Washington Street surface section
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The Washington Street surface section is the above-ground bus rapid transit corridor of Boston’s MBTA Silver Line that runs along Washington Street, serving neighborhoods such as the South End and Roxbury.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Washington Street surface section canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1192800 — 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: Washington Street surface section Context triple: [MBTA Silver Line, hasSection, Washington Street surface section]
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A.
Washington Street commercial corridor
The Washington Street commercial corridor is Hoboken’s primary downtown thoroughfare, lined with shops, restaurants, bars, and historic buildings that form the city’s main business and social hub.
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B.
Washington Street Mall
Washington Street Mall is a popular pedestrian shopping and dining district in historic Cape May, New Jersey.
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C.
Western Avenue corridor
The Western Avenue corridor is a key urban thoroughfare and development zone in Boston’s Allston neighborhood that serves as a central spine for Harvard University’s expanding Allston campus and surrounding mixed-use projects.
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D.
State Street and Washington Avenue
State Street and Washington Avenue is a major intersection in downtown Albany, New York, located directly in front of the New York State Capitol building.
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E.
Tremont Street commercial corridor
Tremont Street commercial corridor is a key mixed-use business district in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood, known for its dense concentration of shops, restaurants, and local services.
- 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: Washington Street surface section Target entity description: The Washington Street surface section is the above-ground bus rapid transit corridor of Boston’s MBTA Silver Line that runs along Washington Street, serving neighborhoods such as the South End and Roxbury.
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A.
Washington Street commercial corridor
The Washington Street commercial corridor is Hoboken’s primary downtown thoroughfare, lined with shops, restaurants, bars, and historic buildings that form the city’s main business and social hub.
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B.
Washington Street Mall
Washington Street Mall is a popular pedestrian shopping and dining district in historic Cape May, New Jersey.
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C.
Western Avenue corridor
The Western Avenue corridor is a key urban thoroughfare and development zone in Boston’s Allston neighborhood that serves as a central spine for Harvard University’s expanding Allston campus and surrounding mixed-use projects.
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D.
State Street and Washington Avenue
State Street and Washington Avenue is a major intersection in downtown Albany, New York, located directly in front of the New York State Capitol building.
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E.
Tremont Street commercial corridor
Tremont Street commercial corridor is a key mixed-use business district in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood, known for its dense concentration of shops, restaurants, and local services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus rapid transit corridor
ⓘ
public transit infrastructure ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Dudley Square area
ⓘ
linked to:
Dudley Square
downtown Boston ⓘ
linked to:
Downtown Boston
|
| corridorNameOrigin | named for Washington Street ⓘ |
| fareSystem |
MBTA fare system
ⓘ
linked to:
MBTA AFC 2.0
|
| hasFeature |
accessible stops
ⓘ
bus stops with shelters ⓘ traffic signal priority ⓘ |
| hasRightOfWay | on-street lanes ⓘ |
| hasService |
Silver Line SL4
ⓘ
Silver Line SL5 ⓘ |
| hasTransitType | busway ⓘ |
| isAboveGround | true ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork | MBTA bus network ⓘ |
| isSegmentOf |
Silver Line Washington Street branch
ⓘ
linked to:
Silver Line
|
| locatedIn |
Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| operatedBy |
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
ⓘ
linked to:
MBTA
|
| partOf | MBTA Silver Line ⓘ |
| runsAlong | Washington Street ⓘ |
| servesNeighborhood |
Roxbury
ⓘ
South End ⓘ |
| usesMode |
bus
ⓘ
bus rapid transit ⓘ |
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: Washington Street surface section Description of subject: The Washington Street surface section is the above-ground bus rapid transit corridor of Boston’s MBTA Silver Line that runs along Washington Street, serving neighborhoods such as the South End and Roxbury.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.