Nostrand Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, demolished)
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Nostrand Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, demolished) was a former elevated New York City Subway station on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line in Brooklyn that was closed and torn down as part of the line’s mid-20th-century reductions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nostrand Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, demolished) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13080638 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nostrand Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, demolished) Context triple: [Nostrand Avenue, hasSubwayStation, Nostrand Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, demolished)]
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A.
Nostrand Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)
Nostrand Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line) is a local New York City Subway station in Brooklyn serving the A and C trains on the IND Fulton Street Line.
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B.
Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)
Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) is a New York City Subway station on the L train in Brooklyn.
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C.
Church Avenue (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line)
Church Avenue (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line) is a local New York City Subway station in Brooklyn served by the 2 and 5 trains.
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D.
18th Avenue (BMT West End Line)
18th Avenue (BMT West End Line) is a local New York City Subway station in Brooklyn located along the BMT West End Line.
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E.
New Lots Avenue (IRT New Lots Line)
New Lots Avenue (IRT New Lots Line) is the eastern terminal station of the New York City Subway's IRT New Lots Line in Brooklyn, serving as the line's final stop.
- 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: Nostrand Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, demolished) Target entity description: Nostrand Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, demolished) was a former elevated New York City Subway station on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line in Brooklyn that was closed and torn down as part of the line’s mid-20th-century reductions.
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A.
Nostrand Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)
Nostrand Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line) is a local New York City Subway station in Brooklyn serving the A and C trains on the IND Fulton Street Line.
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B.
Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)
Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) is a New York City Subway station on the L train in Brooklyn.
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C.
Church Avenue (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line)
Church Avenue (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line) is a local New York City Subway station in Brooklyn served by the 2 and 5 trains.
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D.
18th Avenue (BMT West End Line)
18th Avenue (BMT West End Line) is a local New York City Subway station in Brooklyn located along the BMT West End Line.
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E.
New Lots Avenue (IRT New Lots Line)
New Lots Avenue (IRT New Lots Line) is the eastern terminal station of the New York City Subway's IRT New Lots Line in Brooklyn, serving as the line's final stop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
elevated railway station
ⓘ
former New York City Subway station ⓘ |
| borough | Brooklyn ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| closureReason | abandonment of portions of the BMT Myrtle Avenue elevated line ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| demolishedAsPartOf | mid-20th-century reductions of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line ⓘ |
| fareControlSystem | BMT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEraOfClosure | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| line | BMT Myrtle Avenue Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| namedAfter | Nostrand Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| network | Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation elevated network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatorDuringOperation | Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownerDuringOperation | Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSystem | New York City Subway ⓘ |
| platformConfiguration | elevated platforms ⓘ |
| servedArea | Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedBy | Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status |
closed
ⓘ
demolished ⓘ |
| structureType | elevated ⓘ |
| transportMode | rapid transit ⓘ |
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: Nostrand Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, demolished) Description of subject: Nostrand Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, demolished) was a former elevated New York City Subway station on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line in Brooklyn that was closed and torn down as part of the line’s mid-20th-century reductions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.