Central Square, Cambridge
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Central Square, Cambridge is a vibrant commercial and cultural district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its diverse restaurants, nightlife, music venues, and historic urban streetscape.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Central Square, Cambridge canonical | 4 |
| Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1469006 — 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: Central Square, Cambridge Context triple: [Cambridgeport, near, Central Square, Cambridge]
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A.
Grand Arcade, Cambridge
Grand Arcade, Cambridge is a modern shopping centre in Cambridge, England, featuring a wide range of high-street and designer retailers, eateries, and parking facilities.
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B.
The Backs, Cambridge
The Backs, Cambridge is a picturesque area of parkland and college gardens behind several University of Cambridge colleges, renowned for its scenic views, historic architecture, and riverside walks.
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C.
Cambridge Market Square
Cambridge Market Square is the central open-air marketplace in Cambridge, England, known for its daily stalls selling food, crafts, and goods amid historic city surroundings.
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D.
Sidney Street, Cambridge
Sidney Street, Cambridge is a central shopping street in Cambridge, England, lined with retail stores, cafes, and historic buildings close to the city’s main market area.
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E.
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge is a street in Cambridge, England, best known for forming part of the university’s Sidgwick Site, which houses several arts and humanities faculties.
- 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: Central Square, Cambridge Target entity description: Central Square, Cambridge is a vibrant commercial and cultural district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its diverse restaurants, nightlife, music venues, and historic urban streetscape.
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A.
Grand Arcade, Cambridge
Grand Arcade, Cambridge is a modern shopping centre in Cambridge, England, featuring a wide range of high-street and designer retailers, eateries, and parking facilities.
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B.
The Backs, Cambridge
The Backs, Cambridge is a picturesque area of parkland and college gardens behind several University of Cambridge colleges, renowned for its scenic views, historic architecture, and riverside walks.
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C.
Cambridge Market Square
Cambridge Market Square is the central open-air marketplace in Cambridge, England, known for its daily stalls selling food, crafts, and goods amid historic city surroundings.
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D.
Sidney Street, Cambridge
Sidney Street, Cambridge is a central shopping street in Cambridge, England, lined with retail stores, cafes, and historic buildings close to the city’s main market area.
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E.
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge is a street in Cambridge, England, best known for forming part of the university’s Sidgwick Site, which houses several arts and humanities faculties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial district
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cultural district ⓘ neighborhood ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Cambridgeport
ⓘ
Harvard Square ⓘ Kendall Square ⓘ Mid-Cambridge ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| governedBy | City of Cambridge ⓘ |
| hasCulturalInstitution |
Central Square Theater
ⓘ
dance and music clubs ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
nightlife and entertainment industry
ⓘ
restaurant industry ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| hasEvent |
live music performances
ⓘ
local festivals ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
historic commercial buildings
ⓘ
mixed residential and retail buildings ⓘ pedestrian-friendly streets ⓘ public plazas ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial center
ⓘ
dining destination ⓘ entertainment district ⓘ transportation hub ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Cambridge Guildhall
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge City Hall
Cambridge YMCA ⓘ Central Square Historic District ⓘ Central Square Theater ⓘ Boston Center for the Arts ⓘ
surface form:
ImprovBoston (former location)
St. Paul’s Church, Cambridge ⓘ The Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransit |
MBTA bus network
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surface form:
MBTA bus routes
|
| hasPublicTransitStation |
MBTA Green Line stations
ⓘ
surface form:
Central station (MBTA)
|
| heritageStatus |
National Register of Historic Places
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surface form:
National Register of Historic Places district
|
| knownFor |
diverse restaurants
ⓘ
historic urban streetscape ⓘ live music scene ⓘ multicultural community ⓘ music venues ⓘ nightlife ⓘ street art ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ Middlesex County, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| near |
Harvard University
ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| partOf | Greater Boston ⓘ |
| servedBy | MBTA Red Line ⓘ |
| traversedBy | Massachusetts Avenue ⓘ |
| zoningType | mixed-use ⓘ |
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: Central Square, Cambridge Description of subject: Central Square, Cambridge is a vibrant commercial and cultural district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its diverse restaurants, nightlife, music venues, and historic urban streetscape.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts