10½ Beacon Street
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10½ Beacon Street is the historic Beacon Hill address in Boston that houses the renowned Boston Athenæum, one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 10½ Beacon Street canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1905799 — 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: 10½ Beacon Street Context triple: [Boston Athenaeum, hasAddress, 10½ Beacon Street]
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A.
Brattle Street Historic District
Brattle Street Historic District is a historic neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its well-preserved 18th- and 19th-century residences and its association with prominent figures of American history.
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B.
Tontine Crescent, Boston
Tontine Crescent, Boston was an elegant late-18th-century residential development designed by architect Charles Bulfinch, notable for its curved row of townhouses that exemplified early American Federal-style urban planning.
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C.
Pemberton Square, Boston
Pemberton Square in Boston is a historic civic space in the city's downtown area that houses key government and judicial buildings, including Massachusetts’ highest court.
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D.
Porter Square
Porter Square is a bustling commercial and transit hub in northern Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its shopping centers, restaurants, and MBTA Red Line and commuter rail station.
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E.
Davis Square
Davis Square is a vibrant commercial and cultural neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts, known for its restaurants, nightlife, arts scene, and MBTA Red Line station.
- 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: 10½ Beacon Street Target entity description: 10½ Beacon Street is the historic Beacon Hill address in Boston that houses the renowned Boston Athenæum, one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States.
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A.
Brattle Street Historic District
Brattle Street Historic District is a historic neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its well-preserved 18th- and 19th-century residences and its association with prominent figures of American history.
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B.
Tontine Crescent, Boston
Tontine Crescent, Boston was an elegant late-18th-century residential development designed by architect Charles Bulfinch, notable for its curved row of townhouses that exemplified early American Federal-style urban planning.
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C.
Pemberton Square, Boston
Pemberton Square in Boston is a historic civic space in the city's downtown area that houses key government and judicial buildings, including Massachusetts’ highest court.
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D.
Porter Square
Porter Square is a bustling commercial and transit hub in northern Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its shopping centers, restaurants, and MBTA Red Line and commuter rail station.
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E.
Davis Square
Davis Square is a vibrant commercial and cultural neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts, known for its restaurants, nightlife, arts scene, and MBTA Red Line station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
ⓘ
street address ⓘ |
| architecturalUse | library building ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Boston Athenaeum
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston Athenæum membership library
Boston literary culture ⓘ independent libraries in the United States ⓘ |
| city |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFunction | cultural institution location ⓘ |
| hasStreetName | Beacon Street ⓘ |
| hasStreetNumber | 10½ ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| historicDistrict |
Beacon Hill
ⓘ
surface form:
Beacon Hill Historic District
|
| houses |
Boston Athenaeum
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston Athenæum
|
| locatedIn |
Beacon Hill
ⓘ
Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
Massachusetts ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| near |
Boston Common
ⓘ
Massachusetts State House ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Beacon Hill ⓘ |
| notableFor | housing the Boston Athenæum ⓘ |
| occupant |
Boston Athenaeum
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston Athenæum
|
| region | New England ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| street | Beacon Street ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: 10½ Beacon Street Description of subject: 10½ Beacon Street is the historic Beacon Hill address in Boston that houses the renowned Boston Athenæum, one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.