Independence Avenue SW
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Independence Avenue SW is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running near the National Mall and lined with prominent federal buildings and museums.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Independence Avenue SW canonical | 20 |
| Independence Avenue and South Capitol Street SW | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1118516 — 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: Independence Avenue SW Context triple: [National Air and Space Museum, locatedOnStreet, Independence Avenue SW]
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A.
Vermont Avenue NW
Vermont Avenue NW is a major diagonal street in Washington, D.C., running northwest from downtown through neighborhoods such as Logan Circle.
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B.
Wisconsin Avenue NW
Wisconsin Avenue NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the historic Georgetown neighborhood and serving as a key commercial and transportation corridor.
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C.
Connecticut Avenue NW
Connecticut Avenue NW is a major diagonal thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., known for connecting downtown to upper Northwest neighborhoods and passing through prominent areas like Dupont Circle.
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D.
Virginia Avenue NW
Virginia Avenue NW is a major street in Washington, D.C., that runs through the Foggy Bottom area near key federal buildings and institutions.
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E.
Columbia Road NW
Columbia Road NW is a major thoroughfare in Washington, D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, known for its dense mix of apartments, shops, restaurants, and nightlife.
- 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: Independence Avenue SW Target entity description: Independence Avenue SW is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running near the National Mall and lined with prominent federal buildings and museums.
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A.
Vermont Avenue NW
Vermont Avenue NW is a major diagonal street in Washington, D.C., running northwest from downtown through neighborhoods such as Logan Circle.
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B.
Wisconsin Avenue NW
Wisconsin Avenue NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the historic Georgetown neighborhood and serving as a key commercial and transportation corridor.
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C.
Connecticut Avenue NW
Connecticut Avenue NW is a major diagonal thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., known for connecting downtown to upper Northwest neighborhoods and passing through prominent areas like Dupont Circle.
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D.
Virginia Avenue NW
Virginia Avenue NW is a major street in Washington, D.C., that runs through the Foggy Bottom area near key federal buildings and institutions.
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E.
Columbia Road NW
Columbia Road NW is a major thoroughfare in Washington, D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, known for its dense mix of apartments, shops, restaurants, and nightlife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
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thoroughfare ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| governingJurisdiction |
Government of the District of Columbia
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surface form:
District of Columbia government
|
| hasAdjacent |
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
ⓘ
surface form:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden vicinity
National Air and Space Museum vicinity ⓘ National Museum of African American History and Culture vicinity ⓘ National Museum of African Art vicinity ⓘ National Museum of Asian Art vicinity ⓘ National Museum of the American Indian ⓘ
surface form:
National Museum of the American Indian vicinity
|
| hasBikeInfrastructure | partial bicycle facilities and connections ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem |
WGS84
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surface form:
World Geodetic System 1984
|
| hasFunction |
access route to federal institutions
ⓘ
tourist circulation route near National Mall ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple traffic lanes ⓘ |
| hasPublicSpaceRole | ceremonial route vicinity ⓘ |
| hasRoadType | urban arterial ⓘ |
| hasSidewalks | yes ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | urban posted speed limits ⓘ |
| isParallelTo | Constitution Avenue NW (in Mall area) ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States federal district transportation network ⓘ |
| linedWith |
federal office buildings
ⓘ
museums ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | District of Columbia Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
American Declaration of Independence
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surface form:
United States Declaration of Independence
|
| partOf |
Washington, D.C. arterial road network
ⓘ
surface form:
District of Columbia street network
Southwest Washington, D.C. ⓘ
surface form:
Southwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C.
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| passesNear |
Smithsonian Institution buildings
ⓘ
surface form:
Smithsonian museums
United States Botanic Garden vicinity ⓘ United States Capitol grounds ⓘ United States Department of Agriculture South Building, Washington, D.C. ⓘ
surface form:
United States Department of Agriculture headquarters
U.S. Department of Education headquarters ⓘ
surface form:
United States Department of Education headquarters
United States Department of Energy headquarters ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
National Mall
ⓘ
surface form:
National Mall area
|
| runsNear | National Mall ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pedestrian access to federal buildings
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public transit routes ⓘ vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| zoningContext | federal core area ⓘ |
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: Independence Avenue SW Description of subject: Independence Avenue SW is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running near the National Mall and lined with prominent federal buildings and museums.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
National Air and Space Museum
United States Department of Agriculture South Building, Washington, D.C.
→
streetAddress
→
Independence Avenue SW
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subject surface form:
Smithsonian station
subject surface form:
Smithsonian station
this entity surface form:
Independence Avenue and South Capitol Street SW
subject surface form:
Smithsonian station