Porter Avenue
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Porter Avenue is a historic, Olmsted-designed boulevard in Buffalo, New York, that forms part of the city’s landmark park and parkway system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Porter Avenue canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T361544 — 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: Porter Avenue Context triple: [Buffalo park and parkway system, hasPart, Porter Avenue]
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A.
Highland Avenue
Highland Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Los Angeles best known for running through Hollywood and intersecting with Hollywood Boulevard near many of the city's iconic landmarks.
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B.
Lancaster Avenue
Lancaster Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Philadelphia that serves as a key commercial and transit corridor through the University City area and beyond.
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C.
Somerville Avenue
Somerville Avenue is a major street in Somerville, Massachusetts, running through areas such as Porter Square and serving as a key local commercial and transit corridor.
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D.
Concord Avenue
Concord Avenue is a principal roadway running through Belmont, Massachusetts, serving as a key thoroughfare in the Belmont Center area and its historic district.
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E.
Woodland Avenue
Woodland Avenue is a major street in Philadelphia that serves as a key corridor for SEPTA’s Subway–Surface trolley lines running at street level through West and Southwest Philadelphia.
- 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: Porter Avenue Target entity description: Porter Avenue is a historic, Olmsted-designed boulevard in Buffalo, New York, that forms part of the city’s landmark park and parkway system.
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A.
Highland Avenue
Highland Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Los Angeles best known for running through Hollywood and intersecting with Hollywood Boulevard near many of the city's iconic landmarks.
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B.
Lancaster Avenue
Lancaster Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Philadelphia that serves as a key commercial and transit corridor through the University City area and beyond.
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C.
Somerville Avenue
Somerville Avenue is a major street in Somerville, Massachusetts, running through areas such as Porter Square and serving as a key local commercial and transit corridor.
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D.
Concord Avenue
Concord Avenue is a principal roadway running through Belmont, Massachusetts, serving as a key thoroughfare in the Belmont Center area and its historic district.
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E.
Woodland Avenue
Woodland Avenue is a major street in Philadelphia that serves as a key corridor for SEPTA’s Subway–Surface trolley lines running at street level through West and Southwest Philadelphia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic boulevard
ⓘ
parkway ⓘ street ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Olmsted, Vaux & Co. ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Columbus Park (formerly Prospect Park, Buffalo)
ⓘ
Front Park ⓘ Kleinhans Music Hall vicinity ⓘ Niagara Street ⓘ Richmond Avenue ⓘ |
| dateOfDesign | late 19th century ⓘ |
| designedBy | Frederick Law Olmsted ⓘ |
| formsPartOf |
Olmsted park and parkway system of Buffalo
ⓘ
linked to:
Buffalo park and parkway system
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| hasCharacteristic |
historic streetscape
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residential frontage ⓘ tree-lined ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west orientation ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
scenic parkway
ⓘ
urban thoroughfare ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of a historic district ⓘ |
| hasTransportationUse |
bicycle circulation
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motor vehicle traffic ⓘ pedestrian circulation ⓘ |
| hasUrbanRole | link between waterfront and interior neighborhoods of Buffalo ⓘ |
| isComponentOf | Buffalo’s historic landscape architecture network ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Buffalo, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Buffalo
Erie County, New York ⓘ New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| maintainedBy |
City of Buffalo
ⓘ
linked to:
Buffalo
|
| namedAfter | Peter B. Porter ⓘ |
| near |
Lake Erie waterfront
ⓘ
linked to:
Cleveland harbor
Peace Bridge ⓘ |
| partOf |
Buffalo Olmsted Parks & Parkways historic district
ⓘ
linked to:
Buffalo park and parkway system
Buffalo park and parkway system ⓘ Buffalo’s radial and parkway street plan conceived by Olmsted ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Porter Avenue Description of subject: Porter Avenue is a historic, Olmsted-designed boulevard in Buffalo, New York, that forms part of the city’s landmark park and parkway system.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.