Broadway
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Broadway is a major thoroughfare in Cambridge, Massachusetts, running through the city center and connecting key academic, residential, and commercial areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broadway canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1202835 — 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: Broadway Context triple: [Cambridge city center, traversedBy, Broadway]
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A.
Broadway
Broadway is a subway station in South Boston on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) system, providing access to the surrounding residential and commercial neighborhoods.
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B.
Broadway
Broadway is a major thoroughfare in New York City famous for its historic theaters and role as the heart of American commercial theater.
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C.
Broadway
Broadway is a picturesque English village in Worcestershire’s Cotswolds, known for its honey-colored stone buildings, historic High Street, and role as a popular tourist destination.
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D.
Broadway Theatre District
The Broadway Theatre District is New York City's famed hub of live theater and musicals, centered around Times Square and known as the pinnacle of American commercial stage performance.
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E.
Broadway on Broadway
Broadway on Broadway was an annual outdoor concert in Times Square that kicked off the New York City Broadway season with performances from current and upcoming shows.
- 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: Broadway Target entity description: Broadway is a major thoroughfare in Cambridge, Massachusetts, running through the city center and connecting key academic, residential, and commercial areas.
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A.
Broadway
Broadway is a subway station in South Boston on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) system, providing access to the surrounding residential and commercial neighborhoods.
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B.
Broadway
Broadway is a major thoroughfare in New York City famous for its historic theaters and role as the heart of American commercial theater.
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C.
Broadway
Broadway is a picturesque English village in Worcestershire’s Cotswolds, known for its honey-colored stone buildings, historic High Street, and role as a popular tourist destination.
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D.
Broadway Theatre District
The Broadway Theatre District is New York City's famed hub of live theater and musicals, centered around Times Square and known as the pinnacle of American commercial stage performance.
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E.
Broadway on Broadway
Broadway on Broadway was an annual outdoor concert in Times Square that kicked off the New York City Broadway season with performances from current and upcoming shows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| connectsArea |
academic areas of Cambridge
ⓘ
commercial areas of Cambridge ⓘ residential areas of Cambridge ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
Cambridge city government
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Cambridge government
|
| hasMunicipality | City of Cambridge ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeRegion |
02138
ⓘ
02139 ⓘ |
| hasRoadType | urban arterial road ⓘ |
| hasState | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| hasSurface | paved ⓘ |
| isPublicInfrastructure | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ Middlesex County, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| partOf | street network of Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Cambridge city center ⓘ |
| roadFunction | connector between key city districts ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bicycle traffic
ⓘ
pedestrian traffic ⓘ vehicular traffic ⓘ |
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: Broadway Description of subject: Broadway is a major thoroughfare in Cambridge, Massachusetts, running through the city center and connecting key academic, residential, and commercial areas.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.