Alaskan Way
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Alaskan Way is a major waterfront street in downtown Seattle, Washington, known for its piers, tourist attractions, and views of Elliott Bay.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alaskan Way canonical | 8 |
| Alaskan Way (Seattle) | 1 |
| Alaskan Way surface street | 1 |
| Western Avenue (Seattle) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T367678 — 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: Alaskan Way Context triple: [Seattle Great Wheel, near, Alaskan Way]
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A.
Pike Street
Pike Street is a central thoroughfare in downtown Seattle, Washington, known for running past major landmarks including the historic Pike Place Market.
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B.
Powell Street
Powell Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco best known as a central route for the city’s historic cable cars and a busy hub of shopping and tourism.
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C.
SW 6th Avenue
SW 6th Avenue is a major downtown Portland, Oregon thoroughfare that runs through the city’s core transit and commercial district.
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D.
Seward Highway
The Seward Highway is a scenic roadway in Alaska that connects Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula, renowned for its dramatic coastal and mountain views.
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E.
Washington Street
Washington Street is a major thoroughfare running through San Francisco’s Chinatown, known for its dense concentration of Chinese shops, restaurants, and cultural landmarks.
- 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: Alaskan Way Target entity description: Alaskan Way is a major waterfront street in downtown Seattle, Washington, known for its piers, tourist attractions, and views of Elliott Bay.
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A.
Pike Street
Pike Street is a central thoroughfare in downtown Seattle, Washington, known for running past major landmarks including the historic Pike Place Market.
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B.
Powell Street
Powell Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco best known as a central route for the city’s historic cable cars and a busy hub of shopping and tourism.
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C.
SW 6th Avenue
SW 6th Avenue is a major downtown Portland, Oregon thoroughfare that runs through the city’s core transit and commercial district.
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D.
Seward Highway
The Seward Highway is a scenic roadway in Alaska that connects Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula, renowned for its dramatic coastal and mountain views.
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E.
Washington Street
Washington Street is a major thoroughfare running through San Francisco’s Chinatown, known for its dense concentration of Chinese shops, restaurants, and cultural landmarks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Alaskan Way Description of subject: Alaskan Way is a major waterfront street in downtown Seattle, Washington, known for its piers, tourist attractions, and views of Elliott Bay.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.