St Mary’s Churchyard, Playford, Suffolk
E344871
St Mary’s Churchyard in Playford, Suffolk is a historic rural English church burial ground best known as the final resting place of prominent abolitionist Thomas Clarkson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Mary’s Churchyard, Playford, Suffolk canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3279047 — 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: St Mary’s Churchyard, Playford, Suffolk Context triple: [Thomas Clarkson, buriedIn, St Mary’s Churchyard, Playford, Suffolk]
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A.
Old St. Mary’s Churchyard
Old St. Mary’s Churchyard is a historic burial ground in Philadelphia associated with Old St. Mary’s Church, known for its colonial-era graves and ties to early American history.
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B.
Stinsford churchyard
Stinsford churchyard is a historic Dorset burial ground closely associated with novelist Thomas Hardy, whose heart is interred there.
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C.
St Oswald’s Churchyard
St Oswald’s Churchyard is the historic parish burial ground in Grasmere, Cumbria, best known as the resting place of poet William Wordsworth and his family.
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D.
Bath Abbey Churchyard
Bath Abbey Churchyard is the historic burial ground and public space surrounding Bath Abbey in the center of Bath, England.
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E.
St Edward King and Martyr Churchyard
St Edward King and Martyr Churchyard is the historic burial ground surrounding the medieval St Edward’s church in central Cambridge, England.
- 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: St Mary’s Churchyard, Playford, Suffolk Target entity description: St Mary’s Churchyard in Playford, Suffolk is a historic rural English church burial ground best known as the final resting place of prominent abolitionist Thomas Clarkson.
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A.
Old St. Mary’s Churchyard
Old St. Mary’s Churchyard is a historic burial ground in Philadelphia associated with Old St. Mary’s Church, known for its colonial-era graves and ties to early American history.
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B.
Stinsford churchyard
Stinsford churchyard is a historic Dorset burial ground closely associated with novelist Thomas Hardy, whose heart is interred there.
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C.
St Oswald’s Churchyard
St Oswald’s Churchyard is the historic parish burial ground in Grasmere, Cumbria, best known as the resting place of poet William Wordsworth and his family.
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D.
Bath Abbey Churchyard
Bath Abbey Churchyard is the historic burial ground and public space surrounding Bath Abbey in the center of Bath, England.
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E.
St Edward King and Martyr Churchyard
St Edward King and Martyr Churchyard is the historic burial ground surrounding the medieval St Edward’s church in central Cambridge, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
burial ground
ⓘ
cemetery ⓘ churchyard ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | St Mary’s Church, Playford ⓘ |
| buriedIn | St Mary’s Churchyard, Playford, Suffolk ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
gravestones
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memorials ⓘ |
| hasGraveOf | Thomas Clarkson ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | historic rural English church burial ground ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East of England
ⓘ
England ⓘ Playford, Suffolk ⓘ
linked to:
Playford, Suffolk, England
St Mary’s Church, Playford ⓘ Suffolk ⓘ |
| movement | abolitionism ⓘ |
| namedAfter | St Mary ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the burial place of Thomas Clarkson
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campaigning against the transatlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| occupation | abolitionist ⓘ |
| setting | rural ⓘ |
| usedFor | Christian burials ⓘ |
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: St Mary’s Churchyard, Playford, Suffolk Description of subject: St Mary’s Churchyard in Playford, Suffolk is a historic rural English church burial ground best known as the final resting place of prominent abolitionist Thomas Clarkson.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
St Mary’s Churchyard, Playford, Suffolk