Market Street
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Market Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco that serves as the city’s primary downtown artery and commercial spine, running through areas including the Financial District.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Market Street canonical | 56 |
| Market Street, San Francisco | 4 |
| Lombard Street | 1 |
| Market Street (San Francisco) | 1 |
| Market Street corridor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T343157 — 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: Market Street Context triple: [Financial District (San Francisco), hasStreet, Market Street]
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A.
Market Street
Market Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Philadelphia known for its commercial activity, transit connections, and role as a central artery of the city.
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B.
Market Street
Market Street is a major shopping thoroughfare in Manchester city centre, known for its busy pedestrian zone and high street retail stores.
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C.
California Street
California Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for its steep hills, iconic views, and historic cable car line running through key downtown and Nob Hill areas.
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D.
Market Street and Castro Street
Market Street and Castro Street is a major intersection in San Francisco’s Castro District, known as a historic center of LGBTQ+ culture and a key transit and commercial hub.
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E.
Monroe Street
Monroe Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Chicago, Illinois, running through the city’s central business and cultural districts.
- 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: Market Street Target entity description: Market Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco that serves as the city’s primary downtown artery and commercial spine, running through areas including the Financial District.
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A.
Market Street
Market Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Philadelphia known for its commercial activity, transit connections, and role as a central artery of the city.
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B.
Market Street
Market Street is a major shopping thoroughfare in Manchester city centre, known for its busy pedestrian zone and high street retail stores.
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C.
California Street
California Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for its steep hills, iconic views, and historic cable car line running through key downtown and Nob Hill areas.
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D.
Market Street and Castro Street
Market Street and Castro Street is a major intersection in San Francisco’s Castro District, known as a historic center of LGBTQ+ culture and a key transit and commercial hub.
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E.
Monroe Street
Monroe Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Chicago, Illinois, running through the city’s central business and cultural districts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ transportation corridor ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFunction |
civic axis
ⓘ
commercial corridor ⓘ transit spine ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRole |
focus of post–1906 earthquake reconstruction
ⓘ
traditional parade route in San Francisco ⓘ |
| hasLaneType | multi-lane roadway ⓘ |
| hasModePriority |
bicycles
ⓘ
pedestrians ⓘ transit ⓘ |
| hasNameEtymology | named for marketplace or commercial function ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransit |
Bay Area Rapid Transit
ⓘ
linked to:
BART
Muni Metro ⓘ
linked to:
Muni Metro lines
Muni bus lines ⓘ Muni trolleybus lines ⓘ historic streetcar F Market & Wharves ⓘ
linked to:
F Market & Wharves
|
| hasRegulation | private automobiles restricted on central segments ⓘ |
| isCommercialAreaFor | Financial District (San Francisco) ⓘ |
| isEconomicCenterFor |
downtown San Francisco
ⓘ
linked to:
Downtown San Francisco
|
| isMajorThoroughfareOf | San Francisco ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic commercial activity
ⓘ
public transit corridor ⓘ role as central artery of San Francisco’s street grid ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
San Francisco ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| orientation | northeast–southwest ⓘ |
| partOf | San Francisco street network ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Ferry Building (San Francisco)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ferry Building
San Francisco City Hall ⓘ Union Square (San Francisco) ⓘ
linked to:
Union Square
|
| runsThrough |
Civic Center (San Francisco)
ⓘ
linked to:
Civic Center, San Francisco
Downtown San Francisco ⓘ Financial District (San Francisco) ⓘ Mid-Market (San Francisco) ⓘ
linked to:
Mid-Market, San Francisco
SoMa (San Francisco) ⓘ
linked to:
South of Market (SoMa)
The Castro (San Francisco) ⓘ |
| servesAs |
commercial spine of San Francisco
ⓘ
primary downtown artery of San Francisco ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| terminus |
Castro Street (San Francisco)
ⓘ
The Embarcadero ⓘ |
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: Market Street Description of subject: Market Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco that serves as the city’s primary downtown artery and commercial spine, running through areas including the Financial District.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Financial District
linked to: Market Street
linked to: Market Street
linked to: Market Street
subject linked to:
South of Market (SoMa)
linked to: Market Street
subject linked to:
Civic Center/UN Plaza BART station
linked to: Market Street
subject linked to:
BART Embarcadero Station
subject linked to:
BART Embarcadero Station
subject linked to:
Drumm Street, San Francisco
linked to: Market Street