memorial gardens ⓘ |
| hasGraveMarkers |
flat markers
ⓘ
headstones ⓘ monuments ⓘ |
| hasGraveType |
columbarium niches
ⓘ
in-ground burials ⓘ mausoleum entombments ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
Christian burial
ⓘ
memorialization of the dead ⓘ |
| hasRegulation |
subject to California cemetery law
ⓘ
subject to Roman Catholic canon law on burial ⓘ |
| hasType | nonprofit cemetery ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Colma, California ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | San Francisco, California ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a major Catholic burial ground in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco
ⓘ
linked to:
Archdiocese of San Francisco
|
| ownedBy |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco
ⓘ
linked to:
Archdiocese of San Francisco
|
| partOf | Colma necropolis ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Roman Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| serves |
Archdiocese of San Francisco
ⓘ
San Francisco Bay Area Catholic community ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| zoning | cemetery use ⓘ |
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: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Description of subject: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is a major Roman Catholic burial ground in Colma, California, known for serving the San Francisco Bay Area’s Catholic community.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
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operatesCemetery
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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma
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linked to: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
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operatesCemetery
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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Menlo Park
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linked to: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
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operatesCemetery
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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma Mausoleum
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linked to: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery