Fordham Road
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Fordham Road is a major commercial thoroughfare and transit hub in the Bronx, New York City, known for its busy shopping district and heavy pedestrian traffic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fordham Road canonical | 11 |
| Fordham Road commercial corridor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T646217 — 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: Fordham Road Context triple: [4 train, notableBronxStations, Fordham Road]
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A.
Porter Avenue
Porter Avenue is a historic, Olmsted-designed boulevard in Buffalo, New York, that forms part of the city’s landmark park and parkway system.
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B.
Highland Avenue
Highland Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Los Angeles best known for running through Hollywood and intersecting with Hollywood Boulevard near many of the city's iconic landmarks.
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C.
Somerville Avenue
Somerville Avenue is a major street in Somerville, Massachusetts, running through areas such as Porter Square and serving as a key local commercial and transit corridor.
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D.
Euclid Avenue
Euclid Avenue is a major New York City Subway station in Brooklyn that serves as the eastern terminal for the IND Fulton Street Line.
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E.
Lenox Avenue
Lenox Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Harlem, Manhattan, historically known as a cultural and commercial hub of African-American life and the Harlem Renaissance.
- 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: Fordham Road Target entity description: Fordham Road is a major commercial thoroughfare and transit hub in the Bronx, New York City, known for its busy shopping district and heavy pedestrian traffic.
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A.
Porter Avenue
Porter Avenue is a historic, Olmsted-designed boulevard in Buffalo, New York, that forms part of the city’s landmark park and parkway system.
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B.
Highland Avenue
Highland Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Los Angeles best known for running through Hollywood and intersecting with Hollywood Boulevard near many of the city's iconic landmarks.
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C.
Somerville Avenue
Somerville Avenue is a major street in Somerville, Massachusetts, running through areas such as Porter Square and serving as a key local commercial and transit corridor.
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D.
Euclid Avenue
Euclid Avenue is a major New York City Subway station in Brooklyn that serves as the eastern terminal for the IND Fulton Street Line.
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E.
Lenox Avenue
Lenox Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Harlem, Manhattan, historically known as a cultural and commercial hub of African-American life and the Harlem Renaissance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial district
ⓘ
shopping district ⓘ thoroughfare ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Fordham Plaza ⓘ |
| crosses |
Grand Concourse
ⓘ
Jerome Avenue ⓘ Southern Boulevard ⓘ Third Avenue ⓘ Webster Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBorough | The Bronx ⓘ |
| hasCity | New York City ⓘ |
| hasCommercialActivity |
department stores
ⓘ
restaurants ⓘ retail stores ⓘ street vendors ⓘ |
| hasCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasEconomicRole | major retail center for The Bronx and surrounding areas ⓘ |
| hasLandmarkNearby |
Bronx Zoo
ⓘ
Fordham University ⓘ
surface form:
Fordham University Rose Hill campus
New York Botanical Garden ⓘ |
| hasNeighborhood |
Belmont
ⓘ
Fordham ⓘ Kingsbridge ⓘ University Heights ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | east–west ⓘ |
| hasPedestrianTrafficLevel | high ⓘ |
| hasRailStationNearby |
Fordham station
ⓘ
surface form:
Fordham station (Metro-North Railroad)
|
| hasReputation | one of the busiest shopping streets in The Bronx ⓘ |
| hasSectionName |
East Fordham Road
ⓘ
West Fordham Road ⓘ |
| hasSubwayStation |
Fordham Road (B D) station
ⓘ
surface form:
Fordham Road (4) station
Fordham Road (B D) station ⓘ |
| hasTransportationRole | major crosstown route in The Bronx ⓘ |
| hasZoningType | commercial ⓘ |
| knownFor |
busy shopping district
ⓘ
heavy pedestrian traffic ⓘ major transit hub ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
The Bronx ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| partOf | Bronx street grid ⓘ |
| servedByBusSystem |
MTA New York City Bus
ⓘ
surface form:
MTA Regional Bus Operations
|
| servedBySubwayLine |
2 (IRT White Plains Road Line)
ⓘ
New York City Subway Line 4 ⓘ
surface form:
4 (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
Dyre Avenue Line ⓘ
surface form:
5 (IRT Dyre Avenue Line)
B (IND Concourse Line) ⓘ IND Concourse Line ⓘ
surface form:
D (IND Concourse Line)
|
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: Fordham Road Description of subject: Fordham Road is a major commercial thoroughfare and transit hub in the Bronx, New York City, known for its busy shopping district and heavy pedestrian traffic.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fordham (neighborhood)
subject surface form:
Fordham (neighborhood)
this entity surface form:
Fordham Road commercial corridor
subject surface form:
Fordham (neighborhood)
subject surface form:
D (New York City Subway service)