Newton Centre
E14905
Newton Centre is a village and major commercial hub within the city of Newton, Massachusetts, known for its shops, restaurants, and proximity to local schools and transit.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newton Centre canonical | 10 |
| Newton Centre Green | 1 |
| Newton Centre business district | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9893 — 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: Newton Centre Context triple: [Newton, Massachusetts, hasPart, Newton Centre]
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A.
North Cambridge
North Cambridge is a residential neighborhood in the northern part of Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its diverse community, local businesses, and access to public transit.
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B.
West Cambridge
West Cambridge is a primarily residential neighborhood in the western part of Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its historic homes, tree-lined streets, and proximity to the Charles River.
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C.
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea, Massachusetts is a small, densely populated city just north of Boston known for its industrial history, diverse immigrant communities, and location along the Mystic River.
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D.
Kendall Square
Kendall Square is a major innovation district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its dense concentration of technology companies, startups, and research institutions near the MIT campus.
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E.
Milton
Milton is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts, United States, located just south of Boston.
- 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: Newton Centre Target entity description: Newton Centre is a village and major commercial hub within the city of Newton, Massachusetts, known for its shops, restaurants, and proximity to local schools and transit.
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A.
North Cambridge
North Cambridge is a residential neighborhood in the northern part of Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its diverse community, local businesses, and access to public transit.
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B.
West Cambridge
West Cambridge is a primarily residential neighborhood in the western part of Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its historic homes, tree-lined streets, and proximity to the Charles River.
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C.
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea, Massachusetts is a small, densely populated city just north of Boston known for its industrial history, diverse immigrant communities, and location along the Mystic River.
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D.
Kendall Square
Kendall Square is a major innovation district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its dense concentration of technology companies, startups, and research institutions near the MIT campus.
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E.
Milton
Milton is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts, United States, located just south of Boston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial district
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAmenity |
banks
ⓘ
professional offices ⓘ public library (nearby main branch) ⓘ public playground ⓘ religious institutions ⓘ restaurants ⓘ retail stores ⓘ |
| hasCommercialArea |
Newton Centre
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Newton Centre business district
|
| hasFeature |
mixed-use residential and commercial buildings
ⓘ
public parks and green spaces ⓘ street parking and municipal lots ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | municipal village within a city ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Newton Centre
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Newton Centre Green
Newton Centre Playground ⓘ Newton Free Library ⓘ
surface form:
Newton Free Library (main branch nearby)
|
| hasNearbySchool |
Mason-Rice Elementary School
ⓘ
Newton South High School ⓘ Weeks House (Boston College Law School housing, historically) ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransportOperator |
MBTA
ⓘ
surface form:
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
|
| hasStreet |
Beacon Street
ⓘ
Centre Street ⓘ Langley Road ⓘ Union Street ⓘ |
| hasTransit | Newton Centre station ⓘ |
| hasZoning |
commercial
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cafes
ⓘ
restaurants ⓘ shops ⓘ walkable village center ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Massachusetts
ⓘ
Middlesex County, Massachusetts ⓘ Newton, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| near |
Chestnut Hill, Newton
ⓘ
surface form:
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Newton ⓘ
surface form:
Newton Corner
Newton Highlands ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| partOf |
City of Newton, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Newton
Greater Boston ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Boston area
|
| postalCode | 02459 ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| servedBy | MBTA Green Line D branch ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Newton Centre Description of subject: Newton Centre is a village and major commercial hub within the city of Newton, Massachusetts, known for its shops, restaurants, and proximity to local schools and transit.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Newton Centre Green
this entity surface form:
Newton Centre business district
subject surface form:
Union Street (Newton, Massachusetts)