Broadway (Brooklyn)
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Broadway (Brooklyn) is a major thoroughfare in Brooklyn, New York City, running through neighborhoods such as Williamsburg and Bushwick and serving as a key commercial and transit corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Broadway (Brooklyn) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11599034 — 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: Broadway (Brooklyn) Context triple: [Fulton Street, crosses, Broadway (Brooklyn)]
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Broadway (Queens)
Broadway (Queens) is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Queens that runs through several neighborhoods, serving as a key commercial and transit corridor.
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B.
Broadway (Bronx)
Broadway (Bronx) is the northern stretch of New York City’s famous Broadway thoroughfare as it runs through the Bronx, serving as a major commercial and transportation corridor in the borough.
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C.
Broadway (Chelsea)
Broadway (Chelsea) is a major thoroughfare and commercial corridor in Chelsea, Massachusetts, serving as a key route for public transit and local businesses.
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D.
Broadway (Manhattan street)
Broadway (Manhattan street) is a major thoroughfare in Manhattan renowned as the historic heart of New York City's theater scene and a central artery of its cultural and commercial life.
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E.
The Broadway
The Broadway is a notable central street and commercial area in the town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire, known for its shops and local amenities.
- 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: Broadway (Brooklyn) Target entity description: Broadway (Brooklyn) is a major thoroughfare in Brooklyn, New York City, running through neighborhoods such as Williamsburg and Bushwick and serving as a key commercial and transit corridor.
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A.
Broadway (Queens)
Broadway (Queens) is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Queens that runs through several neighborhoods, serving as a key commercial and transit corridor.
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B.
Broadway (Bronx)
Broadway (Bronx) is the northern stretch of New York City’s famous Broadway thoroughfare as it runs through the Bronx, serving as a major commercial and transportation corridor in the borough.
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C.
Broadway (Chelsea)
Broadway (Chelsea) is a major thoroughfare and commercial corridor in Chelsea, Massachusetts, serving as a key route for public transit and local businesses.
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D.
Broadway (Manhattan street)
Broadway (Manhattan street) is a major thoroughfare in Manhattan renowned as the historic heart of New York City's theater scene and a central artery of its cultural and commercial life.
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E.
The Broadway
The Broadway is a notable central street and commercial area in the town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire, known for its shops and local amenities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street in New York City
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thoroughfare ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Williamsburg Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossesBoroughBoundaryWith | Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandUseAlong |
apartment buildings
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industrial and warehouse spaces ⓘ mixed commercial and residential buildings ⓘ retail storefronts ⓘ |
| hasNeighborhoodAlongRoute |
Bedford–Stuyvesant
NERFINISHED
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Bushwick NERFINISHED ⓘ East New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Williamsburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | generally northeast–southwest ⓘ |
| hasRole |
boundary between Bushwick and Bedford–Stuyvesant in some segments
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boundary between Williamsburg and Bedford–Stuyvesant in some segments ⓘ |
| hasStructureAbove | BMT Jamaica Line elevated tracks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubwayStationAlong |
Broadway Junction station
NERFINISHED
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Flushing Avenue station NERFINISHED ⓘ Gates Avenue station NERFINISHED ⓘ Halsey Street station (J line) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hewes Street station NERFINISHED ⓘ Kosciuszko Street station NERFINISHED ⓘ Lorimer Street station NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcy Avenue station NERFINISHED ⓘ Myrtle Avenue station (J/M/Z) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intersects | Williamsburg Bridge Plaza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isImportantFor |
local bus routes
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regional connectivity between Brooklyn and Queens ⓘ |
| isMajor |
commercial corridor
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transit corridor ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| nameSharesEtymologyWith | Broadway (Manhattan) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
New York City street network
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borough of Brooklyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughCommunityDistrict |
Brooklyn Community District 1
NERFINISHED
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Brooklyn Community District 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Brooklyn Community District 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Brooklyn Community District 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedBySubwayService |
J train
NERFINISHED
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Z train NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedByTransitLine | BMT Jamaica Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local commerce
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public transit ⓘ retail ⓘ vehicular traffic ⓘ |
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: Broadway (Brooklyn) Description of subject: Broadway (Brooklyn) is a major thoroughfare in Brooklyn, New York City, running through neighborhoods such as Williamsburg and Bushwick and serving as a key commercial and transit corridor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.