Midtown
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Midtown is a major commercial and entertainment district in central Manhattan, New York City, known for its dense concentration of skyscrapers, corporate headquarters, and iconic landmarks like Times Square.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Midtown canonical | 8 |
| Midtown business district | 4 |
| East Midtown | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T680903 — 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: Midtown Context triple: [42nd Street Shuttle, neighborhood, Midtown]
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A.
Midtown West
Midtown West is a neighborhood on the west side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, known for its mix of residential high-rises, commercial buildings, and proximity to major attractions like Times Square and the Theater District.
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B.
Midtown South
Midtown South is a central Manhattan commercial and residential district known for its dense office buildings, hotels, and proximity to major transit and shopping hubs.
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C.
Buckhead
Buckhead is an affluent, upscale district in Atlanta known for its luxury shopping, dining, and high-rise residential and commercial developments.
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D.
Mosaic District
Mosaic District is a mixed-use urban neighborhood and shopping destination in Merrifield, Virginia, known for its upscale retail, dining, entertainment, and walkable, community-focused design.
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E.
Miracle Mile district
The Miracle Mile district is a historic, museum-rich stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles known for its Art Deco architecture and cultural institutions.
- 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: Midtown Target entity description: Midtown is a major commercial and entertainment district in central Manhattan, New York City, known for its dense concentration of skyscrapers, corporate headquarters, and iconic landmarks like Times Square.
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A.
Midtown West
Midtown West is a neighborhood on the west side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, known for its mix of residential high-rises, commercial buildings, and proximity to major attractions like Times Square and the Theater District.
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B.
Midtown South
Midtown South is a central Manhattan commercial and residential district known for its dense office buildings, hotels, and proximity to major transit and shopping hubs.
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C.
Buckhead
Buckhead is an affluent, upscale district in Atlanta known for its luxury shopping, dining, and high-rise residential and commercial developments.
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D.
Mosaic District
Mosaic District is a mixed-use urban neighborhood and shopping destination in Merrifield, Virginia, known for its upscale retail, dining, entertainment, and walkable, community-focused design.
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E.
Miracle Mile district
The Miracle Mile district is a historic, museum-rich stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles known for its Art Deco architecture and cultural institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business district
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commercial district ⓘ entertainment district ⓘ neighborhood ⓘ |
| contains |
Broadway Theatre District
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surface form:
Broadway Theater District
Bryant Park ⓘ Chrysler Building ⓘ Empire State Building ⓘ Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City ⓘ
surface form:
Fifth Avenue shopping district
Garment District ⓘ Grand Central Terminal ⓘ Hell's Kitchen ⓘ Herald Square ⓘ Hudson Yards area ⓘ Madison Square Garden ⓘ Midtown East ⓘ Midtown West ⓘ Murray Hill ⓘ Penn Station (New York City) ⓘ
surface form:
Penn Station
Rockefeller Center ⓘ Times Square ⓘ Turtle Bay ⓘ United Nations Headquarters vicinity ⓘ |
| economicRole |
major center for finance and corporate services
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major center for media and advertising ⓘ primary central business district of New York City ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
heavy pedestrian traffic
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high-rise office buildings ⓘ major tourist destination ⓘ major transportation hub ⓘ mixed-use development ⓘ |
| hasLandmarkType | skyscraper cluster ⓘ |
| hasNotableStreet |
42nd Street
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Broadway ⓘ Fifth Avenue ⓘ Seventh Avenue ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Broadway Theatre District
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surface form:
Broadway theater district
Times Square ⓘ corporate headquarters ⓘ dense concentration of skyscrapers ⓘ entertainment venues ⓘ iconic landmarks ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| partOf |
borough of Manhattan
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surface form:
Borough of Manhattan
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| servedBy |
New York City Subway
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Port Authority Bus Terminal vicinity ⓘ |
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: Midtown Description of subject: Midtown is a major commercial and entertainment district in central Manhattan, New York City, known for its dense concentration of skyscrapers, corporate headquarters, and iconic landmarks like Times Square.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
East Midtown
this entity surface form:
Midtown business district
subject surface form:
1211 Avenue of the Americas
this entity surface form:
Midtown business district
this entity surface form:
Midtown business district
Fifth Avenue–Bryant Park (via passage to 42nd Street–Bryant Park complex)
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neighborhood
→
Midtown
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subject surface form:
Fifth Avenue–Bryant Park
this entity surface form:
Midtown business district