Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Pennsylvania, United States
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Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, is a large Roman Catholic burial ground in the Philadelphia area known for being the final resting place of numerous local figures, including labor union official and alleged mob hitman Frank Sheeran.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Pennsylvania, United States canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4977783 — 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: Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Pennsylvania, United States Context triple: [Frank Sheeran, burialPlace, Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Pennsylvania, United States]
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Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Oaklands Cemetery in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is a historic burial ground noted for being the final resting place of American composer Samuel Barber.
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B.
West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
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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C.
Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Calvary Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a large historic Catholic burial ground known as the final resting place of many notable local figures, including boxing champion Fritzie Zivic.
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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.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, is a prominent Roman Catholic burial ground known for being the final resting place of numerous notable figures from the Philadelphia area.
- 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: Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Pennsylvania, United States Target entity description: Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, is a large Roman Catholic burial ground in the Philadelphia area known for being the final resting place of numerous local figures, including labor union official and alleged mob hitman Frank Sheeran.
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A.
Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Oaklands Cemetery in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is a historic burial ground noted for being the final resting place of American composer Samuel Barber.
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B.
West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
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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C.
Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Calvary Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a large historic Catholic burial ground known as the final resting place of many notable local figures, including boxing champion Fritzie Zivic.
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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.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, is a prominent Roman Catholic burial ground known for being the final resting place of numerous notable figures from the Philadelphia area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman Catholic cemetery
ⓘ
cemetery ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
City of Philadelphia
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| buriedIn | Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Pennsylvania, United States ⓘ |
| cemeteryType | burial ground ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| denomination |
Roman Catholic
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| governedBy | Catholic Cemeteries Office of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia ⓘ |
| hasBurialPopulation | local Catholic population of the Philadelphia area ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
Catholic burial services
ⓘ
interment of deceased ⓘ |
| hasGraveType |
family plots
ⓘ
in-ground burials ⓘ monument markers ⓘ |
| hasName | Holy Cross Cemetery ⓘ |
| hasNotableCategory |
burials of labor union figures
ⓘ
burials of organized crime–associated figures ⓘ |
| hasReligiousAffiliation |
Latin Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin Church worldwide
|
| locatedIn |
Delaware County, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
Philadelphia metropolitan area ⓘ Yeadon, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | West Philadelphia ⓘ |
| notableBurial | Frank Sheeran ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the major Catholic cemeteries serving the Philadelphia region
ⓘ
being the final resting place of Frank Sheeran ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Archdiocese of Philadelphia ⓘ |
| region | Southeastern Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| servesCity | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| servesCommunity | Catholic community of the Philadelphia area ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Catholic funeral rites
ⓘ
memorialization of the dead ⓘ |
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: Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Pennsylvania, United States Description of subject: Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, is a large Roman Catholic burial ground in the Philadelphia area known for being the final resting place of numerous local figures, including labor union official and alleged mob hitman Frank Sheeran.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.