Porter Street NW
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Porter Street NW is a residential and commuter street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running east–west through neighborhoods such as Cleveland Park and connecting with several major north–south avenues.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Porter Street NW canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1002541 — 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: Porter Street NW Context triple: [Connecticut Avenue NW, hasIntersection, Porter Street NW]
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A.
Van Ness Street NW
Van Ness Street NW is a major east–west residential and institutional street in Northwest Washington, D.C., running through neighborhoods such as Forest Hills and serving sites including the University of the District of Columbia.
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B.
Northeast 7th Avenue
Northeast 7th Avenue is a street in Portland, Oregon, that serves as a key transportation corridor through the Lloyd District.
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C.
Post Street
Post Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, running through central neighborhoods including the Union Square shopping district.
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D.
Calvert Street NW
Calvert Street NW is a major east–west street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running through neighborhoods such as Woodley Park and Adams Morgan and crossing Rock Creek Park via the Duke Ellington Bridge.
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E.
Missouri Avenue NW
Missouri Avenue NW is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several Northwest neighborhoods and connecting multiple key arterial streets.
- 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: Porter Street NW Target entity description: Porter Street NW is a residential and commuter street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running east–west through neighborhoods such as Cleveland Park and connecting with several major north–south avenues.
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A.
Van Ness Street NW
Van Ness Street NW is a major east–west residential and institutional street in Northwest Washington, D.C., running through neighborhoods such as Forest Hills and serving sites including the University of the District of Columbia.
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B.
Northeast 7th Avenue
Northeast 7th Avenue is a street in Portland, Oregon, that serves as a key transportation corridor through the Lloyd District.
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C.
Post Street
Post Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, running through central neighborhoods including the Union Square shopping district.
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D.
Calvert Street NW
Calvert Street NW is a major east–west street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running through neighborhoods such as Woodley Park and Adams Morgan and crossing Rock Creek Park via the Duke Ellington Bridge.
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E.
Missouri Avenue NW
Missouri Avenue NW is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several Northwest neighborhoods and connecting multiple key arterial streets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road in Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
street ⓘ |
| city | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
17th Street NW
ⓘ
Adams Mill Road NW ⓘ Beach Drive ⓘ
surface form:
Beach Drive NW
Broad Branch Road NW ⓘ Connecticut Avenue NW ⓘ Wisconsin Avenue NW ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFunction |
feeder to major north–south avenues
ⓘ
local traffic connector ⓘ |
| hasIntersection |
Beach Drive NW and Porter Street NW
ⓘ
Connecticut Avenue NW ⓘ
surface form:
Connecticut Avenue NW and Porter Street NW
Wisconsin Avenue NW ⓘ
surface form:
Wisconsin Avenue NW and Porter Street NW
|
| hasResidentialBuildings | yes ⓘ |
| hasRoadType | two-lane urban street ⓘ |
| hasSidewalks | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northwest Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
surface form:
Northwest Quadrant, Washington, D.C.
|
| near | Rock Creek Park ⓘ |
| partOf |
Washington, D.C. street grid
ⓘ
surface form:
District of Columbia street grid
|
| passesThroughNeighborhood |
Cleveland Park
ⓘ
Mount Pleasant ⓘ Woodley Park ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
commuter street
ⓘ
residential street ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess |
near Cleveland Park Metro station
ⓘ
served by WMATA bus routes ⓘ |
| runsDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| zoningCharacter | primarily residential ⓘ |
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: Porter Street NW Description of subject: Porter Street NW is a residential and commuter street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running east–west through neighborhoods such as Cleveland Park and connecting with several major north–south avenues.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.