Broad Street
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Broad Street is a historically significant thoroughfare in Selma, Alabama, known for its role in the civil rights movement and its collection of notable historic buildings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broad Street canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2467378 — 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: Broad Street Context triple: [Selma Historic District, contains, Broad Street]
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A.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a former elevated terminal station in Lower Manhattan that once served as the southern terminus for New York City's BMT Nassau Street Line J train.
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B.
Broad Street Extension
Broad Street Extension is a segment of the Newark Light Rail system that connects Newark Penn Station with Newark Broad Street Station, enhancing transit access through downtown Newark, New Jersey.
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C.
Broad Street (Philadelphia)
Broad Street (Philadelphia) is a major north–south thoroughfare and one of the city’s primary streets, known for landmarks like City Hall and the Avenue of the Arts.
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D.
Spring Street
Spring Street is a local roadway that intersects at Inman Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, contributing to the neighborhood’s dense urban street grid.
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E.
Broad Street Line
The Broad Street Line is a major north–south rapid transit subway line in Philadelphia operated by SEPTA, running primarily beneath Broad Street and serving key downtown and neighborhood destinations.
- 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: Broad Street Target entity description: Broad Street is a historically significant thoroughfare in Selma, Alabama, known for its role in the civil rights movement and its collection of notable historic buildings.
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A.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a former elevated terminal station in Lower Manhattan that once served as the southern terminus for New York City's BMT Nassau Street Line J train.
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B.
Broad Street Extension
Broad Street Extension is a segment of the Newark Light Rail system that connects Newark Penn Station with Newark Broad Street Station, enhancing transit access through downtown Newark, New Jersey.
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C.
Broad Street (Philadelphia)
Broad Street (Philadelphia) is a major north–south thoroughfare and one of the city’s primary streets, known for landmarks like City Hall and the Avenue of the Arts.
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D.
Spring Street
Spring Street is a local roadway that intersects at Inman Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, contributing to the neighborhood’s dense urban street grid.
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E.
Broad Street Line
The Broad Street Line is a major north–south rapid transit subway line in Philadelphia operated by SEPTA, running primarily beneath Broad Street and serving key downtown and neighborhood destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic district component
ⓘ
street ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | civil rights demonstrations in Selma ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeriod | civil rights era ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
19th-century commercial architecture
ⓘ
early 20th-century commercial architecture ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | symbolic space in narratives of the Selma civil rights struggle ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial corridor
ⓘ
transportation corridor ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | contributing property to a National Register of Historic Places district ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named Broad Street due to its width compared to other local streets ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
historic storefronts
ⓘ
multi-story brick commercial buildings ⓘ proximity to the Edmund Pettus Bridge ⓘ |
| hasRole | major thoroughfare in Selma ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
African American history
ⓘ
local history of Selma ⓘ urban development of Selma ⓘ |
| isMainAxisOf | downtown Selma ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the American civil rights movement
ⓘ
historic commercial buildings ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alabama
ⓘ
Dallas County, Alabama ⓘ Selma, Alabama ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| partOf | Selma Historic District ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civic functions
ⓘ
offices ⓘ retail businesses ⓘ |
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: Broad Street Description of subject: Broad Street is a historically significant thoroughfare in Selma, Alabama, known for its role in the civil rights movement and its collection of notable historic buildings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.