Northwest street numbering system of Washington, D.C.
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The Northwest street numbering system of Washington, D.C. is the grid-based address and street designation scheme used in the city's Northwest quadrant, organizing streets and numbers relative to the U.S. Capitol.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Northwest street numbering system of Washington, D.C. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6258124 — 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: Northwest street numbering system of Washington, D.C. Context triple: [23rd Street NW, hasCoordinateSystem, Northwest street numbering system of Washington, D.C.]
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A.
O Street NW
O Street NW is a street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, forming part of the city’s lettered street grid.
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B.
Florida Avenue NE, Washington, D.C.
Florida Avenue NE in Washington, D.C. is a major east–west thoroughfare that borders the campus of Gallaudet University, the historic federally chartered university for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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C.
Upshur Street NW
Upshur Street NW is a notable residential and commercial street in Washington, D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood, known for its local shops, restaurants, and community-focused atmosphere.
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D.
Irving Street NW
Irving Street NW is a street in Washington, D.C.’s Columbia Heights neighborhood that serves as one of the local access points to the surrounding urban and transit area.
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E.
East Capitol Street NE
East Capitol Street NE is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., that runs by the U.S. Capitol and continues through several northeastern neighborhoods.
- 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: Northwest street numbering system of Washington, D.C. Target entity description: The Northwest street numbering system of Washington, D.C. is the grid-based address and street designation scheme used in the city's Northwest quadrant, organizing streets and numbers relative to the U.S. Capitol.
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A.
O Street NW
O Street NW is a street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, forming part of the city’s lettered street grid.
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B.
Florida Avenue NE, Washington, D.C.
Florida Avenue NE in Washington, D.C. is a major east–west thoroughfare that borders the campus of Gallaudet University, the historic federally chartered university for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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C.
Upshur Street NW
Upshur Street NW is a notable residential and commercial street in Washington, D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood, known for its local shops, restaurants, and community-focused atmosphere.
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D.
Irving Street NW
Irving Street NW is a street in Washington, D.C.’s Columbia Heights neighborhood that serves as one of the local access points to the surrounding urban and transit area.
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E.
East Capitol Street NE
East Capitol Street NE is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., that runs by the U.S. Capitol and continues through several northeastern neighborhoods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street addressing system
ⓘ
urban grid system ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
linked to:
Northwest Washington, D.C.
|
| basedOnPlanBy | Pierre Charles L’Enfant ⓘ |
| blockLengthApproximation | 100 address numbers per block ⓘ |
| coordinateOrigin |
U.S. Capitol building
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Capitol
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| defines |
house numbers in Northwest Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
street names in Northwest Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| differsFrom |
Southeast street numbering system of Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
Southwest street numbering system of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| eastWestStreetsNamingPattern | alphabetical letters ⓘ |
| evenNumbersLocatedOn | north and west sides of streets ⓘ |
| geographicScope | north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street ⓘ |
| governsAddressFormat | "[number] [street name] NW" ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
quadrant-based street suffixes
ⓘ
systematic block numbering tied to distance from Capitol ⓘ |
| houseNumberingIncreasesAlong |
east–west streets going west
ⓘ
north–south streets going north ⓘ |
| houseNumberingIncreasesWithDistanceFrom |
U.S. Capitol
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Capitol
|
| implementedIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| includesSpecialCaseAreas |
Downtown Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
Georgetown ⓘ |
| northSouthStreetsNamingPattern | ordinal numbers ⓘ |
| oddNumbersLocatedOn | south and east sides of streets ⓘ |
| organizedAround | United States Capitol ⓘ |
| partOf | street addressing system of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| primaryAxisReference |
East Capitol Street
ⓘ
linked to:
East Capitol Street NE
North Capitol Street ⓘ South Capitol Street ⓘ
linked to:
South Capitol Street SE
West Capitol Street ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose | spatial organization of addresses in Northwest Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| quadrantBoundary |
East Capitol Street
ⓘ
linked to:
East Capitol Street NE
National Mall vicinity ⓘ
linked to:
United States Capitol grounds
North Capitol Street ⓘ South Capitol Street ⓘ
linked to:
South Capitol Street SE
|
| sharesPatternWith | Northeast street numbering system of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| streetType |
lettered east–west streets
ⓘ
numbered north–south streets ⓘ state-named diagonal avenues ⓘ |
| usedBy |
District of Columbia government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of the District of Columbia
United States Postal Service ⓘ emergency services in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| usedFor |
mail delivery in Northwest Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
navigation in Northwest Washington, D.C. ⓘ property identification in Northwest Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| usesGridBasedLayout | true ⓘ |
| usesOddEvenConvention | true ⓘ |
| usesQuadrantSuffix | NW ⓘ |
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: Northwest street numbering system of Washington, D.C. Description of subject: The Northwest street numbering system of Washington, D.C. is the grid-based address and street designation scheme used in the city's Northwest quadrant, organizing streets and numbers relative to the U.S. Capitol.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.