Yancy Street, New York City
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Yancy Street, New York City is a fictional, rough-and-tumble Lower East Side neighborhood in Marvel Comics, best known as the childhood home of Ben Grimm (the Thing) and the source of the prank-loving Yancy Street Gang.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yancy Street, New York City canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12996092 — 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.
Target entity: Yancy Street, New York City Context triple: [Ben Grimm, baseOfOperations, Yancy Street, New York City]
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Varick Street
Varick Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan, New York City, running through the Hudson Square and SoHo areas and carrying part of the city's busy traffic grid.
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Five Points, Manhattan
Five Points, Manhattan was a notorious 19th-century New York City neighborhood known for its extreme poverty, crime, and dense immigrant population.
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Great Jones Street, Manhattan
Great Jones Street, Manhattan is a short but historically rich street in New York City’s NoHo neighborhood, known for its cast-iron architecture, artistic legacy, and proximity to the Bowery and Lafayette Street.
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Manhattan at 8th Avenue
Manhattan at 8th Avenue is a New York City Subway station complex in Midtown Manhattan serving multiple lines along Eighth Avenue.
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Sugar Hill, Manhattan
Sugar Hill, Manhattan is a historic, affluent neighborhood in Harlem known for its elegant rowhouses and its role as a center of African-American culture during the Harlem Renaissance.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Yancy Street, New York City Target entity description: Yancy Street, New York City is a fictional, rough-and-tumble Lower East Side neighborhood in Marvel Comics, best known as the childhood home of Ben Grimm (the Thing) and the source of the prank-loving Yancy Street Gang.
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A.
Varick Street
Varick Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan, New York City, running through the Hudson Square and SoHo areas and carrying part of the city's busy traffic grid.
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B.
Five Points, Manhattan
Five Points, Manhattan was a notorious 19th-century New York City neighborhood known for its extreme poverty, crime, and dense immigrant population.
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C.
Great Jones Street, Manhattan
Great Jones Street, Manhattan is a short but historically rich street in New York City’s NoHo neighborhood, known for its cast-iron architecture, artistic legacy, and proximity to the Bowery and Lafayette Street.
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D.
Manhattan at 8th Avenue
Manhattan at 8th Avenue is a New York City Subway station complex in Midtown Manhattan serving multiple lines along Eighth Avenue.
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E.
Sugar Hill, Manhattan
Sugar Hill, Manhattan is a historic, affluent neighborhood in Harlem known for its elegant rowhouses and its role as a center of African-American culture during the Harlem Renaissance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Marvel Comics location
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fictional neighborhood ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Fantastic Four comics
NERFINISHED
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Marvel Comics stories set in New York City ⓘ |
| associatedGroup | Yancy Street Gang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithArea | Lower East Side NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCreator |
Jack Kirby
NERFINISHED
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Stan Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedToCharacter |
Alicia Masters
NERFINISHED
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Johnny Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedToTeam | Fantastic Four NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryInFiction | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedAs | tenement-lined street ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Marvel Universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn | Fantastic Four #4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearedInSeries | Fantastic Four NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | superhero fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalCulture | prank-loving street gang culture ⓘ |
| hasFictionalGang | Yancy Street Gang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | New York City Lower East Side NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being childhood home of Ben Grimm
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being home turf of the Yancy Street Gang ⓘ prank culture ⓘ rough-and-tumble reputation ⓘ working-class character ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalBorough | Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | comic books ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
to emphasize Ben Grimm’s tough upbringing
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to provide comic relief through pranks on the Thing ⓘ |
| notableForRelationship | love-hate relationship with Ben Grimm GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableResident |
Ben Grimm
NERFINISHED
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Thing ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalCity | Marvel’s version of New York City ⓘ |
| publicationFormat | serialized comics ⓘ |
| publisher | Marvel Comics ⓘ |
| settingType | residential neighborhood ⓘ |
| targetAudience | superhero comic readers ⓘ |
| theme |
urban street life
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working-class New York identity ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Yancy Street, New York City Description of subject: Yancy Street, New York City is a fictional, rough-and-tumble Lower East Side neighborhood in Marvel Comics, best known as the childhood home of Ben Grimm (the Thing) and the source of the prank-loving Yancy Street Gang.
Referenced by (2)
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