Lemsford churchyard, Hertfordshire
E545752
Lemsford churchyard in Hertfordshire is a village burial ground best known as the final resting place of society osteopath Stephen Ward, a central figure in the 1963 Profumo affair.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lemsford churchyard, Hertfordshire canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5756844 — 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: Lemsford churchyard, Hertfordshire Context triple: [Stephen Ward, burialPlace, Lemsford churchyard, Hertfordshire]
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A.
Stoke Poges churchyard
Stoke Poges churchyard is a historic English burial ground in Buckinghamshire, best known as the place that inspired Thomas Gray’s poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
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B.
Aldeburgh Parish Churchyard, Suffolk, England
Aldeburgh Parish Churchyard in Suffolk, England is a coastal churchyard best known as the final resting place of composer Benjamin Britten and his partner, tenor Peter Pears.
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C.
Wolvercote Cemetery
Wolvercote Cemetery is a burial ground in Oxford, England, best known as the final resting place of author J. R. R. Tolkien.
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D.
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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E.
St Peter’s Churchyard, Brookwood, Surrey
St Peter’s Churchyard in Brookwood, Surrey is a historic English burial ground known, among others, as the final resting place of actor and cricketer C. Aubrey Smith.
- 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: Lemsford churchyard, Hertfordshire Target entity description: Lemsford churchyard in Hertfordshire is a village burial ground best known as the final resting place of society osteopath Stephen Ward, a central figure in the 1963 Profumo affair.
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A.
Stoke Poges churchyard
Stoke Poges churchyard is a historic English burial ground in Buckinghamshire, best known as the place that inspired Thomas Gray’s poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
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B.
Aldeburgh Parish Churchyard, Suffolk, England
Aldeburgh Parish Churchyard in Suffolk, England is a coastal churchyard best known as the final resting place of composer Benjamin Britten and his partner, tenor Peter Pears.
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C.
Wolvercote Cemetery
Wolvercote Cemetery is a burial ground in Oxford, England, best known as the final resting place of author J. R. R. Tolkien.
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D.
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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E.
St Peter’s Churchyard, Brookwood, Surrey
St Peter’s Churchyard in Brookwood, Surrey is a historic English burial ground known, among others, as the final resting place of actor and cricketer C. Aubrey Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
churchyard
ⓘ
person ⓘ political scandal ⓘ |
| administeredBy | local parish authorities ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Lemsford parish church ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Lemsford churchyard, Hertfordshire ⓘ |
| category |
Cemeteries in Hertfordshire
ⓘ
Churchyards in England ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| function | place of interment ⓘ |
| hasGraveType | individual graves ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurial | Stephen Ward ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | Stephen Ward ⓘ |
| knownFor | Profumo affair ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Hertfordshire ⓘ Lemsford ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the burial place of Stephen Ward ⓘ |
| occupation | osteopath ⓘ |
| region | East of England ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Christianity ⓘ |
| usedFor | burial ground ⓘ |
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: Lemsford churchyard, Hertfordshire Description of subject: Lemsford churchyard in Hertfordshire is a village burial ground best known as the final resting place of society osteopath Stephen Ward, a central figure in the 1963 Profumo affair.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lemsford churchyard, Hertfordshire