Madison Street
E124491
Madison Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Chicago, Illinois, serving as a key dividing line for the city’s street numbering system.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madison Street canonical | 4 |
| Rush Street | 1 |
| West Madison Street | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T398424 — 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: Madison Street Context triple: [McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink, hasNearbyStreet, Madison Street]
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A.
Monroe Street
Monroe Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Chicago, Illinois, running through the city’s central business and cultural districts.
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B.
Mason Street
Mason Street is a well-known thoroughfare in San Francisco that forms part of the historic cable car routes running through the city.
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C.
Spruce Street
Spruce Street is a major thoroughfare running through University City in Philadelphia, known for serving the nearby universities and residential neighborhoods.
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D.
College Street
College Street is a prominent thoroughfare in New Haven, Connecticut, running alongside Yale University’s Old Campus and connecting key parts of the downtown area.
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E.
Franklin Avenue
Franklin Avenue is a notable east–west thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California, running through the Hollywood area and known for its historic residential neighborhoods and proximity to major Hollywood landmarks.
- 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: Madison Street Target entity description: Madison Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Chicago, Illinois, serving as a key dividing line for the city’s street numbering system.
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A.
Monroe Street
Monroe Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Chicago, Illinois, running through the city’s central business and cultural districts.
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B.
Mason Street
Mason Street is a well-known thoroughfare in San Francisco that forms part of the historic cable car routes running through the city.
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C.
Spruce Street
Spruce Street is a major thoroughfare running through University City in Philadelphia, known for serving the nearby universities and residential neighborhoods.
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D.
College Street
College Street is a prominent thoroughfare in New Haven, Connecticut, running alongside Yale University’s Old Campus and connecting key parts of the downtown area.
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E.
Franklin Avenue
Franklin Avenue is a notable east–west thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California, running through the Hollywood area and known for its historic residential neighborhoods and proximity to major Hollywood landmarks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| cityStreetNumberingSystem |
Chicago street grid
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago grid system
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| divides |
North side of Chicago
ⓘ
South side of Chicago ⓘ |
| formsZeroPointFor | north–south address numbers in Chicago ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateOriginWith | State Street ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial corridor
ⓘ
traffic artery ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple traffic lanes ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | perpendicular to State Street ⓘ |
| intersectionRole | origin of Chicago street numbering system ⓘ |
| intersects | State Street ⓘ |
| isKeyDividingLineFor |
Chicago street grid
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago address system
|
| isMajor | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago, Illinois
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| namedAfter | James Madison ⓘ |
| partOf | Chicago street grid ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Downtown Chicago area
ⓘ
surface form:
Downtown Chicago
|
| roleInStreetGrid |
baseline for north–south numbering
ⓘ
primary east–west axis ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Loop community area
ⓘ
Near West Side ⓘ
surface form:
Near West Side community area
|
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| usedBy |
automobile traffic
ⓘ
pedestrians ⓘ public 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: Madison Street Description of subject: Madison Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Chicago, Illinois, serving as a key dividing line for the city’s street numbering system.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rush Street
this entity surface form:
West Madison Street