City Lights Bookstore
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City Lights Bookstore is a historic independent bookstore and literary landmark in San Francisco renowned for its Beat Generation associations and progressive publishing.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| City Lights Bookstore canonical | 12 |
| City Lights Books | 7 |
| City Lights Booksellers & Publishers | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T297910 — 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.
Target entity: City Lights Bookstore Context triple: [North Beach, hasCulturalSite, City Lights Bookstore]
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Powell’s City of Books
Powell’s City of Books is a famed independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, renowned as one of the world’s largest new and used bookstores, occupying an entire city block.
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Dom Knigi bookstore
Dom Knigi bookstore is a famous historic bookshop in Saint Petersburg, Russia, housed in the ornate Singer House on Nevsky Prospekt and known as a major literary and cultural landmark.
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C.
Mid-Manhattan Library
The Mid-Manhattan Library is a major circulating branch of the New York Public Library system in Manhattan, known for its extensive general-interest collections and public services.
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D.
Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe
Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe is a well-known independent bookstore and 24-hour café in Washington, D.C., popular for its literary selection, late-night dining, and vibrant atmosphere.
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E.
Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store is an independent, locally owned bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its extensive selection of new and used books, author events, and long-standing literary presence near Harvard University.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: City Lights Bookstore Target entity description: City Lights Bookstore is a historic independent bookstore and literary landmark in San Francisco renowned for its Beat Generation associations and progressive publishing.
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A.
Powell’s City of Books
Powell’s City of Books is a famed independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, renowned as one of the world’s largest new and used bookstores, occupying an entire city block.
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B.
Dom Knigi bookstore
Dom Knigi bookstore is a famous historic bookshop in Saint Petersburg, Russia, housed in the ornate Singer House on Nevsky Prospekt and known as a major literary and cultural landmark.
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C.
Mid-Manhattan Library
The Mid-Manhattan Library is a major circulating branch of the New York Public Library system in Manhattan, known for its extensive general-interest collections and public services.
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D.
Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe
Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe is a well-known independent bookstore and 24-hour café in Washington, D.C., popular for its literary selection, late-night dining, and vibrant atmosphere.
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E.
Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store is an independent, locally owned bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its extensive selection of new and used books, author events, and long-standing literary presence near Harvard University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent bookstore
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literary landmark ⓘ small business ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Beat Generation
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San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ counterculture ⓘ progressive politics ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| foundedAs | paperback-only bookstore ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
ⓘ
Peter D. Martin ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
author events
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book publishing ⓘ book readings ⓘ book retail ⓘ |
| hasMotto | A Literary Meetingplace Since 1953 ⓘ |
| hasOwner | Lawrence Ferlinghetti ⓘ |
| hasRole | cultural center ⓘ |
| hasSection | poetry room ⓘ |
| hasType | three-story bookstore ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.citylights.com/ ⓘ |
| inception | 1953 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Beat literature
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independent press ⓘ literary readings ⓘ progressive publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| near | Columbus Avenue and Broadway intersection ⓘ |
| neighborhood | North Beach ⓘ |
| notableAuthorPublished |
Allen Ginsberg
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Gregory Corso ⓘ Jack Kerouac ⓘ Lawrence Ferlinghetti ⓘ |
| notablePublication |
Howl
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surface form:
Howl and Other Poems
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| originalFunction |
paperback bookstore
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publisher ⓘ |
| publishingImprint | City Lights Publishers ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | San Francisco Designated Landmark ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
poetry
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progressive literature ⓘ radical politics ⓘ world literature ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 261 Columbus Avenue ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: City Lights Bookstore Description of subject: City Lights Bookstore is a historic independent bookstore and literary landmark in San Francisco renowned for its Beat Generation associations and progressive publishing.
Referenced by (22)
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