Filbert Steps
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Filbert Steps is a famous steep stairway in San Francisco that climbs the eastern slope of Telegraph Hill, known for its gardens, views, and access to Coit Tower.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Filbert Steps canonical | 4 |
| Greenwich Steps | 2 |
| Telegraph Hill steps network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T908503 — 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: Filbert Steps Context triple: [Telegraph Hill, hasLandmark, Filbert Steps]
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A.
Spanish Steps (Decatur Terrace steps)
The Spanish Steps (Decatur Terrace steps) are an ornamental, European-style staircase and landscaped urban feature located in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood.
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B.
Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain is a monumental, rococo-style fountain in Chicago’s Grant Park, famed for its large water displays and role as an iconic city landmark.
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C.
The Broad
The Broad is a contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles known for its distinctive honeycomb-like architecture and extensive collection of postwar and contemporary artworks.
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D.
Barton Arcade
Barton Arcade is a Victorian-era glass and iron shopping arcade in Manchester, England, known for its ornate architecture and boutique retail spaces.
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E.
Stone Archway
Stone Archway is a monumental carved stone gateway that serves as a ceremonial entrance structure within the Ming Tombs complex in China.
- 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: Filbert Steps Target entity description: Filbert Steps is a famous steep stairway in San Francisco that climbs the eastern slope of Telegraph Hill, known for its gardens, views, and access to Coit Tower.
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A.
Spanish Steps (Decatur Terrace steps)
The Spanish Steps (Decatur Terrace steps) are an ornamental, European-style staircase and landscaped urban feature located in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood.
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B.
Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain is a monumental, rococo-style fountain in Chicago’s Grant Park, famed for its large water displays and role as an iconic city landmark.
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C.
The Broad
The Broad is a contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles known for its distinctive honeycomb-like architecture and extensive collection of postwar and contemporary artworks.
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D.
Barton Arcade
Barton Arcade is a Victorian-era glass and iron shopping arcade in Manchester, England, known for its ornate architecture and boutique retail spaces.
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E.
Stone Archway
Stone Archway is a monumental carved stone gateway that serves as a ceremonial entrance structure within the Ming Tombs complex in China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pedestrian staircase
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stairway ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| accessPoint |
near Coit Tower at the top
ⓘ
near Sansome Street at the bottom ⓘ |
| accessRestriction | no vehicular access ⓘ |
| activity |
photography
ⓘ
sightseeing ⓘ walking ⓘ |
| approximateConstructionPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Telegraph Hill Gardens ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| climbs | eastern slope of Telegraph Hill ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFeature |
handrails
ⓘ
landscaped gardens along the steps ⓘ multiple landings ⓘ residential houses along the stairway ⓘ |
| hasVegetation |
flowering plants
ⓘ
lush greenery ⓘ shrubs ⓘ |
| hasView |
Bay Bridge
ⓘ
Embarcadero ⓘ San Francisco Bay ⓘ San Francisco skyline ⓘ |
| hasWildlife | parrots of Telegraph Hill ⓘ |
| knownFor |
gardens
ⓘ
historic wooden stairway ⓘ steepness ⓘ views of San Francisco Bay ⓘ views of the Bay Bridge ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
North Beach ⓘ
surface form:
North Beach neighborhood
Telegraph Hill ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| location | San Francisco ⓘ |
| maintenance |
San Francisco Department of Public Works
ⓘ
surface form:
City and County of San Francisco (public right-of-way, with some private garden care)
|
| material | wood ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Filbert Street ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Greenwich Steps ⓘ |
| partOf |
Telegraph Hill
ⓘ
surface form:
Telegraph Hill stairway network
|
| pedestrianOnly | true ⓘ |
| providesAccessTo | Coit Tower ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| streetType | stairway street ⓘ |
| tourismCategory |
scenic walk
ⓘ
urban hike ⓘ |
| touristUse | popular walking route to Coit Tower ⓘ |
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: Filbert Steps Description of subject: Filbert Steps is a famous steep stairway in San Francisco that climbs the eastern slope of Telegraph Hill, known for its gardens, views, and access to Coit Tower.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Greenwich Steps
this entity surface form:
Greenwich Steps
this entity surface form:
Telegraph Hill steps network