Monticello cemetery
E19771
Monticello cemetery is the historic family burial ground at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate near Charlottesville, Virginia, where Jefferson and many of his relatives are interred.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Monticello cemetery canonical | 6 |
| Monticello Cemetery | 3 |
| Monticello family cemetery | 3 |
| Jefferson family cemetery at Monticello | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T89795 — 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: Monticello cemetery Context triple: [Thomas Jefferson, buriedAt, Monticello cemetery]
-
A.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Sleepy Hollow, New York, famed for its association with author Washington Irving and his classic tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
-
B.
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.
-
C.
Princeton Cemetery
Princeton Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Princeton, New Jersey, known as the resting place of numerous prominent American figures, including presidents, scholars, and local dignitaries.
-
D.
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic garden cemetery and arboretum renowned as one of the first rural cemeteries in the United States and a significant cultural and natural landmark.
-
E.
Old Burying Point Cemetery
Old Burying Point Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in the United States, located in Salem, Massachusetts, and is notable for its 17th-century graves and ties to early colonial and witch trial history.
- 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: Monticello cemetery Target entity description: Monticello cemetery is the historic family burial ground at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate near Charlottesville, Virginia, where Jefferson and many of his relatives are interred.
-
A.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Sleepy Hollow, New York, famed for its association with author Washington Irving and his classic tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
-
B.
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.
-
C.
Princeton Cemetery
Princeton Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Princeton, New Jersey, known as the resting place of numerous prominent American figures, including presidents, scholars, and local dignitaries.
-
D.
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic garden cemetery and arboretum renowned as one of the first rural cemeteries in the United States and a significant cultural and natural landmark.
-
E.
Old Burying Point Cemetery
Old Burying Point Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in the United States, located in Salem, Massachusetts, and is notable for its 17th-century graves and ties to early colonial and witch trial history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
ⓘ
family burial ground ⓘ historic site ⓘ |
| accessPolicy | open to the public during visiting hours ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Monticello house
ⓘ
linked to:
Monticello
|
| associatedWith |
Monticello (plantation)
ⓘ
Monticello Association ⓘ Thomas Jefferson ⓘ |
| burialPlaceOf |
Jane Randolph Jefferson
ⓘ
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson ⓘ Mary Jefferson Eppes ⓘ Thomas Jefferson ⓘ descendants of Thomas Jefferson ⓘ members of the Jefferson family ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 38.009°N 78.452°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| establishedFor | Jefferson family burials ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
family plots
ⓘ
gate ⓘ walled enclosure ⓘ |
| hasGravestone | Thomas Jefferson's grave marker ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | part of UNESCO World Heritage Site "Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville" ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Albemarle County, Virginia
ⓘ
Monticello ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Charlottesville, Virginia ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the burial place of Thomas Jefferson
ⓘ
continuing use by Jefferson descendants ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Monticello Association ⓘ |
| partOf |
Monticello estate
ⓘ
linked to:
Monticello
|
| use | active burial ground for Jefferson descendants ⓘ |
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: Monticello cemetery Description of subject: Monticello cemetery is the historic family burial ground at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate near Charlottesville, Virginia, where Jefferson and many of his relatives are interred.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Monticello cemetery
linked to: Monticello cemetery
linked to: Monticello cemetery
linked to: Monticello cemetery
linked to: Monticello cemetery
linked to: Monticello cemetery
linked to: Monticello cemetery