Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
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Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha, Wisconsin, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of pioneering guitarist and inventor Les Paul.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prairie Home Cemetery (English) | 1 |
| Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2589907 — 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: Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States Context triple: [Les Paul, burialPlace, Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States]
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A.
St. Mary's Cemetery, Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
St. Mary's Cemetery in Appleton, Wisconsin, is a Catholic burial ground best known as the final resting place of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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B.
Oakland Cemetery, Iowa, United States
Oakland Cemetery in Iowa, United States, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of influential American labor leader John L. Lewis.
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C.
Peshtigo Fire Cemetery
Peshtigo Fire Cemetery is a historic burial ground and memorial site in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, honoring the victims of the devastating 1871 Peshtigo Fire.
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D.
Elmwood Cemetery, St. Paul, Nebraska, United States
Elmwood Cemetery in St. Paul, Nebraska, is a burial ground best known as the final resting place of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander.
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E.
Roselawn Cemetery, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Roselawn Cemetery in Champaign, Illinois, is a local burial ground notable as the final resting place of Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Bardeen.
- 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: Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States Target entity description: Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha, Wisconsin, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of pioneering guitarist and inventor Les Paul.
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A.
St. Mary's Cemetery, Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
St. Mary's Cemetery in Appleton, Wisconsin, is a Catholic burial ground best known as the final resting place of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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B.
Oakland Cemetery, Iowa, United States
Oakland Cemetery in Iowa, United States, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of influential American labor leader John L. Lewis.
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C.
Peshtigo Fire Cemetery
Peshtigo Fire Cemetery is a historic burial ground and memorial site in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, honoring the victims of the devastating 1871 Peshtigo Fire.
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D.
Elmwood Cemetery, St. Paul, Nebraska, United States
Elmwood Cemetery in St. Paul, Nebraska, is a burial ground best known as the final resting place of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander.
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E.
Roselawn Cemetery, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Roselawn Cemetery in Champaign, Illinois, is a local burial ground notable as the final resting place of Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Bardeen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
burial ground
ⓘ
cemetery ⓘ city ⓘ county ⓘ human ⓘ state of the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasBurialPurpose | public cemetery ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | approximate coordinates 43.01°N 88.23°W ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | resting place of pioneering guitarist and inventor Les Paul ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Prairie Home Cemetery (English) ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial |
Les Paul
ⓘ
other local historical figures from Waukesha ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryUse | human burials ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic cemetery (local significance) ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Waukesha, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Waukesha County, Wisconsin
ⓘ
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedInSettlement |
City of Waukesha
ⓘ
linked to:
Waukesha, Wisconsin
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
inventor ⓘ |
| partOf |
cemeteries in Waukesha County, Wisconsin
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cemeteries in Wisconsin ⓘ cemeteries in the United States ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Prairie Home Cemetery ⓘ |
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: Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States Description of subject: Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha, Wisconsin, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of pioneering guitarist and inventor Les Paul.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
linked to: Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States