Van Ness Street NW
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Van Ness Street NW is a major east–west residential and institutional street in Northwest Washington, D.C., running through neighborhoods such as Forest Hills and serving sites including the University of the District of Columbia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Van Ness Street NW canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1002542 — 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 Ness Street NW Context triple: [Connecticut Avenue NW, hasIntersection, Van Ness Street NW]
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A.
Wisconsin Avenue NW
Wisconsin Avenue NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the historic Georgetown neighborhood and serving as a key commercial and transportation corridor.
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B.
Calvert Street NW
Calvert Street NW is a major east–west street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running through neighborhoods such as Woodley Park and Adams Morgan and crossing Rock Creek Park via the Duke Ellington Bridge.
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C.
B Street NW
B Street NW was the former name of a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., later renamed Constitution Avenue NW.
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D.
18th Street NW
18th Street NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several prominent neighborhoods and near key federal landmarks.
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E.
23rd Street NW
23rd Street NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the Foggy Bottom area near the U.S. Department of State and George Washington University.
- 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 Ness Street NW Target entity description: Van Ness Street NW is a major east–west residential and institutional street in Northwest Washington, D.C., running through neighborhoods such as Forest Hills and serving sites including the University of the District of Columbia.
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A.
Wisconsin Avenue NW
Wisconsin Avenue NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the historic Georgetown neighborhood and serving as a key commercial and transportation corridor.
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B.
Calvert Street NW
Calvert Street NW is a major east–west street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running through neighborhoods such as Woodley Park and Adams Morgan and crossing Rock Creek Park via the Duke Ellington Bridge.
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C.
B Street NW
B Street NW was the former name of a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., later renamed Constitution Avenue NW.
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D.
18th Street NW
18th Street NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several prominent neighborhoods and near key federal landmarks.
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E.
23rd Street NW
23rd Street NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the Foggy Bottom area near the U.S. Department of State and George Washington University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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 Ness Street NW Description of subject: Van Ness Street NW is a major east–west residential and institutional street in Northwest Washington, D.C., running through neighborhoods such as Forest Hills and serving sites including the University of the District of Columbia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.