West 34th Street runs east–west
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West 34th Street runs east–west is a major crosstown street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for landmarks such as the Empire State Building and Penn Station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| West 34th Street runs east–west canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8165684 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West 34th Street runs east–west Context triple: [Eighth Avenue and West 34th Street, streetOrientation, West 34th Street runs east–west]
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A.
Eighth Avenue and West 34th Street
Eighth Avenue and West 34th Street is a busy Midtown Manhattan intersection near Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, serving as a major transit and commercial hub in New York City.
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B.
West 40th Street and Sixth Avenue
West 40th Street and Sixth Avenue is a busy Midtown Manhattan intersection near Bryant Park that serves as a street-level access point to the New York City Subway.
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C.
West 40th Street
West 40th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, running near landmarks such as the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Bryant Park.
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D.
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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E.
East 14th Street, Manhattan
East 14th Street in Manhattan is a major east–west thoroughfare near Union Square that has historically hosted important political and commercial institutions, including the former headquarters of Tammany Hall.
- 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: West 34th Street runs east–west Target entity description: West 34th Street runs east–west is a major crosstown street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for landmarks such as the Empire State Building and Penn Station.
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Eighth Avenue and West 34th Street
Eighth Avenue and West 34th Street is a busy Midtown Manhattan intersection near Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, serving as a major transit and commercial hub in New York City.
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B.
West 40th Street and Sixth Avenue
West 40th Street and Sixth Avenue is a busy Midtown Manhattan intersection near Bryant Park that serves as a street-level access point to the New York City Subway.
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C.
West 40th Street
West 40th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, running near landmarks such as the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Bryant Park.
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D.
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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E.
East 14th Street, Manhattan
East 14th Street in Manhattan is a major east–west thoroughfare near Union Square that has historically hosted important political and commercial institutions, including the former headquarters of Tammany Hall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crosstown street
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street ⓘ thoroughfare ⓘ |
| hasBorough | Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBoroughBlockSystem | part of Manhattan’s numbered streets system ⓘ |
| hasCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| hasFunction |
commercial corridor
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retail corridor ⓘ transportation corridor ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Empire State Building
NERFINISHED
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Herald Square NERFINISHED ⓘ Macy's Herald Square NERFINISHED ⓘ Manhattan Mall NERFINISHED ⓘ Penn Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNeighborhood | Koreatown, Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBuilding |
Empire State Building
NERFINISHED
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Macy's Herald Square NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberingSystem | West 34th Street is numbered west of Fifth Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeArea |
10001
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10018 ⓘ 10019 ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransitHub |
34th Street–Herald Square (BMT/IND)
NERFINISHED
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34th Street–Penn Station (IND Eighth Avenue Line) NERFINISHED ⓘ 34th Street–Penn Station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) NERFINISHED ⓘ Penn Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Empire State Building
NERFINISHED
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Herald Square NERFINISHED ⓘ Koreatown, Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ Macy's Herald Square NERFINISHED ⓘ Manhattan Mall NERFINISHED ⓘ Penn Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
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Midtown Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf | Manhattan street grid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Broadway
NERFINISHED
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Eighth Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ Fifth Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ Madison Square Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ Seventh Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ Sixth Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: West 34th Street runs east–west Description of subject: West 34th Street runs east–west is a major crosstown street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for landmarks such as the Empire State Building and Penn Station.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.