Avenue Joffre
E740190
Avenue Joffre was the former French Concession-era name of what is now Huaihai Middle Road, a major commercial and historical thoroughfare in central Shanghai.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Avenue Joffre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8532025 — 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: Avenue Joffre Context triple: [Huaihai Middle Road, formerName, Avenue Joffre]
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Avenue Foch
Avenue Foch is one of Paris’s grandest and widest boulevards, known for its upscale residences, embassies, and proximity to the Arc de Triomphe and the Bois de Boulogne.
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B.
Boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr
Boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr is a major boulevard in Paris, France, located in the 17th arrondissement near Porte Maillot and forming part of the city’s western road network.
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C.
Avenue de Verdun
Avenue de Verdun is a prominent street in central Nice, France, running near the seafront and bordering key landmarks such as the Jardin Albert Ier.
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D.
Boulevard Bessières
Boulevard Bessières is a major urban thoroughfare in the northwestern part of Paris, France, forming part of the city’s outer boulevards near Porte de Clichy.
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E.
Avenue Mac-Mahon
Avenue Mac-Mahon is a prominent Parisian avenue in the 17th arrondissement that radiates from the Arc de Triomphe and forms part of the historic star-shaped street layout around Place Charles-de-Gaulle.
- 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: Avenue Joffre Target entity description: Avenue Joffre was the former French Concession-era name of what is now Huaihai Middle Road, a major commercial and historical thoroughfare in central Shanghai.
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A.
Avenue Foch
Avenue Foch is one of Paris’s grandest and widest boulevards, known for its upscale residences, embassies, and proximity to the Arc de Triomphe and the Bois de Boulogne.
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B.
Boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr
Boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr is a major boulevard in Paris, France, located in the 17th arrondissement near Porte Maillot and forming part of the city’s western road network.
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C.
Avenue de Verdun
Avenue de Verdun is a prominent street in central Nice, France, running near the seafront and bordering key landmarks such as the Jardin Albert Ier.
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D.
Boulevard Bessières
Boulevard Bessières is a major urban thoroughfare in the northwestern part of Paris, France, forming part of the city’s outer boulevards near Porte de Clichy.
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E.
Avenue Mac-Mahon
Avenue Mac-Mahon is a prominent Parisian avenue in the 17th arrondissement that radiates from the Arc de Triomphe and forms part of the historic star-shaped street layout around Place Charles-de-Gaulle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical street name
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French presence in Shanghai
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Shanghai modern history ⓘ |
| currentName | Huaihai Middle Road ⓘ |
| followsDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Huaihai Middle Road ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
historically significant thoroughfare
ⓘ
major commercial street ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | French colonial urban planning ⓘ |
| hasStreetType | avenue ⓘ |
| hasUrbanFunction |
cultural corridor
ⓘ
shopping street ⓘ |
| hasUse |
commercial thoroughfare
ⓘ
residential street ⓘ transportation corridor ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | French Concession era ⓘ |
| isPartOf | central Shanghai road system ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
China
ⓘ
French Concession, Shanghai ⓘ
linked to:
Shanghai French Concession
Shanghai ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Huangpu District, Shanghai
ⓘ
Xuhui District, Shanghai ⓘ
linked to:
Xuhui District
|
| namedAfter | Joseph Joffre ⓘ |
| partOf | Shanghai French Concession road network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
former French Concession area of Shanghai
ⓘ
linked to:
Former French Concession
|
| replacedByName |
Huaihai Middle Road
ⓘ
Huaihai Road ⓘ
linked to:
Huaihai Middle Road
|
| status | former official name ⓘ |
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: Avenue Joffre Description of subject: Avenue Joffre was the former French Concession-era name of what is now Huaihai Middle Road, a major commercial and historical thoroughfare in central Shanghai.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.