IRT 42nd Street Shuttle
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The IRT 42nd Street Shuttle is a short New York City Subway shuttle service that runs between Times Square and Grand Central along 42nd Street in Manhattan.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| S 42nd Street Shuttle | 2 |
| Grand Central–Times Square Shuttle | 1 |
| IRT 42nd Street Shuttle canonical | 1 |
| S (42nd Street Shuttle) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3300711 — 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: IRT 42nd Street Shuttle Context triple: [R11, associatedWithLines, IRT 42nd Street Shuttle]
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A.
Brooklyn–Manhattan service
Brooklyn–Manhattan service is a New York City Subway service pattern that operates trains between Brooklyn and Manhattan along the BMT Jamaica Line and connecting routes.
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B.
BMT Broadway Line
The BMT Broadway Line is a major New York City Subway trunk line in Manhattan, carrying N, Q, R, and W trains through Midtown and Lower Manhattan via Broadway.
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C.
Sixth Avenue express service
The Sixth Avenue express service is a New York City Subway route pattern that runs express along the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan, providing faster north–south service than the local trains on the same corridor.
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D.
New York City Subway C line
The New York City Subway C line is an IND Eighth Avenue Line local service in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and sometimes Queens, known for its blue route color and frequent stops along the west side of Manhattan.
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E.
Second Avenue Subway
The Second Avenue Subway is a New York City Subway line on Manhattan’s East Side, built to relieve congestion on the Lexington Avenue Line and long envisioned as a major north–south transit corridor.
- 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: IRT 42nd Street Shuttle Target entity description: The IRT 42nd Street Shuttle is a short New York City Subway shuttle service that runs between Times Square and Grand Central along 42nd Street in Manhattan.
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A.
Brooklyn–Manhattan service
Brooklyn–Manhattan service is a New York City Subway service pattern that operates trains between Brooklyn and Manhattan along the BMT Jamaica Line and connecting routes.
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B.
BMT Broadway Line
The BMT Broadway Line is a major New York City Subway trunk line in Manhattan, carrying N, Q, R, and W trains through Midtown and Lower Manhattan via Broadway.
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C.
Sixth Avenue express service
The Sixth Avenue express service is a New York City Subway route pattern that runs express along the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan, providing faster north–south service than the local trains on the same corridor.
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D.
New York City Subway C line
The New York City Subway C line is an IND Eighth Avenue Line local service in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and sometimes Queens, known for its blue route color and frequent stops along the west side of Manhattan.
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E.
Second Avenue Subway
The Second Avenue Subway is a New York City Subway line on Manhattan’s East Side, built to relieve congestion on the Lexington Avenue Line and long envisioned as a major north–south transit corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: IRT 42nd Street Shuttle Description of subject: The IRT 42nd Street Shuttle is a short New York City Subway shuttle service that runs between Times Square and Grand Central along 42nd Street in Manhattan.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
S 42nd Street Shuttle
this entity surface form:
S (42nd Street Shuttle)
this entity surface form:
S 42nd Street Shuttle
this entity surface form:
Grand Central–Times Square Shuttle