Jamaica–179th Street station
E402393
Jamaica–179th Street station is a major eastern terminal of the New York City Subway’s IND Queens Boulevard Line, serving as a key transit hub in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jamaica–179th Street station canonical | 2 |
| 179th Street–Jamaica subway station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3944323 — 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: Jamaica–179th Street station Context triple: [Jamaica Yard, connectedTo, Jamaica–179th Street station]
-
A.
168th Street (BMT Jamaica Line) station
The 168th Street (BMT Jamaica Line) station was a former elevated New York City Subway station in Jamaica, Queens, that once served the BMT Jamaica Line before its closure and replacement by the modern Archer Avenue Subway.
-
B.
170th Street (Grand Concourse) station
170th Street (Grand Concourse) station is a New York City Subway station in the Bronx serving the B and D lines along the Grand Concourse.
-
C.
Highland Avenue station
Highland Avenue station is a New Jersey Transit commuter rail stop in Orange, New Jersey, serving local passengers on the Morris & Essex Lines.
-
D.
Harlem–125th Street station
Harlem–125th Street station is a major New York City commuter rail hub in East Harlem serving multiple Metro-North Railroad lines.
-
E.
Fairview Avenue station
Fairview Avenue station is a commuter rail stop in Downers Grove, Illinois, serving Metra's BNSF Railway Line in the Chicago metropolitan area.
- 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: Jamaica–179th Street station Target entity description: Jamaica–179th Street station is a major eastern terminal of the New York City Subway’s IND Queens Boulevard Line, serving as a key transit hub in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens.
-
A.
168th Street (BMT Jamaica Line) station
The 168th Street (BMT Jamaica Line) station was a former elevated New York City Subway station in Jamaica, Queens, that once served the BMT Jamaica Line before its closure and replacement by the modern Archer Avenue Subway.
-
B.
170th Street (Grand Concourse) station
170th Street (Grand Concourse) station is a New York City Subway station in the Bronx serving the B and D lines along the Grand Concourse.
-
C.
Highland Avenue station
Highland Avenue station is a New Jersey Transit commuter rail stop in Orange, New Jersey, serving local passengers on the Morris & Essex Lines.
-
D.
Harlem–125th Street station
Harlem–125th Street station is a major New York City commuter rail hub in East Harlem serving multiple Metro-North Railroad lines.
-
E.
Fairview Avenue station
Fairview Avenue station is a commuter rail stop in Downers Grove, Illinois, serving Metra's BNSF Railway Line in the Chicago metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New York City Subway station
ⓘ
underground railway station ⓘ |
| borough | Queens ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossStreet | 179th Street ⓘ |
| division | IND ⓘ |
| fareControl | turnstiles ⓘ |
| fareZone | NYC Subway flat fare zone ⓘ |
| hasAccessibility | partially accessible ⓘ |
| hasAdjacentStation | 169th Street station ⓘ |
| hasBoroughCode | Q ⓘ |
| hasConnection |
MTA Bus Company routes
ⓘ
NYCT buses ⓘ |
| hasEntrance |
Hillside Avenue & 179th Street
ⓘ
surface form:
Hillside Avenue & 178th Street
Hillside Avenue & 179th Street ⓘ Hillside Avenue & 179th Street ⓘ
surface form:
Hillside Avenue & 180th Street
|
| hasMezzanine | full-length mezzanine above platforms ⓘ |
| hasService | 24-hour F train service ⓘ |
| hasServicePattern | local and express tracks ⓘ |
| hasTileColor | IND color-coded tile band system ⓘ |
| line | IND Queens Boulevard Line ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jamaica, Queens
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ Queens ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| nearbyFacility | Jamaica Bus Terminal ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Jamaica ⓘ |
| opened | 1950-12-11 ⓘ |
| operator |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
ⓘ
New York City Transit Authority ⓘ |
| owner |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
City of New York
|
| platformCount | 2 ⓘ |
| platformType | island platform ⓘ |
| positionOnLine | eastern terminal of IND Queens Boulevard Line ⓘ |
| role |
key transit hub in Jamaica, Queens
ⓘ
major eastern terminal of the IND Queens Boulevard Line ⓘ |
| servesLine | F ⓘ |
| stationCode | 179 ⓘ |
| streetLocation | Hillside Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structureType | underground ⓘ |
| style | IND design ⓘ |
| terminalFor | F ⓘ |
| trackCount | 4 ⓘ |
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: Jamaica–179th Street station Description of subject: Jamaica–179th Street station is a major eastern terminal of the New York City Subway’s IND Queens Boulevard Line, serving as a key transit hub in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
179th Street–Jamaica subway station