Amsterdam Avenue
E281967
Amsterdam Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City, known for running through several Upper Manhattan neighborhoods and serving as a key commercial and residential corridor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amsterdam Avenue canonical | 11 |
| Amsterdam Avenue (on the Upper West Side) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1164609 — 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: Amsterdam Avenue Context triple: [Upper Manhattan, traversedBy, Amsterdam Avenue]
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A.
Lexington Avenue
Lexington Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare on Manhattan’s East Side, running through key commercial and residential neighborhoods and serving as a backbone for subway service in the borough.
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B.
Tompkins Avenue
Tompkins Avenue is a prominent thoroughfare in Brooklyn’s Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood, known for its historic brownstones, local businesses, and role in the area’s cultural life.
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C.
Columbus Avenue
Columbus Avenue is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for running through the North Beach neighborhood and its vibrant mix of Italian eateries, cafes, and historic landmarks.
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D.
York Avenue
York Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City, known for running through a corridor of prominent medical and research institutions.
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E.
Stuyvesant Avenue
Stuyvesant Avenue is a prominent residential street in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, known for its historic brownstones and tree-lined blocks.
- 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: Amsterdam Avenue Target entity description: Amsterdam Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City, known for running through several Upper Manhattan neighborhoods and serving as a key commercial and residential corridor.
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A.
Lexington Avenue
Lexington Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare on Manhattan’s East Side, running through key commercial and residential neighborhoods and serving as a backbone for subway service in the borough.
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B.
Tompkins Avenue
Tompkins Avenue is a prominent thoroughfare in Brooklyn’s Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood, known for its historic brownstones, local businesses, and role in the area’s cultural life.
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C.
Columbus Avenue
Columbus Avenue is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for running through the North Beach neighborhood and its vibrant mix of Italian eateries, cafes, and historic landmarks.
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D.
York Avenue
York Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City, known for running through a corridor of prominent medical and research institutions.
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E.
Stuyvesant Avenue
Stuyvesant Avenue is a prominent residential street in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, known for its historic brownstones and tree-lined blocks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
avenue
ⓘ
street ⓘ thoroughfare ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Tenth Avenue ⓘ |
| hasLandmarkAlong |
Cathedral of St. John the Divine vicinity
ⓘ
Columbia University vicinity ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransit |
MTA New York City Bus
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City Bus routes
|
| knownFor |
commercial corridor
ⓘ
major north–south thoroughfare in Manhattan ⓘ residential corridor ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| namedAfter |
Amsterdam
ⓘ
surface form:
city of Amsterdam
|
| partOf | Manhattan street grid ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Harlem
ⓘ
Manhattan Valley ⓘ Morningside Heights ⓘ Upper Manhattan neighborhoods ⓘ Upper West Side ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pedestrian traffic
ⓘ
vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| zoningType | mixed commercial and 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: Amsterdam Avenue Description of subject: Amsterdam Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City, known for running through several Upper Manhattan neighborhoods and serving as a key commercial and residential corridor.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Amsterdam Avenue (on the Upper West Side)