Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia
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Friends Burial Ground in Philadelphia is a historic Quaker cemetery known for being the final resting place of early American figures, including Samuel Nicholas, the first commandant of the United States Marine Corps.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3463732 — 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: Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia Context triple: [Samuel Nicholas, burialPlace, Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia]
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A.
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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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.
St. Peter’s Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia
St. Peter’s Episcopal Churchyard in Philadelphia is a historic colonial-era burial ground associated with St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, known for being the final resting place of prominent 18th- and 19th-century American figures.
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D.
Grove Street Cemetery
Grove Street Cemetery is a historic 19th-century burial ground in New Haven, Connecticut, known as one of the first chartered cemetery associations in the United States and the resting place of many prominent Yale-affiliated figures.
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E.
Central Burying Ground
Central Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on Boston Common known as the resting place of many 18th- and 19th-century Bostonians, including victims of the Boston Massacre.
- 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: Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia Target entity description: Friends Burial Ground in Philadelphia is a historic Quaker cemetery known for being the final resting place of early American figures, including Samuel Nicholas, the first commandant of the United States Marine Corps.
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A.
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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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.
St. Peter’s Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia
St. Peter’s Episcopal Churchyard in Philadelphia is a historic colonial-era burial ground associated with St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, known for being the final resting place of prominent 18th- and 19th-century American figures.
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D.
Grove Street Cemetery
Grove Street Cemetery is a historic 19th-century burial ground in New Haven, Connecticut, known as one of the first chartered cemetery associations in the United States and the resting place of many prominent Yale-affiliated figures.
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E.
Central Burying Ground
Central Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on Boston Common known as the resting place of many 18th- and 19th-century Bostonians, including victims of the Boston Massacre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Quaker burial ground
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cemetery ⓘ historic site ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
United States Marine Corps history
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early American history ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
resting place of early American Quakers
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resting place of early American military figures ⓘ |
| denomination |
Quaker
ⓘ
linked to:
Religious Society of Friends
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| hasBurial | early American figures ⓘ |
| hasGraveType |
simple headstones
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unmarked graves ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic cemetery ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
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| maintainedBy | Quaker community ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| notableBurial | Samuel Nicholas ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| partOf | Quaker heritage sites in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| positionHeld | first commandant of the United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Quakers
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linked to:
Religious Society of Friends
Religious Society of Friends ⓘ |
| usedFor | burial ⓘ |
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: Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia Description of subject: Friends Burial Ground in Philadelphia is a historic Quaker cemetery known for being the final resting place of early American figures, including Samuel Nicholas, the first commandant of the United States Marine Corps.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dr. Thomas Wynne