Wisteria Lane
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Wisteria Lane is the fictional suburban street that serves as the primary setting for the television series "Desperate Housewives."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wisteria Lane canonical | 6 |
| Wisteria Lane (fictional street) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12976680 — 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: Wisteria Lane Context triple: [Desperate Housewives (theme), associatedWith, Wisteria Lane]
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A.
Rosemary Lane
Rosemary Lane was an American actress and singer best known as one of the Lane Sisters, who appeared in several popular Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Cul-de-sac
Cul-de-sac is a 1966 psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, known for its darkly comic tone and claustrophobic exploration of power dynamics among a small group of characters.
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C.
Laurelwood
Laurelwood was a former community or tract in the San Fernando Valley that was later incorporated into what is now known as Studio City in Los Angeles, California.
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D.
Friend Street
Friend Street is a short downtown Boston street located near Causeway Street, close to North Station and the TD Garden arena.
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E.
Magnolia Lane
Magnolia Lane is the iconic tree-lined driveway leading from the entrance gate to the clubhouse at Augusta National Golf Club.
- 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: Wisteria Lane Target entity description: Wisteria Lane is the fictional suburban street that serves as the primary setting for the television series "Desperate Housewives."
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A.
Rosemary Lane
Rosemary Lane was an American actress and singer best known as one of the Lane Sisters, who appeared in several popular Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Cul-de-sac
Cul-de-sac is a 1966 psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, known for its darkly comic tone and claustrophobic exploration of power dynamics among a small group of characters.
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C.
Laurelwood
Laurelwood was a former community or tract in the San Fernando Valley that was later incorporated into what is now known as Studio City in Los Angeles, California.
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D.
Friend Street
Friend Street is a short downtown Boston street located near Causeway Street, close to North Station and the TD Garden arena.
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E.
Magnolia Lane
Magnolia Lane is the iconic tree-lined driveway leading from the entrance gate to the clubhouse at Augusta National Golf Club.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional street ⓘ television setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Desperate Housewives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTimePeriod | early 2000s American suburbia ⓘ |
| backlotLocatedAt | Universal Studios Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBroadcastContext | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Marc Cherry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceSeriesPremiere | Pilot (Desperate Housewives) GENERATED ⓘ |
| genreContext |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ |
| hasFictionalAmenity |
cul-de-sac
ⓘ
nearby church ⓘ nearby school ⓘ park ⓘ |
| hasFictionalHouseNumber |
4355
ⓘ
4356 ⓘ 4358 ⓘ 4362 ⓘ 4363 ⓘ 4364 ⓘ 4365 ⓘ 4368 ⓘ 4370 ⓘ 4372 ⓘ |
| hasFictionalResident |
Bree Van de Kamp
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carlos Solis NERFINISHED ⓘ Edie Britt NERFINISHED ⓘ Gabrielle Solis NERFINISHED ⓘ Katherine Mayfair NERFINISHED ⓘ Lynette Scavo NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Alice Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Delfino NERFINISHED ⓘ Orson Hodge NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Renee Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Scavo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginalWorkContext | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional |
Eagle State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fairview NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | depicts secrets and scandals of suburban life ⓘ |
| networkContext | ABC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Desperate Housewives franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySettingOf | Desperate Housewives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setOnBacklot | Colonial Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| streetNumberingStyle | American suburban ⓘ |
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: Wisteria Lane Description of subject: Wisteria Lane is the fictional suburban street that serves as the primary setting for the television series "Desperate Housewives."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wisteria Lane (fictional street)