Longacre Square
E17065
Longacre Square was the original name of New York City’s Times Square, a major commercial and entertainment hub in Midtown Manhattan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Longacre Square canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23780 — 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: Longacre Square Context triple: [Times Square, formerName, Longacre Square]
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A.
Porter Square
Porter Square is a bustling commercial and transit hub in northern Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its shopping centers, restaurants, and MBTA Red Line and commuter rail station.
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B.
Palmer Square
Palmer Square is a prominent mixed-use town square in downtown Princeton, New Jersey, known for its upscale shops, restaurants, offices, and public gathering spaces adjacent to Princeton University.
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C.
Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Benjamin Franklin Parkway is a grand, diagonal boulevard in Philadelphia known for its cultural institutions, museums, and monuments, often compared to the Champs-Élysées.
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D.
Inman Square
Inman Square is a vibrant, historically working-class neighborhood and commercial district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its diverse restaurants, bars, and local businesses.
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E.
Walnut Street
Walnut Street is a major commercial and cultural thoroughfare in Philadelphia, known for its shops, restaurants, and proximity to several universities in University City.
- 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: Longacre Square Target entity description: Longacre Square was the original name of New York City’s Times Square, a major commercial and entertainment hub in Midtown Manhattan.
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A.
Porter Square
Porter Square is a bustling commercial and transit hub in northern Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its shopping centers, restaurants, and MBTA Red Line and commuter rail station.
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B.
Palmer Square
Palmer Square is a prominent mixed-use town square in downtown Princeton, New Jersey, known for its upscale shops, restaurants, offices, and public gathering spaces adjacent to Princeton University.
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C.
Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Benjamin Franklin Parkway is a grand, diagonal boulevard in Philadelphia known for its cultural institutions, museums, and monuments, often compared to the Champs-Élysées.
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D.
Inman Square
Inman Square is a vibrant, historically working-class neighborhood and commercial district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its diverse restaurants, bars, and local businesses.
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E.
Walnut Street
Walnut Street is a major commercial and cultural thoroughfare in Philadelphia, known for its shops, restaurants, and proximity to several universities in University City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former place name
ⓘ
neighborhood ⓘ square ⓘ |
| associatedWith | The New York Times ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| boundedBy |
42nd Street
ⓘ
47th Street ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerNameOf | Times Square ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateRegion | central Manhattan ⓘ |
| hasFormerName | Longacre Square ⓘ |
| historicalFunction |
carriage-making district
ⓘ
horse-trading area ⓘ |
| knownFor |
commercial activity
ⓘ
entertainment venues ⓘ theater district surroundings ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
Midtown Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | Long Acre, London ⓘ |
| partOf |
the Broadway theater district
ⓘ
linked to:
Broadway Theatre District
|
| renamedAs | Times Square ⓘ |
| renamedBy | The New York Times ⓘ |
| renamedInYear | 1904 ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Times Square as official name ⓘ |
| timePeriodAsName | before 1904 ⓘ |
| traversedBy |
Broadway
ⓘ
Seventh Avenue ⓘ |
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: Longacre Square Description of subject: Longacre Square was the original name of New York City’s Times Square, a major commercial and entertainment hub in Midtown Manhattan.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.