Washington, D.C. street numbering system
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The Washington, D.C. street numbering system is a grid-based scheme that organizes streets numerically and alphabetically radiating from the U.S. Capitol, using quadrants to designate location.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Washington, D.C. street numbering system canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6249437 — 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: Washington, D.C. street numbering system Context triple: [18th Street NW, isNumberedBy, Washington, D.C. street numbering system]
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A.
U Street Corridor
U Street Corridor is a historic and culturally vibrant neighborhood in Washington, D.C., long known as a center of African American arts, music, and nightlife.
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B.
First Street Corridor
First Street Corridor is a mixed-use commercial and residential area in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its shops, offices, and urban streetscape near Lechmere Square.
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C.
L Street
L Street is a major thoroughfare in downtown Sacramento, California, known for running past the California State Capitol and connecting key civic and commercial areas of the city.
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D.
H Street Corridor
H Street Corridor is a revitalized commercial and entertainment district in Northeast Washington, D.C., known for its nightlife, restaurants, arts venues, and historic streetcar route.
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E.
Bode Thomas Street
Bode Thomas Street is a prominent commercial and residential thoroughfare in the Surulere area of Lagos, Nigeria, known for its busy shops, offices, and nightlife.
- 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: Washington, D.C. street numbering system Target entity description: The Washington, D.C. street numbering system is a grid-based scheme that organizes streets numerically and alphabetically radiating from the U.S. Capitol, using quadrants to designate location.
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A.
U Street Corridor
U Street Corridor is a historic and culturally vibrant neighborhood in Washington, D.C., long known as a center of African American arts, music, and nightlife.
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B.
First Street Corridor
First Street Corridor is a mixed-use commercial and residential area in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its shops, offices, and urban streetscape near Lechmere Square.
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C.
L Street
L Street is a major thoroughfare in downtown Sacramento, California, known for running past the California State Capitol and connecting key civic and commercial areas of the city.
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D.
H Street Corridor
H Street Corridor is a revitalized commercial and entertainment district in Northeast Washington, D.C., known for its nightlife, restaurants, arts venues, and historic streetcar route.
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E.
Bode Thomas Street
Bode Thomas Street is a prominent commercial and residential thoroughfare in the Surulere area of Lagos, Nigeria, known for its busy shops, offices, and nightlife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street addressing system
ⓘ
urban grid system ⓘ |
| addressFormatIncludes | quadrant suffix ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centeredOn | United States Capitol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| covers | most of District of Columbia ⓘ |
| designedWithin | L’Enfant Plan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distinguishesDuplicateStreetNamesBy | quadrant designation ⓘ |
| exceptionAreasInclude |
Anacostia historic core
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Georgetown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal | facilitate navigation by quadrant and distance ⓘ |
| hasFeature | radial avenues intersecting orthogonal grid ⓘ |
| houseNumberBase | distance from Capitol ⓘ |
| houseNumbersIncrease | away from Capitol along a street ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Pierre Charles L’Enfant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| letteredStreetsDirection | A Street near Capitol outward alphabetically ⓘ |
| letteredStreetsIncrease | away from Capitol ⓘ |
| numberedStreetsDirection | 1st Street near Capitol outward numerically ⓘ |
| numberedStreetsIncrease | away from Capitol ⓘ |
| omitsLetter |
I
ⓘ
J ⓘ X ⓘ Y ⓘ Z ⓘ |
| primaryOrigin |
Capitol building
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Capitol grounds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| quadrantBoundary |
East Capitol Street
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Mall NERFINISHED ⓘ North Capitol Street NERFINISHED ⓘ South Capitol Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| quadrantSuffixExamples |
NE
ⓘ
NW ⓘ SE ⓘ SW ⓘ |
| stateAvenuesRadiateFrom |
Capitol
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
White House NERFINISHED ⓘ other key circles and squares ⓘ |
| usedBy |
District of Columbia government
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Postal Service in Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesAlphabet | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usesLetteredStreets | east–west streets ⓘ |
| usesNumberedStreets | north–south streets ⓘ |
| usesQuadrants |
Northeast
ⓘ
Northwest ⓘ Southeast ⓘ Southwest ⓘ |
| usesStateNamedAvenues | diagonal streets ⓘ |
| usesThreeSyllableStreetNames | after second alphabet cycle ⓘ |
| usesTwoSyllableStreetNames | after first alphabet cycle ⓘ |
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: Washington, D.C. street numbering system Description of subject: The Washington, D.C. street numbering system is a grid-based scheme that organizes streets numerically and alphabetically radiating from the U.S. Capitol, using quadrants to designate location.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.