Brookwood Cemetery
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Brookwood Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in the United Kingdom, a vast Victorian-era burial ground in Surrey known for its historic graves and landscaped grounds.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brookwood Cemetery canonical | 37 |
| Brookwood Cemetery Company | 1 |
| Brookwood Cemetery complex | 1 |
| Brookwood Necropolis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T997545 — 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: Brookwood Cemetery Context triple: [Trafford Leigh-Mallory, burialPlace, Brookwood Cemetery]
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A.
Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic burial ground recognized for its significant funerary art, notable interments, and inclusion within the Woodlawn Cemetery and Woodlawn National Cemetery Historic District.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Pet’s Rest Cemetery
Pet’s Rest Cemetery is a dedicated burial ground for companion animals located in the town of Colma, California.
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E.
Grove Street Cemetery
Grove Street Cemetery is a historic 19th-century burial ground in New Haven, Connecticut, known as one of the first chartered cemetery associations in the United States and the resting place of many prominent Yale-affiliated 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: Brookwood Cemetery Target entity description: Brookwood Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in the United Kingdom, a vast Victorian-era burial ground in Surrey known for its historic graves and landscaped grounds.
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A.
Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic burial ground recognized for its significant funerary art, notable interments, and inclusion within the Woodlawn Cemetery and Woodlawn National Cemetery Historic District.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Pet’s Rest Cemetery
Pet’s Rest Cemetery is a dedicated burial ground for companion animals located in the town of Colma, California.
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E.
Grove Street Cemetery
Grove Street Cemetery is a historic 19th-century burial ground in New Haven, Connecticut, known as one of the first chartered cemetery associations in the United States and the resting place of many prominent Yale-affiliated figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Victorian cemetery
ⓘ
burial ground ⓘ cemetery ⓘ |
| containsGraveOf |
Charles Bradlaugh
ⓘ
Dame Rebecca West ⓘ John Singer Sargent ⓘ Sultan of Zanzibar Khalid bin Barghash ⓘ civilian victims of World War II ⓘ numerous Commonwealth war dead ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designedAs | landscaped cemetery ⓘ |
| formerlyOwnedBy |
London Necropolis Company
ⓘ
linked to:
London Necropolis
|
| governedBy |
Brookwood Cemetery Act 1975
ⓘ
linked to:
Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, England
|
| hasArea |
about 200 hectares
ⓘ
about 500 acres ⓘ |
| hasPart |
American Military Cemetery at Brookwood
ⓘ
linked to:
Brookwood American Cemetery
Anglican burial sections ⓘ Brookwood Military Cemetery ⓘ Catholic burial sections ⓘ Commonwealth War Graves plots ⓘ
linked to:
Commonwealth War Graves sections
Muslim burial areas ⓘ Nonconformist burial sections ⓘ Zoroastrian burial area ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
North Cemetery
ⓘ
South Cemetery ⓘ mausoleums ⓘ memorials ⓘ various chapels ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.brookwoodcemetery.com/ ⓘ |
| heritageRegister | Register of Historic Parks and Gardens ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Grade I registered park and garden ⓘ |
| historicallyServedBy | London Necropolis Railway ⓘ |
| inception | 1852 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Borough of Woking
ⓘ
linked to:
Woking
England ⓘ Surrey ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Brookwood
ⓘ
Woking ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Victorian funerary architecture
ⓘ
being one of the largest cemeteries in the United Kingdom ⓘ historic graves ⓘ woodland and landscaped grounds ⓘ |
| opened | 1854 ⓘ |
| originalPurpose | to provide burial space for London ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Woking Borough Council ⓘ |
| servedBy | Brookwood railway station ⓘ |
| tourismType | heritage tourism site ⓘ |
| usedFor |
burials
ⓘ
cremation memorials ⓘ remembrance 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: Brookwood Cemetery Description of subject: Brookwood Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in the United Kingdom, a vast Victorian-era burial ground in Surrey known for its historic graves and landscaped grounds.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Air Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory
subject linked to:
John
subject linked to:
Brookwood
linked to: Brookwood Cemetery
linked to: Brookwood Cemetery
subject linked to:
Italian Military Cemetery
subject linked to:
WOKING
linked to: Brookwood Cemetery