Arlington House plantation

E16704

historic estate plantation

Arlington House plantation was a historic Virginia estate overlooking the Potomac River that later became the core of what is now Arlington National Cemetery.

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All labels observed (13)

Label	Occurrences
Arlington House	23
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial	15
Arlington estate	7
Arlington House, Virginia	6
Arlington House plantation canonical	3
Arlington House grounds	2
Arlington, the ancestral home of the Custis family in Virginia	1
Belvoir plantation	1
Custis-Lee Mansion	1
Custis-Lee estate	1
Parke Custis	1
Robert E. Lee Memorial (Arlington House)	1
Robert E. Lee residences	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T142157 — 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: Arlington House plantation
Context triple: [Arlington National Cemetery, formerLandOf, Arlington House plantation]

A. Mount Vernon, Virginia
Mount Vernon, Virginia is a historic estate along the Potomac River best known as George Washington’s longtime plantation home and burial site.
B. Griswold Hall
Griswold Hall is an academic and administrative building at Harvard Law School that houses faculty offices, classrooms, and legal research facilities.
C. Carlyle House Historic Park
Carlyle House Historic Park is a preserved 18th-century Georgian mansion and museum in Old Town Alexandria that interprets colonial life and early American history.
D. Betsy Ross House
The Betsy Ross House is a historic museum in Philadelphia traditionally regarded as the home of Betsy Ross, who is credited with sewing one of the first American flags.
E. Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Appomattox Court House, Virginia is a historic village best known as the site where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
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: Arlington House plantation
Target entity description: Arlington House plantation was a historic Virginia estate overlooking the Potomac River that later became the core of what is now Arlington National Cemetery.

A. Mount Vernon, Virginia
Mount Vernon, Virginia is a historic estate along the Potomac River best known as George Washington’s longtime plantation home and burial site.
B. Griswold Hall
Griswold Hall is an academic and administrative building at Harvard Law School that houses faculty offices, classrooms, and legal research facilities.
C. Carlyle House Historic Park
Carlyle House Historic Park is a preserved 18th-century Georgian mansion and museum in Old Town Alexandria that interprets colonial life and early American history.
D. Betsy Ross House
The Betsy Ross House is a historic museum in Philadelphia traditionally regarded as the home of Betsy Ross, who is credited with sewing one of the first American flags.
E. Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Appomattox Court House, Virginia is a historic village best known as the site where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (32)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historic estate ⓘ plantation ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Arlington Estate ⓘ Custis-Lee estate ⓘ linked to: Arlington House plantation
associatedWith	Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee ⓘ linked to: Mary Anna Custis Lee Robert E. Lee ⓘ
confiscatedBy	United States federal government ⓘ linked to: United States government
confiscationContext	American Civil War ⓘ
coreOf	Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
forms	historic core of Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ
hasPart	Arlington House ⓘ linked to: Arlington House plantation
heritageDesignation	part of a U.S. National Cemetery ⓘ
historicalFunction	agricultural estate ⓘ slave plantation ⓘ
laterUse	military cemetery ⓘ national cemetery ⓘ
locatedIn	Arlington County, Virginia ⓘ linked to: Arlington, Virginia
locatedNear	Potomac River ⓘ
locatedOpposite	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
namedAfter	Arlington House ⓘ linked to: Arlington House plantation
originallyOwnedBy	George Washington Parke Custis ⓘ
overlooks	Potomac River ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ
partOf	Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ
region	Northern Virginia ⓘ
significantFor	Civil War history ⓘ connection to George Washington’s family ⓘ connection to Robert E. Lee ⓘ history of slavery in Virginia ⓘ
usedFor	agriculture ⓘ residential purposes ⓘ

How these facts were elicited