Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery

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Russian émigré cemetery cemetery

Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is a historic burial ground near Paris that serves as the principal resting place for many notable Russian émigrés and members of the White Russian diaspora.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery canonical	4
Russian Orthodox cemetery, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France	1
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery, France	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3483048 — 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: Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
Context triple: [Georgy Lvov, burialPlace, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery]

A. Lazarevskoe Cemetery
Lazarevskoe Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, known for being the resting place of many prominent Russian figures and forming part of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra complex.
B. Vostryakovskoye Cemetery
Vostryakovskoye Cemetery is a major Moscow burial ground known for being the resting place of prominent Soviet and Russian figures, including dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov.
C. Tikhvin Cemetery
Tikhvin Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, renowned as the resting place of many prominent Russian cultural figures, including Fyodor Dostoevsky.
D. Borisovskoye Cemetery, Moscow
Borisovskoye Cemetery in Moscow is a Russian burial ground known internationally as the final resting place of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
E. Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery is a vast war memorial and burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, honoring hundreds of thousands of victims and defenders of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.
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: Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
Target entity description: Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is a historic burial ground near Paris that serves as the principal resting place for many notable Russian émigrés and members of the White Russian diaspora.

A. Lazarevskoe Cemetery
Lazarevskoe Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, known for being the resting place of many prominent Russian figures and forming part of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra complex.
B. Vostryakovskoye Cemetery
Vostryakovskoye Cemetery is a major Moscow burial ground known for being the resting place of prominent Soviet and Russian figures, including dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov.
C. Tikhvin Cemetery
Tikhvin Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, renowned as the resting place of many prominent Russian cultural figures, including Fyodor Dostoevsky.
D. Borisovskoye Cemetery, Moscow
Borisovskoye Cemetery in Moscow is a Russian burial ground known internationally as the final resting place of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
E. Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery is a vast war memorial and burial ground in Saint Petersburg, Russia, honoring hundreds of thousands of victims and defenders of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Russian émigré cemetery ⓘ cemetery ⓘ
associatedWith	Russian diaspora in France ⓘ White émigrés ⓘ linked to: White Russian émigrés
burialPlaceOf	Alexander Galich NERFINISHED ⓘ Alexei Kaledin NERFINISHED ⓘ Andrei Amalrik ⓘ Andrei Tarkovsky ⓘ Anton Denikin ⓘ Boris Poplavsky ⓘ Boris Zaitsev ⓘ Dmitri Merezhkovsky ⓘ Felix Yusupov ⓘ Irina Odoevtseva ⓘ Ivan Bunin ⓘ Lydia Lopokova (memorial) ⓘ linked to: Lydia Lopokova Nadezhda Teffi ⓘ Nikita Struve ⓘ Pyotr Wrangel (memorial cenotaph) ⓘ Rostislav Alexeyevich of Russia ⓘ linked to: Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia Vaslav Nijinsky ⓘ Zinaida Gippius ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
hasFeature	icon-decorated tombstones ⓘ landscaped alleys of graves ⓘ traditional Russian Orthodox grave markers ⓘ
hasSection	Russian necropolis ⓘ
heritageStatus	site of cultural and historical interest ⓘ
inception	1927 ⓘ
languageOfSignage	French ⓘ Russian ⓘ
locatedIn	Essonne ⓘ Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois NERFINISHED ⓘ Île-de-France ⓘ linked to: Île-de-France region
locatedNear	Paris ⓘ
notableFor	concentration of graves of prominent Russian artists ⓘ concentration of graves of prominent Russian clergy ⓘ concentration of graves of prominent Russian writers ⓘ symbolic importance for Russian émigré identity ⓘ
religiousAffiliation	Russian Orthodox Church ⓘ
significance	major burial site of the White Russian diaspora ⓘ principal resting place for Russian émigrés in France ⓘ
touristAttraction	yes ⓘ
usedFor	burial of Russian cultural figures ⓘ burial of Russian military émigrés ⓘ burial of Russian political exiles ⓘ

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Georgy Lvov → burialPlace → Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery ⓘ

Alexandre Benois → burialPlace → Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery ⓘ

Mathilde Kschessinska → burialPlace → Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery ⓘ

Rudolf Nureyev → burialPlace → Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery, France ⓘ

linked to: Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery

Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia → burialPlace → Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery ⓘ

Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia → burialPlace → Russian Orthodox cemetery, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France ⓘ