Folsom Street
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Folsom Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for its industrial history, nightlife, and the annual Folsom Street Fair celebrating leather and BDSM subcultures.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Folsom Street canonical | 4 |
| Folsom Street (San Francisco) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9164516 — 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: Folsom Street Context triple: [Rincon Park, adjacentTo, Folsom Street]
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A.
Mulberry Street
Mulberry Street is a historic thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan best known as the heart of New York City's Little Italy and a popular destination for Italian restaurants and cultural festivals.
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B.
Buena Vista Street
Buena Vista Street is a themed entry area at Disney California Adventure Park designed to evoke 1920s–1930s Los Angeles at the time of Walt Disney’s arrival.
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C.
San Francisco Street
San Francisco Street is a historic thoroughfare within the Santa Fe Historic District, known for its traditional Southwestern architecture, cultural landmarks, and proximity to Santa Fe’s central plaza.
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D.
Sacramento Street
Sacramento Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, known for running through prominent neighborhoods such as Nob Hill and the Financial District.
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E.
Bush Street
Bush Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco that runs through the city’s Financial District and connects several prominent downtown 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: Folsom Street Target entity description: Folsom Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for its industrial history, nightlife, and the annual Folsom Street Fair celebrating leather and BDSM subcultures.
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A.
Mulberry Street
Mulberry Street is a historic thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan best known as the heart of New York City's Little Italy and a popular destination for Italian restaurants and cultural festivals.
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B.
Buena Vista Street
Buena Vista Street is a themed entry area at Disney California Adventure Park designed to evoke 1920s–1930s Los Angeles at the time of Walt Disney’s arrival.
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C.
San Francisco Street
San Francisco Street is a historic thoroughfare within the Santa Fe Historic District, known for its traditional Southwestern architecture, cultural landmarks, and proximity to Santa Fe’s central plaza.
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D.
Sacramento Street
Sacramento Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, known for running through prominent neighborhoods such as Nob Hill and the Financial District.
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E.
Bush Street
Bush Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco that runs through the city’s Financial District and connects several prominent downtown neighborhoods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual festival
ⓘ
street ⓘ street fair ⓘ thoroughfare ⓘ |
| associatedWithCommunity |
BDSM community
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LGBTQ+ community ⓘ leather community ⓘ |
| associatedWithNeighborhood | SoMa ⓘ |
| attracts |
BDSM enthusiasts
ⓘ
LGBTQ+ visitors ⓘ leather subculture participants ⓘ tourists ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | center of leather and kink culture in San Francisco ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
nightlife industry
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalCharacter | industrial corridor ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
bars
ⓘ
clubs ⓘ nightlife venues ⓘ |
| hasLandUseHistory | industrial ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
BDSM subculture
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LGBTQ+ culture ⓘ industrial history ⓘ leather subculture ⓘ nightlife ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
BDSM subculture
ⓘ
kink culture ⓘ leather subculture ⓘ |
| hosts | Folsom Street Fair ⓘ |
| isPartOfStreetGrid | San Francisco street grid ⓘ |
| knownForEvent | Folsom Street Fair ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
San Francisco ⓘ San Francisco ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedOn | Folsom Street ⓘ |
| partOf |
South of Market
ⓘ
linked to:
South of Market (SoMa)
|
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| targetAudience | LGBTQ+ community ⓘ |
| transportFunction | major arterial road ⓘ |
| typicalMonthHeld | September ⓘ |
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: Folsom Street Description of subject: Folsom Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for its industrial history, nightlife, and the annual Folsom Street Fair celebrating leather and BDSM subcultures.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.