Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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Salem Cemetery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known as the final resting place of tobacco magnate and philanthropist Richard Joshua Reynolds and other prominent local figures.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States canonical | 2 |
| Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6558996 — 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: Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States Context triple: [Richard Joshua Reynolds, burialPlace, Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States]
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Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known, among other things, as the final resting place of actor Sidney Blackmer.
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Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina
Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including architect Henry Bacon, and its picturesque Victorian-era funerary art and landscaping.
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C.
Oakwood Cemetery, Siler City, North Carolina, United States
Oakwood Cemetery in Siler City, North Carolina, is a local burial ground best known as the final resting place of actress Frances Bavier, who played Aunt Bee on "The Andy Griffith Show."
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Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall and many other prominent 19th-century figures.
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E.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent political figures, including long-serving U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr.
- 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: Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States Target entity description: Salem Cemetery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known as the final resting place of tobacco magnate and philanthropist Richard Joshua Reynolds and other prominent local figures.
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A.
Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known, among other things, as the final resting place of actor Sidney Blackmer.
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B.
Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina
Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including architect Henry Bacon, and its picturesque Victorian-era funerary art and landscaping.
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C.
Oakwood Cemetery, Siler City, North Carolina, United States
Oakwood Cemetery in Siler City, North Carolina, is a local burial ground best known as the final resting place of actress Frances Bavier, who played Aunt Bee on "The Andy Griffith Show."
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D.
Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, is a historic burial ground best known as the final resting place of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall and many other prominent 19th-century figures.
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E.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia is a historic burial ground known for being the final resting place of prominent political figures, including long-serving U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
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philanthropist ⓘ tobacco magnate ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Burials in Forsyth County, North Carolina ⓘ Cemeteries in North Carolina ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFeature |
grave markers
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landscaped grounds ⓘ monuments ⓘ |
| hasFunction | public cemetery ⓘ |
| hasGraveType |
family plots
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individual graves ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic cemetery ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the burial place of Richard Joshua Reynolds
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burials of prominent local figures ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Forsyth County, North Carolina
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North Carolina ⓘ Winston-Salem, North Carolina ⓘ |
| notableBurial | Richard Joshua Reynolds ⓘ |
| partOf | Winston-Salem metropolitan area ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Christianity (primarily) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
interment
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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: Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States Description of subject: Salem Cemetery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a historic burial ground known as the final resting place of tobacco magnate and philanthropist Richard Joshua Reynolds and other prominent local figures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Richard Joshua Reynolds
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burialPlace
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Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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linked to: Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
subject linked to:
Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States