Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, Montreal, Canada
E109026
Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery in Montreal, Canada is a Jewish burial ground best known internationally as the final resting place of singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, Montreal, Canada canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T922714 — 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: Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, Montreal, Canada Context triple: [Leonard Cohen, burialPlace, Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, Montreal, Canada]
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A.
Trumpeldor Cemetery
Trumpeldor Cemetery is a historic Jewish burial ground in central Tel Aviv, Israel, known as the resting place of many prominent Zionist leaders, writers, and cultural figures.
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B.
St. James' Cemetery, Toronto
St. James' Cemetery in Toronto is one of the city's oldest and most historic burial grounds, known for its notable interments and picturesque, park-like setting.
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C.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto is a historic, park-like burial ground known for its notable interments, landscaped grounds, and role as one of the city's major green spaces.
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D.
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens
Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens is a historic Jewish burial ground in New York City known for being the resting place of many prominent figures, including Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem.
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E.
Montparnasse Cemetery
Montparnasse Cemetery is a major Parisian burial ground known for being the resting place of many notable artists, writers, and public figures.
- 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: Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, Montreal, Canada Target entity description: Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery in Montreal, Canada is a Jewish burial ground best known internationally as the final resting place of singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen.
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A.
Trumpeldor Cemetery
Trumpeldor Cemetery is a historic Jewish burial ground in central Tel Aviv, Israel, known as the resting place of many prominent Zionist leaders, writers, and cultural figures.
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B.
St. James' Cemetery, Toronto
St. James' Cemetery in Toronto is one of the city's oldest and most historic burial grounds, known for its notable interments and picturesque, park-like setting.
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C.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto is a historic, park-like burial ground known for its notable interments, landscaped grounds, and role as one of the city's major green spaces.
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D.
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens
Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens is a historic Jewish burial ground in New York City known for being the resting place of many prominent figures, including Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem.
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E.
Montparnasse Cemetery
Montparnasse Cemetery is a major Parisian burial ground known for being the resting place of many notable artists, writers, and public figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish cemetery
ⓘ
cemetery ⓘ |
| associatedReligion | Orthodox Judaism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim synagogue
ⓘ
linked to:
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
|
| burialPlaceOf |
Jewish residents of Montreal
ⓘ
Leonard Cohen ⓘ members of the Shaar Hashomayim congregation ⓘ |
| cemeteryType | denominational cemetery ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | site of pilgrimage for Leonard Cohen admirers ⓘ |
| hasGraveMarkerLanguage |
English inscriptions
ⓘ
Hebrew inscriptions ⓘ |
| hasGraveMarkerType | headstones ⓘ |
| hasGraveType |
family plots
ⓘ
individual graves ⓘ |
| heritageType | Jewish heritage site ⓘ |
| languageOfSignage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Montreal
ⓘ
Quebec ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
|
| notableBurial | Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the burial place of Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Congregation Shaar Hashomayim ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Congregation Shaar Hashomayim ⓘ |
| region | Island of Montreal ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Jewish community of Montreal
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| usedFor | Jewish burial and memorial services ⓘ |
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: Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, Montreal, Canada Description of subject: Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery in Montreal, Canada is a Jewish burial ground best known internationally as the final resting place of singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.