Salisbury National Cemetery
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Salisbury National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina, primarily known as the burial site for thousands of Union soldiers who died at the Confederate prison camp there during the Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Salisbury National Cemetery canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6109242 — 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: Salisbury National Cemetery Context triple: [Confederate Prison site in Salisbury, hasPart, Salisbury National Cemetery]
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A.
Fredericksburg National Cemetery
Fredericksburg National Cemetery is a U.S. military burial ground established after the Civil War to honor Union soldiers who died in the battles around Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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B.
St. Augustine National Cemetery
St. Augustine National Cemetery is a historic United States military burial ground in St. Augustine, Florida, notable for interring soldiers from early 19th-century conflicts and later American wars.
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C.
Ball's Bluff National Cemetery
Ball's Bluff National Cemetery is a small U.S. national military cemetery in Virginia that commemorates Union soldiers who died in the 1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff during the American Civil War.
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D.
Gettysburg National Cemetery
Gettysburg National Cemetery is a historic U.S. military burial ground in Pennsylvania best known as the site where President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
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E.
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery and national memorial site where many American service members and notable figures are buried.
- 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: Salisbury National Cemetery Target entity description: Salisbury National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina, primarily known as the burial site for thousands of Union soldiers who died at the Confederate prison camp there during the Civil War.
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A.
Fredericksburg National Cemetery
Fredericksburg National Cemetery is a U.S. military burial ground established after the Civil War to honor Union soldiers who died in the battles around Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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B.
St. Augustine National Cemetery
St. Augustine National Cemetery is a historic United States military burial ground in St. Augustine, Florida, notable for interring soldiers from early 19th-century conflicts and later American wars.
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C.
Ball's Bluff National Cemetery
Ball's Bluff National Cemetery is a small U.S. national military cemetery in Virginia that commemorates Union soldiers who died in the 1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff during the American Civil War.
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D.
Gettysburg National Cemetery
Gettysburg National Cemetery is a historic U.S. military burial ground in Pennsylvania best known as the site where President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
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E.
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery and national memorial site where many American service members and notable figures are buried.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States national cemetery ⓘ |
| associatedWithConflict | Union–Confederate conflict in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
Confederate States Army (through operation of prison camp)
ⓘ
linked to:
Confederate States Army
Union Army ⓘ |
| commemorates |
Union prisoners of war
ⓘ
United States military veterans ⓘ |
| containsFeature |
commemorative monuments
ⓘ
individual grave markers ⓘ mass graves of Union prisoners of war ⓘ |
| containsMemorial |
Civil War memorials
ⓘ
monuments to Union soldiers ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| establishedAs | burial ground for Union prisoners of war ⓘ |
| establishedDuring | American Civil War era ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
American Civil War cemeteries
ⓘ
Buildings and structures in Rowan County, North Carolina ⓘ Cemeteries in North Carolina ⓘ Military monuments and memorials in the United States ⓘ Protected areas of Rowan County, North Carolina ⓘ Tourist attractions in Rowan County, North Carolina ⓘ United States national cemeteries ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
honoring deceased military personnel
ⓘ
preserving Civil War history ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation |
National Register of Historic Places listing
ⓘ
linked to:
National Register of Historic Places
|
| hasJurisdiction | federal jurisdiction of the United States ⓘ |
| hasUse |
military cemetery
ⓘ
veterans cemetery ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationAppliesTo | Civil War-era burial section ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North Carolina
ⓘ
Piedmont region of North Carolina ⓘ Rowan County, North Carolina ⓘ Salisbury, North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| managedBy |
National Cemetery Administration
ⓘ
United States Department of Veterans Affairs ⓘ |
| memorialType | military cemetery and memorial site ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| partOf |
National Cemetery System (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
National Cemetery Administration
|
| primaryBurials | Union soldiers who died in Confederate prison camp at Salisbury ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Operation of Confederate military prison at Salisbury ⓘ |
| usedFor |
burial of eligible United States veterans
ⓘ
commemorative ceremonies ⓘ |
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: Salisbury National Cemetery Description of subject: Salisbury National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina, primarily known as the burial site for thousands of Union soldiers who died at the Confederate prison camp there during the Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.