Western Avenue NW
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Western Avenue NW is a major boundary street in Washington, D.C., running along parts of the city’s northwest border with Maryland and intersecting several key arterial roads.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Avenue NW canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4716139 — 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: Western Avenue NW Context triple: [Wisconsin Avenue NW, hasMajorIntersectionWith, Western Avenue NW]
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A.
Porter Street NW
Porter Street NW is a residential and commuter street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running east–west through neighborhoods such as Cleveland Park and connecting with several major north–south avenues.
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B.
Arkansas Avenue NW
Arkansas Avenue NW is a major diagonal thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running along the edge of the Petworth neighborhood and connecting it to other parts of the city.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Canal Road NW
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.
- 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: Western Avenue NW Target entity description: Western Avenue NW is a major boundary street in Washington, D.C., running along parts of the city’s northwest border with Maryland and intersecting several key arterial roads.
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A.
Porter Street NW
Porter Street NW is a residential and commuter street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running east–west through neighborhoods such as Cleveland Park and connecting with several major north–south avenues.
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B.
Arkansas Avenue NW
Arkansas Avenue NW is a major diagonal thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running along the edge of the Petworth neighborhood and connecting it to other parts of the city.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Canal Road NW
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boundary street
ⓘ
street ⓘ |
| adjacentToNeighborhood |
Barnaby Woods
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chevy Chase, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Friendship Heights NERFINISHED ⓘ Friendship Village, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawthorne NERFINISHED ⓘ Somerset, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bordersJurisdiction | Montgomery County government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo | regional road network in Maryland ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followsGeneralOrientation | east–west ⓘ |
| formsBorderBetween |
Montgomery County, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prince George's County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsBorderWith | Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdjacentLandUse |
commercial nodes
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| hasDirectionSuffix | NW ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
arterial road connector
ⓘ
city boundary ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | District of Columbia government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple travel lanes in segments ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named for its position on the western edge of the city ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeRange |
20015
ⓘ
20016 ⓘ |
| hasStreetType | avenue ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceType | paved ⓘ |
| hasTrafficControl | signalized intersections at major crossings ⓘ |
| intersects |
16th Street NW
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Connecticut Avenue NW NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgia Avenue NW NERFINISHED ⓘ Military Road NW NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon Avenue NW NERFINISHED ⓘ River Road NW NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Avenue (Chevy Chase, Maryland) access streets ⓘ Wisconsin Avenue NW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMaintainedBy | District Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMajorBoundary | northwestern border of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork | Washington, D.C. street grid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Northwest Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| partOf | Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bus routes
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local access ⓘ motor vehicle 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: Western Avenue NW Description of subject: Western Avenue NW is a major boundary street in Washington, D.C., running along parts of the city’s northwest border with Maryland and intersecting several key arterial roads.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.