Houston Street
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Houston Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan, New York City, that serves as a key dividing line between downtown and the neighborhoods to its north.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Houston Street canonical | 28 |
| East Houston Street | 2 |
| Houston Street area | 1 |
| West Houston Street | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1590768 — 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: Houston Street Context triple: [First Avenue, crosses, Houston Street]
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A.
Houston Street
Houston Street is a major thoroughfare in downtown Dallas, Texas, historically notable for its proximity to Dealey Plaza and the site of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
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B.
Van Dorn Street
Van Dorn Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Alexandria, Virginia, serving residential, commercial, and commuter traffic in the city’s West End.
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C.
Commerce Street
Commerce Street is a major thoroughfare in downtown Dallas, Texas, known for running through historic areas including Dealey Plaza.
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D.
River Street
River Street is a roadway in Cambridge’s city center that serves as a key connector through the urban core.
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E.
Battery Street
Battery Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in San Francisco’s Financial District, known for its dense concentration of office buildings and proximity to the city’s downtown waterfront.
- 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: Houston Street Target entity description: Houston Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan, New York City, that serves as a key dividing line between downtown and the neighborhoods to its north.
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A.
Houston Street
Houston Street is a major thoroughfare in downtown Dallas, Texas, historically notable for its proximity to Dealey Plaza and the site of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
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B.
Van Dorn Street
Van Dorn Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Alexandria, Virginia, serving residential, commercial, and commuter traffic in the city’s West End.
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C.
Commerce Street
Commerce Street is a major thoroughfare in downtown Dallas, Texas, known for running through historic areas including Dealey Plaza.
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D.
River Street
River Street is a roadway in Cambridge’s city center that serves as a key connector through the urban core.
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E.
Battery Street
Battery Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in San Francisco’s Financial District, known for its dense concentration of office buildings and proximity to the city’s downtown waterfront.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Houston Street Description of subject: Houston Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan, New York City, that serves as a key dividing line between downtown and the neighborhoods to its north.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Houston Street
subject linked to:
First Avenue in Manhattan
subject linked to:
First Avenue in Manhattan
linked to: Houston Street
linked to: Houston Street
linked to: Houston Street