Barbary Lane boarding house
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The Barbary Lane boarding house is a fictional, bohemian apartment complex in San Francisco that serves as the central communal setting for the characters in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Barbary Lane boarding house canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11465757 — 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: Barbary Lane boarding house Context triple: [Tales of the City, literarySetting, Barbary Lane boarding house]
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A.
Hospitality House
Hospitality House is the central guest services and check-in complex at Disney’s Old Key West Resort, featuring the main lobby, dining, and recreational amenities.
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B.
Gadsby’s Hotel
Gadsby’s Hotel is a historic inn in Alexandria, Virginia, that served as a prominent social and political gathering place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Etta Place
Etta Place was a mysterious American outlaw best known as the companion of the Sundance Kid and associate of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch at the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
The Nutt House
The Nutt House is a 1992 American comedy film featuring Ann Magnuson in a prominent role.
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E.
Surratt Tavern
Surratt Tavern is a historic 19th-century Maryland roadside inn best known for its association with Mary Surratt and the conspiracy surrounding President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
- 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: Barbary Lane boarding house Target entity description: The Barbary Lane boarding house is a fictional, bohemian apartment complex in San Francisco that serves as the central communal setting for the characters in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series.
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A.
Hospitality House
Hospitality House is the central guest services and check-in complex at Disney’s Old Key West Resort, featuring the main lobby, dining, and recreational amenities.
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B.
Gadsby’s Hotel
Gadsby’s Hotel is a historic inn in Alexandria, Virginia, that served as a prominent social and political gathering place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Etta Place
Etta Place was a mysterious American outlaw best known as the companion of the Sundance Kid and associate of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch at the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
The Nutt House
The Nutt House is a 1992 American comedy film featuring Ann Magnuson in a prominent role.
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E.
Surratt Tavern
Surratt Tavern is a historic 19th-century Maryland roadside inn best known for its association with Mary Surratt and the conspiracy surrounding President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
apartment complex
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fictional boarding house ⓘ fictional location ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City (2019 TV series)
NERFINISHED
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Further Tales of the City (television miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ More Tales of the City (television miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of the City (novel series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of the City (television miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
LGBTQ+ community
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chosen family ⓘ counterculture ⓘ sexual liberation ⓘ urban life in 1970s San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Armistead Maupin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | iconic fictional representation of San Francisco ⓘ |
| fictionalLocationIn | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalStreetAddress | 28 Barbary Lane ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Tales of the City (1978 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | San Francisco Chronicle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | bohemian setting ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationContext | television drama ⓘ |
| landladyInFiction | Anna Madrigal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenreContext |
LGBTQ+ literature
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contemporary fiction ⓘ |
| mediumOfOrigin | newspaper serial ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | central communal setting ⓘ |
| notableResidentInFiction |
Brian Hawkins
NERFINISHED
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Mary Ann Singleton NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Tolliver NERFINISHED ⓘ Mona Ramsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownerInFiction | Anna Madrigal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOf |
Babycakes
NERFINISHED
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Further Tales of the City NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Ann in Autumn NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Tolliver Lives NERFINISHED ⓘ More Tales of the City NERFINISHED ⓘ Significant Others NERFINISHED ⓘ Sure of You NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of the City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Days of Anna Madrigal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ 21st century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Barbary Lane boarding house Description of subject: The Barbary Lane boarding house is a fictional, bohemian apartment complex in San Francisco that serves as the central communal setting for the characters in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.