14th Street SW
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14th Street SW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the city’s southwest quadrant and connecting key federal and downtown areas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 14th Street SW canonical | 3 |
| 14th Street (Washington, D.C.) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1756412 — 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: 14th Street SW Context triple: [Independence Avenue, hasJunctionWith, 14th Street SW]
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A.
14th Street NW
14th Street NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., known for its vibrant mix of restaurants, shops, nightlife, and historic architecture.
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B.
15th Street NW
15th Street NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the downtown area near the National Mall and several key federal landmarks.
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C.
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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D.
19th Street NW
19th Street NW is a major north–south street in Washington, D.C., running through several neighborhoods including the Dupont Circle area.
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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: 14th Street SW Target entity description: 14th Street SW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the city’s southwest quadrant and connecting key federal and downtown areas.
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A.
14th Street NW
14th Street NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., known for its vibrant mix of restaurants, shops, nightlife, and historic architecture.
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B.
15th Street NW
15th Street NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the downtown area near the National Mall and several key federal landmarks.
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C.
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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D.
19th Street NW
19th Street NW is a major north–south street in Washington, D.C., running through several neighborhoods including the Dupont Circle area.
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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 (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| connects |
downtown Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
linked to:
Downtown Washington, D.C.
federal areas of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem |
L’Enfant Plan street layout
ⓘ
linked to:
L’Enfant Plan for Washington, D.C.
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
major traffic artery
ⓘ
urban connector route ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | multiple lanes in each direction (in major segments) ⓘ |
| hasNumberingSystem | building numbers increasing northward ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | perpendicular to east–west lettered streets ⓘ |
| hasQuadrantDesignation | SW ⓘ |
| isSegmentOf |
14th Street (Washington, D.C.)
ⓘ
linked to:
14th Street SW
|
| locatedIn |
Southwest Quadrant, Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | District Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| namedAfter | 14th Street (Washington, D.C. numbering system) ⓘ |
| partOf |
Washington, D.C. numbered street system
ⓘ
street grid of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| roadType | urban arterial road ⓘ |
| servesArea |
Southwest Federal Center vicinity
ⓘ
downtown Washington, D.C. core ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local access within Southwest D.C.
ⓘ
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: 14th Street SW Description of subject: 14th Street SW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the city’s southwest quadrant and connecting key federal and downtown areas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 14th Street SW