St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States
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St. John Cemetery in Queens, New York City is a large Roman Catholic burial ground noted for being the final resting place of numerous prominent figures, including infamous mob boss Lucky Luciano.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1062909 — 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)
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Target entity: St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States Context triple: [Lucky Luciano, burialPlace, St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States]
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Flushing Cemetery, Queens, New York, United States
Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York, is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of notable figures including jazz legend Louis Armstrong.
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Calvary Cemetery, Queens
Calvary Cemetery in Queens is a large, historic Roman Catholic cemetery in New York City known for being the final resting place of many notable figures, including politicians, entertainers, and early immigrants.
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C.
Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, is a historic burial ground known for interring notable figures such as civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
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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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Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, is a historic, park-like burial ground renowned for its elaborate mausoleums, notable architecture, and many prominent American figures interred there.
- 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: St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States Target entity description: St. John Cemetery in Queens, New York City is a large Roman Catholic burial ground noted for being the final resting place of numerous prominent figures, including infamous mob boss Lucky Luciano.
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A.
Flushing Cemetery, Queens, New York, United States
Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York, is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of notable figures including jazz legend Louis Armstrong.
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B.
Calvary Cemetery, Queens
Calvary Cemetery in Queens is a large, historic Roman Catholic cemetery in New York City known for being the final resting place of many notable figures, including politicians, entertainers, and early immigrants.
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C.
Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, is a historic burial ground known for interring notable figures such as civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
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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.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, is a historic, park-like burial ground renowned for its elaborate mausoleums, notable architecture, and many prominent American figures interred there.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman Catholic cemetery
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cemetery ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn
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linked to:
Diocese of Brooklyn
|
| burialPlaceOf |
Carlo Gambino
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Charles "Lucky" Luciano ⓘ
linked to:
Lucky Luciano
Francis Spellman ⓘ Geraldine Ferraro ⓘ Hugh L. Carey ⓘ James A. Farley ⓘ James J. Walker ⓘ Joe Colombo ⓘ John Gotti ⓘ John J. O'Connor ⓘ
linked to:
John O'Connor
John O'Hara ⓘ Joseph P. Tumulty ⓘ Lucky Luciano ⓘ Mae West ⓘ Mario F. Cuomo ⓘ
linked to:
Mario Cuomo
Patrick J. Hayes ⓘ Shirley Chisholm ⓘ Thomas E. Dewey ⓘ Vincent R. Impellitteri ⓘ Vito Genovese ⓘ other notable New York political figures ⓘ other notable New York religious figures ⓘ other notable organized crime figures ⓘ |
| cemeteryType |
public cemetery
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religious cemetery ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| denomination |
Roman Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
Queens ⓘ |
| locatedInBorough | Queens ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | New York metropolitan area ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a major Roman Catholic burial ground in New York City
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being the final resting place of numerous prominent figures ⓘ large number of burials of New York politicians ⓘ large number of burials of Roman Catholic clergy ⓘ large number of burials of organized crime figures ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Catholic Cemeteries of the Diocese of Brooklyn ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn
ⓘ
linked to:
Diocese of Brooklyn
|
| regionServed |
Roman Catholic community of New York City
ⓘ
linked to:
Archdiocese of New York
|
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
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: St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States Description of subject: St. John Cemetery in Queens, New York City is a large Roman Catholic burial ground noted for being the final resting place of numerous prominent figures, including infamous mob boss Lucky Luciano.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States
John Gotti
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burialPlace
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St. John Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, New York City, United States
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linked to: St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States
linked to: St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States
Paul Castellano
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placeOfBurial
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Saint John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, New York, United States
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linked to: St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States
subject linked to:
Joseph
linked to: St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States