Washington Square
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Washington Square is a historic public park in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, known for its iconic arch, central fountain, and role as a cultural and social hub near New York University.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Washington Square canonical | 5 |
| Washington Square, Manhattan | 3 |
| Washington Square, New York City | 2 |
| Washington Square area | 1 |
| Washington Square in Winter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2540069 — 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: Washington Square Context triple: [New York University Main Building, locatedIn, Washington Square]
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Washington Square
Washington Square is a historic public park in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, known as a central gathering spot surrounded by cafes, churches, and classic city views.
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Washington Square
Washington Square is a vibrant commercial and residential neighborhood in Brookline, Massachusetts, known for its restaurants, shops, and access to public transit.
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Washington Square
Washington Square is a historic street and surrounding area in Salem, Massachusetts, known for encircling the Salem Common and featuring notable 19th-century architecture.
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Washington Square
Washington Square is a historic public park in Philadelphia that serves as one of the original five city squares planned by William Penn and a memorial site honoring Revolutionary War soldiers and the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier.
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Washington Square
Washington Square is an 1880 novel by Henry James that explores themes of family, inheritance, and emotional manipulation through the quiet tragedy of a shy heiress in 19th-century New York City.
- 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: Washington Square Target entity description: Washington Square is a historic public park in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, known for its iconic arch, central fountain, and role as a cultural and social hub near New York University.
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Washington Square
Washington Square is a historic public park in Philadelphia that serves as one of the original five city squares planned by William Penn and a memorial site honoring Revolutionary War soldiers and the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier.
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Washington Square
Washington Square is a historic public park in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, known as a central gathering spot surrounded by cafes, churches, and classic city views.
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C.
Washington Square
Washington Square is an 1880 novel by Henry James that explores themes of family, inheritance, and emotional manipulation through the quiet tragedy of a shy heiress in 19th-century New York City.
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Washington Square
Washington Square is a vibrant commercial and residential neighborhood in Brookline, Massachusetts, known for its restaurants, shops, and access to public transit.
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Washington Square
Washington Square is a historic street and surrounding area in Salem, Massachusetts, known for encircling the Salem Common and featuring notable 19th-century architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Washington Square Description of subject: Washington Square is a historic public park in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, known for its iconic arch, central fountain, and role as a cultural and social hub near New York University.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
New York University Main Building (now Silver Center)
linked to: Washington Square
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subject linked to:
Catherine Sloper is the daughter of Dr. Austin Sloper
linked to: Washington Square
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