Broad Street
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Broad Street is a major thoroughfare in Seattle, Washington, known for connecting the downtown area to the waterfront and key attractions like the Space Needle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broad Street canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5377785 — 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: Broad Street Context triple: [Alaskan Way, hasIntersectionWith, Broad Street]
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A.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a former elevated terminal station in Lower Manhattan that once served as the southern terminus for New York City's BMT Nassau Street Line J train.
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B.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a historically significant thoroughfare in Selma, Alabama, known for its role in the civil rights movement and its collection of notable historic buildings.
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C.
Broad Street Extension
Broad Street Extension is a segment of the Newark Light Rail system that connects Newark Penn Station with Newark Broad Street Station, enhancing transit access through downtown Newark, New Jersey.
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D.
Broad Street (Philadelphia)
Broad Street (Philadelphia) is a major north–south thoroughfare and one of the city’s primary streets, known for landmarks like City Hall and the Avenue of the Arts.
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E.
Hancock Street
Hancock Street is a major thoroughfare in Quincy, Massachusetts, lined with shops, businesses, and residential buildings and serving as a key local connector.
- 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: Broad Street Target entity description: Broad Street is a major thoroughfare in Seattle, Washington, known for connecting the downtown area to the waterfront and key attractions like the Space Needle.
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A.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a former elevated terminal station in Lower Manhattan that once served as the southern terminus for New York City's BMT Nassau Street Line J train.
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B.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a historically significant thoroughfare in Selma, Alabama, known for its role in the civil rights movement and its collection of notable historic buildings.
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C.
Broad Street Extension
Broad Street Extension is a segment of the Newark Light Rail system that connects Newark Penn Station with Newark Broad Street Station, enhancing transit access through downtown Newark, New Jersey.
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D.
Broad Street (Philadelphia)
Broad Street (Philadelphia) is a major north–south thoroughfare and one of the city’s primary streets, known for landmarks like City Hall and the Avenue of the Arts.
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E.
Hancock Street
Hancock Street is a major thoroughfare in Quincy, Massachusetts, lined with shops, businesses, and residential buildings and serving as a key local connector.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Downtown Seattle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seattle Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle waterfront NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Needle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasDirection | east–west orientation (primarily) ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
5th Avenue North (Seattle)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
6th Avenue North (Seattle) NERFINISHED ⓘ Alaskan Way (Seattle) NERFINISHED ⓘ Aurora Avenue North (State Route 99) NERFINISHED ⓘ Denny Way (Seattle) NERFINISHED ⓘ Taylor Avenue North (Seattle) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyLandmark |
Belltown neighborhood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elliott Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Olympic Sculpture Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Anne neighborhood NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle waterfront piers NERFINISHED ⓘ South Lake Union neighborhood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
connecting downtown Seattle to the waterfront
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providing access to Seattle Center attractions ⓘ providing access to the Space Needle ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Belltown, Seattle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Downtown Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ Lower Queen Anne, Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle waterfront area ⓘ South Lake Union, Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| near |
Chihuly Garden and Glass
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Climate Pledge Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ Museum of Pop Culture NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Science Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle Center Monorail NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Needle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Seattle street network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| transportationType | urban arterial road ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local access to tourist attractions
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vehicular 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: Broad Street Description of subject: Broad Street is a major thoroughfare in Seattle, Washington, known for connecting the downtown area to the waterfront and key attractions like the Space Needle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.