S (historical map designation)
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S (historical map designation) is a former New York City Subway route label that was historically used on maps to denote the 42nd Street Shuttle service in Manhattan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| S (historical map designation) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T680904 — 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: S (historical map designation) Context triple: [42nd Street Shuttle, hasRouteNumber, S (historical map designation)]
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A.
Mapah
Mapah is Rabbi Moses Isserles’s glosses on the Shulchan Aruch, integrating Ashkenazi customs and rulings into that foundational Jewish legal code.
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B.
MAP
MAP was the abbreviated name used for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Aircraft Production, the World War II government department responsible for overseeing and increasing aircraft manufacturing.
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C.
Mapai
Mapai was a dominant left-wing labor Zionist political party in pre-state and early Israel that played a central role in founding and governing the country.
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D.
Taihoku
Taihoku was the Japanese colonial-era name for Taipei, which served as the administrative and political center of Taiwan under Japanese rule.
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E.
Manche
Manche is a coastal department in the Normandy region of northwestern France, known for its rugged shoreline along the English Channel and historic sites such as Mont-Saint-Michel.
- 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: S (historical map designation) Target entity description: S (historical map designation) is a former New York City Subway route label that was historically used on maps to denote the 42nd Street Shuttle service in Manhattan.
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A.
Mapah
Mapah is Rabbi Moses Isserles’s glosses on the Shulchan Aruch, integrating Ashkenazi customs and rulings into that foundational Jewish legal code.
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B.
MAP
MAP was the abbreviated name used for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Aircraft Production, the World War II government department responsible for overseeing and increasing aircraft manufacturing.
-
C.
Mapai
Mapai was a dominant left-wing labor Zionist political party in pre-state and early Israel that played a central role in founding and governing the country.
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D.
Taihoku
Taihoku was the Japanese colonial-era name for Taipei, which served as the administrative and political center of Taiwan under Japanese rule.
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E.
Manche
Manche is a coastal department in the Normandy region of northwestern France, known for its rugged shoreline along the English Channel and historic sites such as Mont-Saint-Michel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New York City Subway service designation
ⓘ
transportation route label ⓘ |
| appliesTo | 42nd Street Shuttle ⓘ |
| associatedLine | 42nd Street Shuttle ⓘ |
| boroughServed | Manhattan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| denotesRouteBetween |
Grand Central–42nd Street station
ⓘ
surface form:
Grand Central–42nd Street
Times Square–42nd Street subway station ⓘ
surface form:
Times Square–42nd Street
|
| historicalRole | identified the 42nd Street Shuttle before current S service notation conventions ⓘ |
| lineColor | gray (shuttle color family on maps) ⓘ |
| location | Manhattan ⓘ |
| mapContext | New York City Subway route map ⓘ |
| mapUsage | historically used on New York City Subway maps ⓘ |
| networkOperator | New York City Transit Authority ⓘ |
| notationForm | single-letter route symbol ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| railGauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| refersTo | 42nd Street Shuttle service in Manhattan ⓘ |
| replacedBy | S (New York City Subway service) ⓘ |
| routeType | shuttle ⓘ |
| servicePattern |
42nd Street Shuttle
ⓘ
surface form:
Times Square–Grand Central shuttle
|
| serviceType | shuttle service designation ⓘ |
| status | former designation ⓘ |
| system | New York City Subway ⓘ |
| trackConfiguration | shuttle-only trackage on 42nd Street ⓘ |
| transportMode | rapid transit ⓘ |
| usedFor | denoting the 42nd Street Shuttle ⓘ |
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: S (historical map designation) Description of subject: S (historical map designation) is a former New York City Subway route label that was historically used on maps to denote the 42nd Street Shuttle service in Manhattan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.