Trinity Churchyard (Newport, Rhode Island)
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Trinity Churchyard (Newport, Rhode Island) is a historic colonial-era burial ground associated with Newport’s Trinity Church, known for its early American gravestones and notable interments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Trinity Churchyard (Newport, Rhode Island) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9750942 — 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: Trinity Churchyard (Newport, Rhode Island) Context triple: [Trinity Church (Newport, Rhode Island), hasCemetery, Trinity Churchyard (Newport, Rhode Island)]
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A.
Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island
Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island is a historic burial ground notable for being the final resting place of prominent figures including naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry.
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B.
Trinity Church Cemetery
Trinity Church Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Manhattan, New York City, known as the resting place of many prominent figures from American history.
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C.
North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island
North Burial Ground in Providence, Rhode Island is a historic municipal cemetery established in the early 18th century, known as the resting place of many notable local and national figures.
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D.
Christ Church Burial Ground
Christ Church Burial Ground is a historic Philadelphia cemetery best known as the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and other prominent colonial and Revolutionary-era figures.
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E.
Granary Burying Ground
Granary Burying Ground is a historic 17th-century cemetery in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, known as the resting place of several prominent figures of the American Revolution, including Paul Revere.
- 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: Trinity Churchyard (Newport, Rhode Island) Target entity description: Trinity Churchyard (Newport, Rhode Island) is a historic colonial-era burial ground associated with Newport’s Trinity Church, known for its early American gravestones and notable interments.
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A.
Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island
Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island is a historic burial ground notable for being the final resting place of prominent figures including naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry.
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B.
Trinity Church Cemetery
Trinity Church Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Manhattan, New York City, known as the resting place of many prominent figures from American history.
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C.
North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island
North Burial Ground in Providence, Rhode Island is a historic municipal cemetery established in the early 18th century, known as the resting place of many notable local and national figures.
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D.
Christ Church Burial Ground
Christ Church Burial Ground is a historic Philadelphia cemetery best known as the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and other prominent colonial and Revolutionary-era figures.
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E.
Granary Burying Ground
Granary Burying Ground is a historic 17th-century cemetery in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, known as the resting place of several prominent figures of the American Revolution, including Paul Revere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | historic cemetery ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Trinity Church (Newport, Rhode Island)
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linked to:
Trinity Church
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| associatedWith |
Trinity Church (Newport, Rhode Island)
ⓘ
linked to:
Trinity Church
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalSignificance |
example of early American Anglican burial practices
ⓘ
resource for the study of colonial funerary art ⓘ |
| denomination | Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| environment | urban churchyard setting ⓘ |
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Trinity Church parish
ⓘ
linked to:
Trinity Church
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| hasFeature |
family plots
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inscribed epitaphs ⓘ table tombs ⓘ upright headstones ⓘ |
| hasNotableBurials |
clergy of Trinity Church
ⓘ
colonial-era Newport residents ⓘ |
| hasStyle | colonial New England gravestone art ⓘ |
| heritage | colonial-era burial ground ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
contributing property to a National Historic Landmark District
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contributing property to the Newport Historic District (National Historic Landmark) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
carved death’s-head motifs
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colonial funerary art ⓘ early American gravestones ⓘ notable interments ⓘ slate gravestones ⓘ winged skull iconography ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Newport Historic District
ⓘ
Newport, Rhode Island ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty |
Newport County, Rhode Island
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linked to:
Newport County
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| locatedInState | Rhode Island ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Trinity Church property
ⓘ
linked to:
Trinity Church
|
| preservationStatus | historically protected as part of Newport Historic District ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
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| tourism | historic tourist attraction ⓘ |
| usedFor |
burials
ⓘ
commemoration of the dead ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Trinity Churchyard (Newport, Rhode Island) Description of subject: Trinity Churchyard (Newport, Rhode Island) is a historic colonial-era burial ground associated with Newport’s Trinity Church, known for its early American gravestones and notable interments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Trinity Church