St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis
E660658
St. Joseph's Hospital in Memphis is the medical facility where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was pronounced dead after his assassination in 1968.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis canonical | 4 |
| St. Joseph Hospital, Memphis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7374896 — 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: St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis Context triple: [assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., KingPronouncedDeadAt, St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis]
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A.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis is a major medical center in Memphis, Tennessee, known as the birthplace of singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley.
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B.
North Mississippi Medical Center
North Mississippi Medical Center is a large regional hospital and healthcare system based in Tupelo, Mississippi, providing comprehensive medical services to communities across north Mississippi.
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C.
Shelby Baptist Medical Center
Shelby Baptist Medical Center is a regional acute care hospital serving the healthcare needs of residents in and around Alabaster, Alabama.
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D.
Blount Memorial Hospital
Blount Memorial Hospital is a regional healthcare facility serving Maryville and the surrounding communities in Blount County, Tennessee.
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E.
Western Memorial Regional Hospital
Western Memorial Regional Hospital is a major acute-care and referral hospital serving Corner Brook and the broader western Newfoundland region in Canada.
- 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: St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis Target entity description: St. Joseph's Hospital in Memphis is the medical facility where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was pronounced dead after his assassination in 1968.
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A.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis is a major medical center in Memphis, Tennessee, known as the birthplace of singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley.
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B.
North Mississippi Medical Center
North Mississippi Medical Center is a large regional hospital and healthcare system based in Tupelo, Mississippi, providing comprehensive medical services to communities across north Mississippi.
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C.
Shelby Baptist Medical Center
Shelby Baptist Medical Center is a regional acute care hospital serving the healthcare needs of residents in and around Alabaster, Alabama.
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D.
Blount Memorial Hospital
Blount Memorial Hospital is a regional healthcare facility serving Maryville and the surrounding communities in Blount County, Tennessee.
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E.
Western Memorial Regional Hospital
Western Memorial Regional Hospital is a major acute-care and referral hospital serving Corner Brook and the broader western Newfoundland region in Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | hospital ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| city | Memphis ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfDeath | 1968-04-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfNotableEvent | 1968-04-04 ⓘ |
| followedByMedicalTreatmentAt | St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Catholic religious order ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
St. Joseph Hospital, Memphis
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis
|
| hasNotablePatient | Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | site where Martin Luther King Jr. was pronounced dead ⓘ |
| industry | healthcare ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Memphis, Tennessee
ⓘ
linked to:
Memphis
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableEvent | pronouncement of death of Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| notableFor |
connection to Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination
ⓘ
role in civil rights history ⓘ |
| operationalStatus | defunct ⓘ |
| partOf | Catholic healthcare system in Memphis ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| serviceType | acute care ⓘ |
| state | Tennessee ⓘ |
| wasPronouncedDeadAt | St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis ⓘ |
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: St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis Description of subject: St. Joseph's Hospital in Memphis is the medical facility where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was pronounced dead after his assassination in 1968.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis
subject linked to:
St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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followedByMedicalTreatmentAt
→
St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis
ⓘ
subject linked to:
St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis
linked to: St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis