Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street, Manhattan
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Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street in Manhattan is a busy Upper East Side intersection known as a major commercial hub and transit node centered around the 86th Street station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street, Manhattan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8038080 — 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: Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street, Manhattan Context triple: [86th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), address, Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street, Manhattan]
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A.
59th Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York City
59th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan is a major commercial intersection on the Upper East Side of New York City, best known as a prominent retail hub anchored by Bloomingdale’s.
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B.
East 47th Street, Manhattan
East 47th Street in Manhattan is a midtown east–west thoroughfare notable for hosting cultural institutions, offices, and residential buildings, including the Japan Society in New York.
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C.
Fifth Avenue and 105th Street
Fifth Avenue and 105th Street is a Manhattan intersection along Central Park’s eastern edge that serves as a main entrance to the Conservatory Garden.
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D.
Lexington Avenue–63rd Street
Lexington Avenue–63rd Street is a New York City Subway station complex on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that serves as a key transfer point between the IND and BMT lines.
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E.
Lexington Avenue–Eastern Parkway corridor
The Lexington Avenue–Eastern Parkway corridor is a major trunk route of the New York City Subway in Manhattan and Brooklyn that carries several IRT lines along one of the system’s busiest north–south/east–west axes.
- 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: Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street, Manhattan Target entity description: Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street in Manhattan is a busy Upper East Side intersection known as a major commercial hub and transit node centered around the 86th Street station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.
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A.
59th Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York City
59th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan is a major commercial intersection on the Upper East Side of New York City, best known as a prominent retail hub anchored by Bloomingdale’s.
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B.
East 47th Street, Manhattan
East 47th Street in Manhattan is a midtown east–west thoroughfare notable for hosting cultural institutions, offices, and residential buildings, including the Japan Society in New York.
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C.
Fifth Avenue and 105th Street
Fifth Avenue and 105th Street is a Manhattan intersection along Central Park’s eastern edge that serves as a main entrance to the Conservatory Garden.
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D.
Lexington Avenue–63rd Street
Lexington Avenue–63rd Street is a New York City Subway station complex on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that serves as a key transfer point between the IND and BMT lines.
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E.
Lexington Avenue–Eastern Parkway corridor
The Lexington Avenue–Eastern Parkway corridor is a major trunk route of the New York City Subway in Manhattan and Brooklyn that carries several IRT lines along one of the system’s busiest north–south/east–west axes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial district
ⓘ
street intersection ⓘ transportation hub ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
ground-floor retail
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mid-rise apartment buildings ⓘ |
| economicRole |
local shopping destination
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regional transit access point ⓘ |
| governedBy | New York City Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBorough | Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCrossStreet |
East 86th Street
NERFINISHED
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Lexington Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAmenity |
banks
ⓘ
pharmacies ⓘ restaurants ⓘ retail stores ⓘ supermarkets ⓘ |
| hasNearbyBusService | MTA New York City Bus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyLandUse |
commercial
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| hasNearbySubwayStation | 86th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTransit | MTA New York City Subway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrafficType |
pedestrian traffic
ⓘ
vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| isMajorNodeFor |
Upper East Side shopping
ⓘ
Upper East Side transit connections ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dense retail development
ⓘ
heavy pedestrian traffic ⓘ proximity to 86th Street subway station ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Upper East Side NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyNeighborhood |
Carnegie Hill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yorkville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Manhattan street grid
ⓘ
Upper East Side retail corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedBySubwayLine |
4 train
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
5 train NERFINISHED ⓘ 6 train NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| streetOrientation |
East 86th Street runs east–west
NERFINISHED
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Lexington Avenue runs north–south NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| zonedAs | commercial area ⓘ |
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: Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street, Manhattan Description of subject: Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street in Manhattan is a busy Upper East Side intersection known as a major commercial hub and transit node centered around the 86th Street station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
86th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)