Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments and significant funerary art and sculpture.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States | 12 |
| Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. canonical | 4 |
| Adams Memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1769262 — 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: Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Context triple: [Willis Van Devanter, burialPlace, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.]
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Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States
Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its picturesque landscape and notable burials, including members of prominent American political families.
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Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) is a historic burial ground in the nation’s capital known for being the final resting place of many prominent African American leaders and community figures.
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Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic Catholic burial ground notable for being the final resting place of prominent figures including James Hoban, the architect of the White House.
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Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including figures connected to the Lincoln assassination.
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Woodlawn National Cemetery
Woodlawn National Cemetery is a United States national military burial ground in Elmira, New York, known for interring Civil War prisoners of war and other American veterans.
- 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: Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Target entity description: Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments and significant funerary art and sculpture.
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A.
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States
Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its picturesque landscape and notable burials, including members of prominent American political families.
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B.
Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) is a historic burial ground in the nation’s capital known for being the final resting place of many prominent African American leaders and community figures.
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C.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic Catholic burial ground notable for being the final resting place of prominent figures including James Hoban, the architect of the White House.
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D.
Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including figures connected to the Lincoln assassination.
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E.
Woodlawn National Cemetery
Woodlawn National Cemetery is a United States national military burial ground in Elmira, New York, known for interring Civil War prisoners of war and other American veterans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
ⓘ
historic cemetery ⓘ rural cemetery ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Rock Creek Churchyard
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Soldiers’ Home Cemetery ⓘ |
| containsGraveOf |
Charles Evans Hughes
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Henry Adams ⓘ Julius Garfinckel ⓘ Marian Hooper Adams ⓘ Upton Sinclair ⓘ many Washington, D.C. political figures ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| denomination | Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| established | 1719 ⓘ |
| expandedAs | rural cemetery in the 19th century ⓘ |
| foundedAs | churchyard burial ground of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| hasArtworkBy |
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Gutzon Borglum ⓘ other prominent American sculptors ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
elaborate grave markers
ⓘ
family plots ⓘ mature trees ⓘ mausoleums ⓘ winding roads ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeStyle |
park-like setting
ⓘ
picturesque 19th-century rural cemetery design ⓘ |
| hasWork | Adams Memorial ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic site in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| knownFor |
funerary art
ⓘ
historic graves ⓘ notable interments ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| listedOn | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
District of Columbia
ⓘ
Northwest Washington, D.C. ⓘ Rock Creek Church Road NW ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ near Fort Totten ⓘ |
| NRHPType | historic district ⓘ |
| openTo | public ⓘ |
| ownedBy | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish ⓘ |
| partOf | Rock Creek Parish ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| usedFor |
burials
ⓘ
commemoration ⓘ quiet reflection ⓘ |
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: Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Description of subject: Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments and significant funerary art and sculpture.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Justice Willis Van Devanter
linked to: Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Martin F. Conway (U.S. politician)
linked to: Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Justice Wiley B. Rutledge
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Justice Stone
linked to: Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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"Princess Alice"
linked to: Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Gardner Hubbard
linked to: Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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