West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
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West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, is a historic garden cemetery known for its notable burials, including pioneering computer scientist John W. Mauchly.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2532884 — 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: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States Context triple: [John W. Mauchly, burialPlace, West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States]
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A.
Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Woodward Hill Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of U.S. President James Buchanan.
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B.
The Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia
The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia is a historic 19th-century rural cemetery and former estate known for its notable burials, landscaped grounds, and significant funerary art and architecture.
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C.
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia
Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia is a historic 19th-century rural cemetery and National Historic Landmark known for its elaborate monuments and as the resting place of many prominent Americans.
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D.
Eden Cemetery, Collingdale, Pennsylvania, United States
Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania, is a historic African-American burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent Black figures, including singer and civil rights icon Marian Anderson.
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E.
Hillside Cemetery, Roslyn, Pennsylvania, United States
Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn, Pennsylvania, is a historic burial ground known, among other interments, as the final resting place of Baseball Hall of Famer Chief Bender.
- 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: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States Target entity description: West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, is a historic garden cemetery known for its notable burials, including pioneering computer scientist John W. Mauchly.
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A.
Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Woodward Hill Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of U.S. President James Buchanan.
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B.
The Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia
The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia is a historic 19th-century rural cemetery and former estate known for its notable burials, landscaped grounds, and significant funerary art and architecture.
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C.
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia
Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia is a historic 19th-century rural cemetery and National Historic Landmark known for its elaborate monuments and as the resting place of many prominent Americans.
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D.
Eden Cemetery, Collingdale, Pennsylvania, United States
Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania, is a historic African-American burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent Black figures, including singer and civil rights icon Marian Anderson.
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E.
Hillside Cemetery, Roslyn, Pennsylvania, United States
Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn, Pennsylvania, is a historic burial ground known, among other interments, as the final resting place of Baseball Hall of Famer Chief Bender.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
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garden cemetery ⓘ rural cemetery ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| foundedBy | John Jay Smith ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | 40.016°N 75.221°W ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Curving roads and pathways
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Monumental funerary art ⓘ Victorian garden landscape ⓘ Views of the Schuylkill River ⓘ
linked to:
Schuylkill River waterfront
|
| hasPart |
Columbarium
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Crematory ⓘ Funeral home ⓘ Green burial section ⓘ Mausoleums ⓘ Pet cemetery ⓘ |
| hasUse |
Active burial ground
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Cremation services ⓘ Genealogical research site ⓘ Historic tours ⓘ Memorial services ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://westlaurelhill.com/ ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Historic cemetery ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Philadelphia region historic cemeteries ⓘ |
| isSisterCemeteryOf |
Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)
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linked to:
Laurel Hill Cemetery
|
| landscapeStyle | 19th-century picturesque style ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
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linked to:
Bala Cynwyd
Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Merion Township
|
| locatedNear |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| notableBurial |
Boies Penrose
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Bok family members ⓘ Disston family members ⓘ Elkins family members ⓘ
linked to:
Elkins family
George W. Childs Drexel ⓘ Gimbel family members ⓘ John C. Bell Jr. ⓘ John W. Mauchly ⓘ Louis Kahn ⓘ Rebecca Gratz (cenotaph or family connection) ⓘ Rorer family members ⓘ Samuel Riddle ⓘ Strawbridge family members ⓘ Widener family members ⓘ William Welsh Harrison ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Laurel Hill Cemetery Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Laurel Hill Cemetery
|
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States Description of subject: West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, is a historic garden cemetery known for its notable burials, including pioneering computer scientist John W. Mauchly.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
John W. Mauchly
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burialPlace
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West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
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Teddy Pendergrass
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burialPlace
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West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
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