Union Square
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Union Square is a landscaped public plaza and reflecting pool area located just west of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., serving as a prominent gathering and ceremonial space.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Union Square canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1480271 — 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: Union Square Context triple: [United States Capitol grounds, hasPart, Union Square]
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A.
Union Square
Union Square is a major commercial and cultural hub in downtown San Francisco, known for its upscale shopping, theaters, hotels, and vibrant urban plaza.
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B.
Union Square
Union Square is a historic commercial and cultural neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts, known for its diverse dining, arts scene, and community events.
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C.
Union Square Park
Union Square Park is a historic public park and gathering space in Manhattan, New York City, known for its bustling greenmarket, political demonstrations, and central location at the intersection of major downtown neighborhoods.
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D.
Herald Square
Herald Square is a bustling commercial and transportation hub in Midtown Manhattan, best known for its flagship Macy’s department store and as a focal point of New York City’s retail and holiday festivities.
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E.
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial and entertainment hub in Midtown Manhattan, famous for its bright billboards, Broadway theaters, and New Year’s Eve ball drop.
- 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: Union Square Target entity description: Union Square is a landscaped public plaza and reflecting pool area located just west of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., serving as a prominent gathering and ceremonial space.
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A.
Union Square
Union Square is a major commercial and cultural hub in downtown San Francisco, known for its upscale shopping, theaters, hotels, and vibrant urban plaza.
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B.
Union Square
Union Square is a historic commercial and cultural neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts, known for its diverse dining, arts scene, and community events.
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C.
Union Square Park
Union Square Park is a historic public park and gathering space in Manhattan, New York City, known for its bustling greenmarket, political demonstrations, and central location at the intersection of major downtown neighborhoods.
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D.
Herald Square
Herald Square is a bustling commercial and transportation hub in Midtown Manhattan, best known for its flagship Macy’s department store and as a focal point of New York City’s retail and holiday festivities.
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E.
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial and entertainment hub in Midtown Manhattan, famous for its bright billboards, Broadway theaters, and New Year’s Eve ball drop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Union Square Description of subject: Union Square is a landscaped public plaza and reflecting pool area located just west of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., serving as a prominent gathering and ceremonial space.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Union Square (Washington, D.C.)