Ladd's Addition
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Ladd's Addition is a historic, early 20th-century residential neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, known for its distinctive diagonal street grid, central rose garden, and well-preserved Craftsman and bungalow-style homes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ladd's Addition canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5437319 — 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: Ladd's Addition Context triple: [Inner Southeast Portland, containsNeighborhood, Ladd's Addition]
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Sumas
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Addizione Erculea
Addizione Erculea is a Renaissance urban expansion plan that transformed Ferrara into one of the first modern planned cities in Europe.
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Prutenic Tables
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Sum It Up
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- 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: Ladd's Addition Target entity description: Ladd's Addition is a historic, early 20th-century residential neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, known for its distinctive diagonal street grid, central rose garden, and well-preserved Craftsman and bungalow-style homes.
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A.
Sumas
Sumas is a small border town in northwestern Washington State, located adjacent to Canada and known as a key U.S.–Canada crossing point.
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B.
Napier's bones
Napier's bones are a manually operated calculating device using numbered rods to simplify and speed up multiplication and division.
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C.
Addizione Erculea
Addizione Erculea is a Renaissance urban expansion plan that transformed Ferrara into one of the first modern planned cities in Europe.
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D.
Prutenic Tables
The Prutenic Tables were influential 16th-century astronomical tables based on Copernican heliocentric theory, used for predicting planetary positions before being superseded by more accurate works like the Rudolphine Tables.
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E.
Sum It Up
Sum It Up is the memoir of legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt, chronicling her life, career, and impact on women's sports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic district
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residential neighborhood ⓘ streetcar suburb ⓘ |
| addedToNationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces | 1988 ⓘ |
| bicycleFriendly | true ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| designedBy | William S. Ladd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developmentBegan | 1890s ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| governedBy | City of Portland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
Bungalow
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Colonial Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ Craftsman ⓘ Mission Revival ⓘ Prairie School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType |
duplexes
ⓘ
single-family houses ⓘ small apartment buildings ⓘ |
| hasCulturalValue | representative of early 20th-century middle-class housing in Portland ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central rose garden
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four diamond-shaped rose gardens ⓘ traffic circles ⓘ tree-lined streets ⓘ |
| hasGreenSpace | Ladd Circle Park and Rose Gardens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeDesign | formal rose gardens integrated into street plan ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | predominantly low-density residential ⓘ |
| hasPlanFeature | central traffic circle at Ladd Circle ⓘ |
| hasPlanningConcept | diagonal avenues intersecting orthogonal streets ⓘ |
| hasStreetPlan | diagonal street grid ⓘ |
| hasUrbanForm | planned subdivision ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Register of Historic Places historic district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinctive diagonal street layout within Portland’s grid
ⓘ
historic rose gardens ⓘ well-preserved early 20th-century houses ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Portland, Oregon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southeast Portland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Multnomah County, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorDevelopmentPeriod | 1905–1930 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William S. Ladd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Buckman neighborhood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | well-preserved historic neighborhood ⓘ |
| transportationEra | streetcar era ⓘ |
| urbanDesignSignificance | one of Portland’s earliest planned residential developments ⓘ |
| zoningType | primarily residential ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ladd's Addition Description of subject: Ladd's Addition is a historic, early 20th-century residential neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, known for its distinctive diagonal street grid, central rose garden, and well-preserved Craftsman and bungalow-style homes.
Referenced by (1)
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