Canal Road NW
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Canal Road NW is a major roadway in Washington, D.C. that runs along the C&O Canal and the Potomac River, connecting Georgetown with the Palisades neighborhood and points northwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canal Road NW canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3867008 — 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: Canal Road NW Context triple: [Palisades, transportConnection, Canal Road NW]
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A.
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.
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B.
Cathedral Avenue NW
Cathedral Avenue NW is a residential street in Northwest Washington, D.C., known for running through wooded neighborhoods near Rock Creek Park and providing access to institutions like the Washington National Cathedral.
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C.
Calvert Street NW
Calvert Street NW is a major east–west street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running through neighborhoods such as Woodley Park and Adams Morgan and crossing Rock Creek Park via the Duke Ellington Bridge.
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D.
Upshur Street NW
Upshur Street NW is a notable residential and commercial street in Washington, D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood, known for its local shops, restaurants, and community-focused atmosphere.
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E.
Irving Street NW
Irving Street NW is a street in Washington, D.C.’s Columbia Heights neighborhood that serves as one of the local access points to the surrounding urban and transit 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: Canal Road NW Target entity description: Canal Road NW is a major roadway in Washington, D.C. that runs along the C&O Canal and the Potomac River, connecting Georgetown with the Palisades neighborhood and points northwest.
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A.
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.
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B.
Cathedral Avenue NW
Cathedral Avenue NW is a residential street in Northwest Washington, D.C., known for running through wooded neighborhoods near Rock Creek Park and providing access to institutions like the Washington National Cathedral.
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C.
Calvert Street NW
Calvert Street NW is a major east–west street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running through neighborhoods such as Woodley Park and Adams Morgan and crossing Rock Creek Park via the Duke Ellington Bridge.
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D.
Upshur Street NW
Upshur Street NW is a notable residential and commercial street in Washington, D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood, known for its local shops, restaurants, and community-focused atmosphere.
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E.
Irving Street NW
Irving Street NW is a street in Washington, D.C.’s Columbia Heights neighborhood that serves as one of the local access points to the surrounding urban and transit area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
roadway
ⓘ
street in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Potomac River waterfront NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Georgetown
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Palisades neighborhood NERFINISHED ⓘ points northwest of Georgetown ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossesUnder |
Key Bridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Whitehurst Freeway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows |
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Potomac River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory | Streets in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| hasDirection | northwest–southeast ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple traffic lanes ⓘ |
| hasName | Canal Road Northwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | posted speed limits varying by segment ⓘ |
| hasSurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | District Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | Chesapeake and Ohio Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
C&O Canal towpath
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chain Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Fletcher’s Cove NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgetown University NERFINISHED ⓘ Key Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
C&O Canal towpath
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MacArthur Boulevard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
District of Columbia street network
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
regional commuter routes between Maryland and Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Georgetown neighborhood
ⓘ
Palisades neighborhood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Mid-Atlantic states
ⓘ
surface form:
Mid-Atlantic United States
|
| roadType | urban arterial road ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
local traffic ⓘ |
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: Canal Road NW Description of subject: Canal Road NW is a major roadway in Washington, D.C. that runs along the C&O Canal and the Potomac River, connecting Georgetown with the Palisades neighborhood and points northwest.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.