Geary Street
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Geary Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco known for running through downtown and the Union Square shopping district.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Geary Street canonical | 5 |
| Leavenworth Street | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T882397 — 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: Geary Street Context triple: [Union Square (San Francisco), boundedBy, Geary Street]
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A.
College Street
College Street is a prominent thoroughfare in New Haven, Connecticut, running alongside Yale University’s Old Campus and connecting key parts of the downtown area.
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B.
Union Street
Union Street is a central thoroughfare in Glasgow, Scotland, known for its busy traffic, shops, and proximity to major transport hubs.
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C.
Union Street
Union Street is a notable commercial thoroughfare in San Francisco known for its boutiques, restaurants, and historic architecture.
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D.
King Street
King Street is a historic and prestigious street in Manchester, England, known for its high-end shops, offices, and notable architecture.
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E.
King Street
King Street is a major thoroughfare in Honolulu, Hawaii, running through key districts including Chinatown and serving as an important commercial and transportation corridor.
- 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: Geary Street Target entity description: Geary Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco known for running through downtown and the Union Square shopping district.
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A.
College Street
College Street is a prominent thoroughfare in New Haven, Connecticut, running alongside Yale University’s Old Campus and connecting key parts of the downtown area.
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B.
Union Street
Union Street is a central thoroughfare in Glasgow, Scotland, known for its busy traffic, shops, and proximity to major transport hubs.
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C.
Union Street
Union Street is a notable commercial thoroughfare in San Francisco known for its boutiques, restaurants, and historic architecture.
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D.
King Street
King Street is a historic and prestigious street in Manchester, England, known for its high-end shops, offices, and notable architecture.
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E.
King Street
King Street is a major thoroughfare in Honolulu, Hawaii, running through key districts including Chinatown and serving as an important commercial and transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| continuesAs | Geary Boulevard ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| hasDistrict |
Downtown
ⓘ
Union Square ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial corridor
ⓘ
major traffic artery ⓘ retail corridor ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple traffic lanes ⓘ |
| hasNeighborhood |
Japantown vicinity
ⓘ
Tenderloin ⓘ Union Square ⓘ Western Addition ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransit |
Geary bus corridor
ⓘ
linked to:
Geary Boulevard
Muni bus service ⓘ |
| hasTransportationRoute | Geary Boulevard ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Union Square shopping district
ⓘ
linked to:
Union Square
being a major east–west arterial ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
San Francisco ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | John W. Geary ⓘ |
| partOf | San Francisco street grid ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Downtown San Francisco
ⓘ
Union Square ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
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: Geary Street Description of subject: Geary Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco known for running through downtown and the Union Square shopping district.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Geary Street
subject linked to:
Union Square
subject linked to:
Curran Theatre, San Francisco