West 138th Street
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West 138th Street is a historic street in Harlem, New York City, closely associated with the neighborhood’s African American cultural and religious life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West 138th Street canonical | 3 |
| 138th Street | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2699798 — 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: West 138th Street Context triple: [Abyssinian Baptist Church, hasFormerStreetName, West 138th Street]
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A.
West 114th Street
West 114th Street is a street in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood, known for running alongside parts of Columbia University and nearby academic and residential buildings.
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West 120th Street
West 120th Street is a street in Manhattan, New York City, that runs along the northern edge of Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus.
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C.
West 96th Street
West 96th Street is a major crosstown street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York City, connecting residential neighborhoods with key north–south routes and access to Riverside Park and the Hudson River.
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D.
West 125th Street
West 125th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Harlem, Manhattan, known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and serving as a key commercial and cultural corridor.
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West 86th Street
West 86th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, known for its residential buildings and proximity to Central Park.
- 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: West 138th Street Target entity description: West 138th Street is a historic street in Harlem, New York City, closely associated with the neighborhood’s African American cultural and religious life.
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A.
West 114th Street
West 114th Street is a street in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood, known for running alongside parts of Columbia University and nearby academic and residential buildings.
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B.
West 120th Street
West 120th Street is a street in Manhattan, New York City, that runs along the northern edge of Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus.
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C.
West 96th Street
West 96th Street is a major crosstown street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York City, connecting residential neighborhoods with key north–south routes and access to Riverside Park and the Hudson River.
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D.
West 125th Street
West 125th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Harlem, Manhattan, known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and serving as a key commercial and cultural corridor.
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E.
West 86th Street
West 86th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, known for its residential buildings and proximity to Central Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic district component
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historic rowhouse district ⓘ street ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | rowhouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Harlem Renaissance era community life ⓘ |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup | African Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| culturalRegion | Black Harlem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBuiltEnvironment |
brownstones
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historic townhouses ⓘ rowhouses ⓘ |
| hasCityBlockUse | rowhouses and religious buildings ⓘ |
| hasCulturalLandscape | churches, clubs, and community organizations ⓘ |
| hasNeighborhoodContext | predominantly African American community ⓘ |
| hasReligiousInstitutions |
African American congregations
ⓘ
churches ⓘ |
| hasSection | Strivers Row NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | recognized as historically significant within Harlem ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfProminence |
Harlem Renaissance era
NERFINISHED
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early 20th century ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
center of Black middle-class life in Harlem
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site of important African American religious institutions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
African American cultural life
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African American religious life ⓘ historic African American community ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Harlem
NERFINISHED
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Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedOn | West 138th Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | numbered Manhattan street system ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Harlem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Central Harlem
NERFINISHED
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Manhattan street system ⓘ |
| socioCulturalRole |
focus of African American neighborhood institutions
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symbol of Harlem’s Black heritage ⓘ |
| streetType | east–west street ⓘ |
| transportationNetwork | Manhattan street grid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| urbanFunction |
cultural corridor
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religious corridor ⓘ residential street ⓘ |
| urbanSetting | dense urban residential area ⓘ |
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: West 138th Street Description of subject: West 138th Street is a historic street in Harlem, New York City, closely associated with the neighborhood’s African American cultural and religious life.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
138th Street