West 34th Street
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West 34th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its dense commercial activity and landmark buildings, including the Empire State Building.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West 34th Street canonical | 9 |
| 34th Street | 6 |
| 34th Street and Seventh Avenue | 1 |
| 34th Street in Manhattan | 1 |
| West 34th Street addresses increase westward from Fifth Avenue | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23827 — 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: West 34th Street Context triple: [Empire State Building, locatedBetween, West 34th Street]
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A.
West 42nd Street
West 42nd Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan known for its theaters, landmarks, and role as a central artery of New York City's entertainment district.
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B.
West 47th Street
West 47th Street is a major east–west street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for areas like the Diamond District and its proximity to Times Square.
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C.
West 33rd Street
West 33rd Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for running through the bustling commercial district that includes landmarks like the Empire State Building and Penn Station.
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D.
Seventh Avenue
Seventh Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City, known for running through key commercial and cultural areas including the Garment District and Times Square.
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E.
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Manhattan renowned as one of the world’s premier shopping streets and a symbol of New York City’s luxury and culture.
- 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: West 34th Street Target entity description: West 34th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its dense commercial activity and landmark buildings, including the Empire State Building.
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A.
West 42nd Street
West 42nd Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan known for its theaters, landmarks, and role as a central artery of New York City's entertainment district.
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B.
West 47th Street
West 47th Street is a major east–west street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for areas like the Diamond District and its proximity to Times Square.
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C.
West 33rd Street
West 33rd Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for running through the bustling commercial district that includes landmarks like the Empire State Building and Penn Station.
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D.
Seventh Avenue
Seventh Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City, known for running through key commercial and cultural areas including the Garment District and Times Square.
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E.
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Manhattan renowned as one of the world’s premier shopping streets and a symbol of New York City’s luxury and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
east–west street
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street ⓘ thoroughfare ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Madison Square Garden
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Penn Station ⓘ
linked to:
Penn Station (New York City)
|
| crosses |
Eighth Avenue
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Fifth Avenue ⓘ Ninth Avenue ⓘ Seventh Avenue ⓘ Sixth Avenue ⓘ |
| hasBorough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
hospitality
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office ⓘ retail ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial corridor
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retail corridor ⓘ tourist destination ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Empire State Building
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Macy’s Herald Square ⓘ
linked to:
Macy's
Manhattan Mall vicinity ⓘ Penn Station vicinity ⓘ |
| hasNotableBuilding |
Empire State Building
ⓘ
Macy’s flagship store at Herald Square ⓘ
linked to:
Macy's
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| hasNumberingSystem |
West 34th Street addresses increase westward from Fifth Avenue
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linked to:
West 34th Street
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| hasPostalCity | New York ⓘ |
| hasUrbanCharacter |
high-density commercial
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mixed-use ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Manhattan numbered streets system
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linked to:
Manhattan street grid
|
| knownFor |
Empire State Building
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dense commercial activity ⓘ landmark buildings ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
Midtown Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| partOf | Manhattan street grid ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Herald Square area
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linked to:
Herald Square
Koreatown, Manhattan ⓘ
linked to:
Koreatown
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| servedBy |
34th Street–Herald Square subway station
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linked to:
34th Street–Herald Square station
34th Street–Penn Station subway stations ⓘ New York City Subway ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | Empire State Building observatory access vicinity ⓘ |
| transportRole | major crosstown route in Midtown Manhattan ⓘ |
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: West 34th Street Description of subject: West 34th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its dense commercial activity and landmark buildings, including the Empire State Building.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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