New Jewish Cemetery in Prague
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The New Jewish Cemetery in Prague is a historic Jewish burial ground best known as the final resting place of writer Franz Kafka.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Jewish Cemetery in Prague canonical | 2 |
| New Jewish Cemetery in Olšany | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T834802 — 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: New Jewish Cemetery in Prague Context triple: [Franz Kafka, burialPlace, New Jewish Cemetery in Prague]
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A.
Vienna Central Cemetery
Vienna Central Cemetery is one of Europe's largest and most famous cemeteries in Vienna, Austria, known for being the resting place of many notable figures in science, music, and politics.
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B.
Wenceslas Square
Wenceslas Square is a major historic boulevard and commercial center in Prague, renowned as a focal point for political demonstrations and public gatherings in Czech history.
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C.
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp was a Nazi ghetto-labor camp in occupied Czechoslovakia, used both as a transit point to extermination camps and as a propaganda “model” camp to deceive the outside world about the Holocaust.
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D.
Radom Ghetto
Radom Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland where Jews were confined under brutal conditions before many were deported to extermination camps.
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E.
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery is a historic Jewish burial ground in Warsaw, Poland, known as one of the largest and most important Jewish cemeteries in Europe.
- 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: New Jewish Cemetery in Prague Target entity description: The New Jewish Cemetery in Prague is a historic Jewish burial ground best known as the final resting place of writer Franz Kafka.
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A.
Vienna Central Cemetery
Vienna Central Cemetery is one of Europe's largest and most famous cemeteries in Vienna, Austria, known for being the resting place of many notable figures in science, music, and politics.
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B.
Wenceslas Square
Wenceslas Square is a major historic boulevard and commercial center in Prague, renowned as a focal point for political demonstrations and public gatherings in Czech history.
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C.
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp was a Nazi ghetto-labor camp in occupied Czechoslovakia, used both as a transit point to extermination camps and as a propaganda “model” camp to deceive the outside world about the Holocaust.
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D.
Radom Ghetto
Radom Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland where Jews were confined under brutal conditions before many were deported to extermination camps.
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E.
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery is a historic Jewish burial ground in Warsaw, Poland, known as one of the largest and most important Jewish cemeteries in Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish cemetery
ⓘ
burial ground ⓘ cemetery ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | historicist funerary art ⓘ |
| burialTradition | Jewish funerary customs ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation |
14.485
ⓘ
50.084 ⓘ |
| country | Czech Republic ⓘ |
| hasAddress |
Izraelská street, Prague 3
ⓘ
linked to:
Jewish Quarter (Josefov) in Prague
|
| hasArtwork | symbolic Jewish tombstone carvings ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
major site of Jewish history in Prague
ⓘ
pilgrimage site for admirers of Franz Kafka ⓘ |
| hasGraveType |
family vaults
ⓘ
individual graves ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | protected monument ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Czech
ⓘ
German ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Franz Kafka grave
ⓘ
Holocaust memorials ⓘ
linked to:
Holocaust remembrance
ceremonial hall ⓘ children’s section ⓘ family tombs ⓘ war memorials ⓘ |
| hasUse |
Jewish burial
ⓘ
memorial site ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | cultural monument of the Czech Republic ⓘ |
| inception | 1890 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Prague
ⓘ
Prague 3 ⓘ Žižkov ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Olšany Cemeteries ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Jewish Community of Prague ⓘ |
| notableBurial |
Franz Kafka
ⓘ
Hermann Kafka ⓘ Jiří Orten ⓘ Julie Kafka ⓘ Max Brod ⓘ Ota Pavel ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Jewish Community of Prague ⓘ |
| partOf | Jewish heritage of Prague ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| replaces |
Old Jewish Cemetery in Josefov
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague
Old Jewish Cemetery in Žižkov ⓘ
linked to:
Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague
|
| significantEvent | establishment of new Jewish burial grounds for Prague community ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
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: New Jewish Cemetery in Prague Description of subject: The New Jewish Cemetery in Prague is a historic Jewish burial ground best known as the final resting place of writer Franz Kafka.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: New Jewish Cemetery in Prague