Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, United States
E174820
Sunset Memorial Park in Smithfield, North Carolina, is a cemetery best known as the final resting place of Hollywood actress Ava Gardner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1532962 — 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: Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, United States Context triple: [Ava Gardner, burialPlace, Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, United States]
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A.
Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina
Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including architect Henry Bacon, and its picturesque Victorian-era funerary art and landscaping.
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B.
Woodlawn Memorial Park, Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Woodlawn Memorial Park is a cemetery in Greenville, South Carolina, best known as the final resting place of legendary baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson.
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C.
Statesville, North Carolina
Statesville, North Carolina is a small historic city in the Piedmont region known for its transportation crossroads, furniture and textile heritage, and annual hot air balloon festivals.
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D.
Goldston, North Carolina
Goldston, North Carolina is a small rural town in Chatham County known for its agricultural roots and close-knit community.
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E.
Sanford, North Carolina
Sanford, North Carolina is a small city in central North Carolina known historically for brick manufacturing and as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
- 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: Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, United States Target entity description: Sunset Memorial Park in Smithfield, North Carolina, is a cemetery best known as the final resting place of Hollywood actress Ava Gardner.
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A.
Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina
Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including architect Henry Bacon, and its picturesque Victorian-era funerary art and landscaping.
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B.
Woodlawn Memorial Park, Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Woodlawn Memorial Park is a cemetery in Greenville, South Carolina, best known as the final resting place of legendary baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson.
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C.
Statesville, North Carolina
Statesville, North Carolina is a small historic city in the Piedmont region known for its transportation crossroads, furniture and textile heritage, and annual hot air balloon festivals.
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D.
Goldston, North Carolina
Goldston, North Carolina is a small rural town in Chatham County known for its agricultural roots and close-knit community.
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E.
Sanford, North Carolina
Sanford, North Carolina is a small city in central North Carolina known historically for brick manufacturing and as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | cemetery ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasCoordinateRegion | Eastern North Carolina ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
local historical interest site
ⓘ
tourist site for Ava Gardner fans ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
grave markers
ⓘ
memorial monuments ⓘ |
| hasGraveType | in-ground burial plots ⓘ |
| hasNotabilityReason | final resting place of Ava Gardner ⓘ |
| hasReligiousContext | primarily Christian burials ⓘ |
| hasUse |
burial ground
ⓘ
memorial park ⓘ |
| isPartOf | local funeral and burial services of Smithfield ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Smithfield, North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Johnston County, North Carolina
ⓘ
North Carolina ⓘ |
| namedAfter | sunset (time of day) ⓘ |
| notableBurial | Ava Gardner ⓘ |
| servesCommunity |
Johnston County, North Carolina
ⓘ
Smithfield, North Carolina ⓘ |
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: Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, United States Description of subject: Sunset Memorial Park in Smithfield, North Carolina, is a cemetery best known as the final resting place of Hollywood actress Ava Gardner.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.