Van Dorn Street station
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Van Dorn Street station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Alexandria, Virginia, serving the Blue Line near the city's western edge.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Van Dorn Street station canonical | 10 |
| Van Dorn Street Metro station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1058812 — 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: Van Dorn Street station Context triple: [Blue Line (Washington Metro), stationServed, Van Dorn Street station]
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A.
Southern Avenue station
Southern Avenue station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Prince George's County, Maryland, serving the Green Line near the District of Columbia border.
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B.
Branch Avenue station
Branch Avenue station is a Washington Metro rail station in Maryland that serves as the southern terminus of the system’s Green Line.
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C.
Crescent Street station
Crescent Street station is a New York City Subway station in Brooklyn served by the J train.
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D.
Fulton Street station
Fulton Street station is a major New York City Subway complex in Lower Manhattan that serves multiple lines and connects to the Fulton Center transit hub.
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E.
Pattison Avenue station
Pattison Avenue station is a subway station in Philadelphia that serves as the southern terminus of SEPTA’s Broad Street Line, providing access to the South Philadelphia Sports Complex.
- 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: Van Dorn Street station Target entity description: Van Dorn Street station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Alexandria, Virginia, serving the Blue Line near the city's western edge.
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A.
Southern Avenue station
Southern Avenue station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Prince George's County, Maryland, serving the Green Line near the District of Columbia border.
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B.
Branch Avenue station
Branch Avenue station is a Washington Metro rail station in Maryland that serves as the southern terminus of the system’s Green Line.
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C.
Crescent Street station
Crescent Street station is a New York City Subway station in Brooklyn served by the J train.
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D.
Fulton Street station
Fulton Street station is a major New York City Subway complex in Lower Manhattan that serves multiple lines and connects to the Fulton Center transit hub.
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E.
Pattison Avenue station
Pattison Avenue station is a subway station in Philadelphia that serves as the southern terminus of SEPTA’s Broad Street Line, providing access to the South Philadelphia Sports Complex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: Van Dorn Street station Description of subject: Van Dorn Street station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Alexandria, Virginia, serving the Blue Line near the city's western edge.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Blue Line
linked to: Van Dorn Street station
subject linked to:
Zone 3 (WMATA fare structure context)
subject linked to:
Alexandria