16th Street
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16th Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lined with commercial, residential, and institutional buildings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 16th Street canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5429624 — 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: 16th Street Context triple: [15–16th & Locust station, hasExitTo, 16th Street]
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A.
6th Street
6th Street is a notable thoroughfare in Philadelphia’s historic district, running past landmarks such as Independence Square and other key sites tied to the American Revolution.
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B.
18th Street
18th Street is a primary thoroughfare running through the Lower West Side neighborhood of New York City, known for its mix of residential buildings, local businesses, and urban streetscape.
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C.
North 24th Street
North 24th Street is a notable north–south thoroughfare in Omaha, Nebraska, historically recognized as a commercial and cultural hub of the city’s African American community.
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D.
Independence Avenue
Independence Avenue is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running along the southern edge of the National Mall and lined with prominent federal buildings and monuments.
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E.
14th Street
14th Street is a New York City Subway station complex in Manhattan that serves the 1 train along with several other lines.
- 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: 16th Street Target entity description: 16th Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lined with commercial, residential, and institutional buildings.
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A.
6th Street
6th Street is a notable thoroughfare in Philadelphia’s historic district, running past landmarks such as Independence Square and other key sites tied to the American Revolution.
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B.
18th Street
18th Street is a primary thoroughfare running through the Lower West Side neighborhood of New York City, known for its mix of residential buildings, local businesses, and urban streetscape.
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C.
North 24th Street
North 24th Street is a notable north–south thoroughfare in Omaha, Nebraska, historically recognized as a commercial and cultural hub of the city’s African American community.
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D.
Independence Avenue
Independence Avenue is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running along the southern edge of the National Mall and lined with prominent federal buildings and monuments.
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E.
14th Street
14th Street is a New York City Subway station complex in Manhattan that serves the 1 train along with several other lines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasBuildingTypeAlong |
commercial building
ⓘ
institutional building ⓘ residential building ⓘ |
| hasFunction | urban arterial road ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple traffic lanes ⓘ |
| hasOrientation |
parallel to 15th Street (Philadelphia)
ⓘ
parallel to 17th Street (Philadelphia) ⓘ |
| hasStreetscape |
high-rise buildings
ⓘ
mid-rise buildings ⓘ rowhouses ⓘ |
| hasTransportRole |
connector between Center City neighborhoods
ⓘ
local access route ⓘ |
| hasUrbanContext | downtown business district of Philadelphia ⓘ |
| hasZoningAlong | mixed-use ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Center City, Philadelphia
ⓘ
linked to:
Center City Philadelphia
Pennsylvania ⓘ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| partOf | street grid of Center City Philadelphia ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pedestrian access
ⓘ
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: 16th Street Description of subject: 16th Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lined with commercial, residential, and institutional buildings.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.