Howard Street (Baltimore)
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Howard Street (Baltimore) is a major north–south thoroughfare through downtown Baltimore that serves as a key corridor for the city’s light rail system and commercial activity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Street (Baltimore) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T159620 — 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: Howard Street (Baltimore) Context triple: [Baltimore Light RailLink, runsAlong, Howard Street (Baltimore)]
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A.
Baltimore Avenue
Baltimore Avenue is a major thoroughfare in West Philadelphia known for hosting street-running trolley service as part of SEPTA’s Subway–Surface lines.
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B.
Lancaster Avenue
Lancaster Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Philadelphia that serves as a key commercial and transit corridor through the University City area and beyond.
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C.
Mason Street
Mason Street is a well-known thoroughfare in San Francisco that forms part of the historic cable car routes running through the city.
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D.
Phipps Street
Phipps Street is a street in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, historically associated with the adjacent Phipps Street Burying Ground.
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E.
Spruce Street
Spruce Street is a major thoroughfare running through University City in Philadelphia, known for serving the nearby universities and residential neighborhoods.
- 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: Howard Street (Baltimore) Target entity description: Howard Street (Baltimore) is a major north–south thoroughfare through downtown Baltimore that serves as a key corridor for the city’s light rail system and commercial activity.
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A.
Baltimore Avenue
Baltimore Avenue is a major thoroughfare in West Philadelphia known for hosting street-running trolley service as part of SEPTA’s Subway–Surface lines.
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B.
Lancaster Avenue
Lancaster Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Philadelphia that serves as a key commercial and transit corridor through the University City area and beyond.
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C.
Mason Street
Mason Street is a well-known thoroughfare in San Francisco that forms part of the historic cable car routes running through the city.
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D.
Phipps Street
Phipps Street is a street in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, historically associated with the adjacent Phipps Street Burying Ground.
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E.
Spruce Street
Spruce Street is a major thoroughfare running through University City in Philadelphia, known for serving the nearby universities and residential neighborhoods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ transportation corridor ⓘ |
| city | Baltimore ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFunction |
connects commercial districts
ⓘ
supports downtown circulation ⓘ |
| hasIntersectionWith |
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard vicinity
ⓘ
West Baltimore Street ⓘ West Centre Street ⓘ West Fayette Street ⓘ West Franklin Street ⓘ West Lexington Street ⓘ Madison Street ⓘ
surface form:
West Madison Street
West Mulberry Street ⓘ West Saratoga Street ⓘ |
| hasLandUseAlong |
institutional
ⓘ
office ⓘ retail ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple traffic lanes ⓘ |
| hasMedian | light rail alignment ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named after John Eager Howard ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransit |
bus routes
ⓘ
light rail ⓘ |
| hasRailTracks | light rail tracks ⓘ |
| isDowntownAxis | yes ⓘ |
| isMajor | yes ⓘ |
| isPartOfTransitSystem |
Maryland Transit Administration
ⓘ
surface form:
Maryland Transit Administration light rail system
|
| knownFor |
commercial activity
ⓘ
transit access ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baltimore
ⓘ
Maryland ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| near |
Hippodrome Theatre
ⓘ
Royal Farms Arena ⓘ University of Maryland, Baltimore campus ⓘ |
| partOf |
Baltimore central business district infrastructure
ⓘ
Baltimore street network ⓘ |
| passesThrough | downtown Baltimore ⓘ |
| roadType | urban arterial ⓘ |
| roleInCity | key downtown spine ⓘ |
| roleInEconomy | supports downtown commerce ⓘ |
| runsDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| servesAs |
commercial corridor
ⓘ
light rail corridor ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| usedBy | Baltimore Light Rail ⓘ |
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: Howard Street (Baltimore) Description of subject: Howard Street (Baltimore) is a major north–south thoroughfare through downtown Baltimore that serves as a key corridor for the city’s light rail system and commercial activity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.