12th Street SW
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12th Street SW is a major north–south street in southwest Washington, D.C., running through the National Mall area and connecting several key federal buildings and landmarks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 12th Street SW canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1756414 — 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: 12th Street SW Context triple: [Independence Avenue, hasJunctionWith, 12th Street SW]
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A.
14th Street SW
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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B.
7th Street SW
7th Street SW is a major north–south street in southwest Washington, D.C., running through the National Mall area and connecting key federal buildings, museums, and government districts.
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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.
C Street SE
C Street SE is a street on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., located near the U.S. Capitol and served by the Capitol South Metro station.
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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: 12th Street SW Target entity description: 12th Street SW is a major north–south street in southwest Washington, D.C., running through the National Mall area and connecting several key federal buildings and landmarks.
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A.
14th Street SW
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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B.
7th Street SW
7th Street SW is a major north–south street in southwest Washington, D.C., running through the National Mall area and connecting key federal buildings, museums, and government districts.
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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.
C Street SE
C Street SE is a street on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., located near the U.S. Capitol and served by the Capitol South Metro station.
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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 (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road in Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
street ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
National Mall parkland
ⓘ
linked to:
National Mall
|
| connectedTo | 12th Street NW ⓘ |
| crosses |
Constitution Avenue NW
ⓘ
Independence Avenue SW ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasNumberingSystem | 12th Street in Washington, D.C. grid system ⓘ |
| hasQuadrantDesignation | SW ⓘ |
| hasTransportationFunction | urban arterial road ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southwest Quadrant, Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest Washington, D.C.
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| near |
National Archives Building
ⓘ
National Mall ⓘ Smithsonian National Museum of American History ⓘ
linked to:
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ⓘ
linked to:
National Museum of Natural History
U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters ⓘ |
| partOf | street grid of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
National Mall area
ⓘ
linked to:
National Mall
|
| servedBy | Smithsonian station (Washington Metro) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pedestrian access to federal buildings
ⓘ
vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| withinJurisdictionOf | District of Columbia Department of Transportation ⓘ |
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: 12th Street SW Description of subject: 12th Street SW is a major north–south street in southwest Washington, D.C., running through the National Mall area and connecting several key federal buildings and landmarks.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.