Kearny Street
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Kearny Street is a major historic thoroughfare in San Francisco that runs through downtown and Chinatown, lined with shops, offices, and cultural landmarks.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kearny Street canonical | 3 |
| Kearny Street and Columbus Avenue | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T589729 — 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: Kearny Street Context triple: [Portsmouth Square, nearby, Kearny Street]
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A.
Monroe Street
Monroe Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Chicago, Illinois, running through the city’s central business and cultural districts.
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B.
Vallejo Street
Vallejo Street is a notable San Francisco street that runs through several neighborhoods, including the steep and scenic Russian Hill area.
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C.
Columbus Avenue
Columbus Avenue is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for running through the North Beach neighborhood and its vibrant mix of Italian eateries, cafes, and historic landmarks.
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D.
Pine Street
Pine Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Philadelphia known for its historic rowhouses and role as a key residential and cultural corridor in Center City.
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E.
Pine Street
Pine Street is a major east–west thoroughfare running through San Francisco’s Financial District, lined with office towers, financial institutions, and historic buildings.
- 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: Kearny Street Target entity description: Kearny Street is a major historic thoroughfare in San Francisco that runs through downtown and Chinatown, lined with shops, offices, and cultural landmarks.
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A.
Monroe Street
Monroe Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Chicago, Illinois, running through the city’s central business and cultural districts.
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B.
Vallejo Street
Vallejo Street is a notable San Francisco street that runs through several neighborhoods, including the steep and scenic Russian Hill area.
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C.
Columbus Avenue
Columbus Avenue is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for running through the North Beach neighborhood and its vibrant mix of Italian eateries, cafes, and historic landmarks.
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D.
Pine Street
Pine Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Philadelphia known for its historic rowhouses and role as a key residential and cultural corridor in Center City.
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E.
Pine Street
Pine Street is a major east–west thoroughfare running through San Francisco’s Financial District, lined with office towers, financial institutions, and historic buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasBorough | Manhattan-like downtown core of San Francisco ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
commercial
ⓘ
historic ⓘ urban ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | center of Chinese American community activities ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole |
office corridor
ⓘ
retail corridor ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cultural landmarks
ⓘ
offices ⓘ shops ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
development of San Francisco Chinatown
ⓘ
early commercial development of San Francisco ⓘ |
| hasIntersectionWith |
Broadway
ⓘ
Bush Street ⓘ California Street ⓘ Clay Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Geary Street ⓘ Jackson Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Market Street ⓘ Pine Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Sacramento Street ⓘ Washington Street ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
mixed-use
ⓘ
office ⓘ retail ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | roughly north–south ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork | San Francisco street network ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| namedAfter | Stephen W. Kearny ⓘ |
| near |
Chinatown Gate
ⓘ
surface form:
Dragon Gate (Chinatown Gate)
Portsmouth Square ⓘ |
| partOf |
Downtown San Francisco
ⓘ
San Francisco Chinatown ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Downtown San Francisco
ⓘ
San Francisco Chinatown ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| transportationType | urban road ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pedestrian traffic
ⓘ
public transit routes ⓘ 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: Kearny Street Description of subject: Kearny Street is a major historic thoroughfare in San Francisco that runs through downtown and Chinatown, lined with shops, offices, and cultural landmarks.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kearny Street and Columbus Avenue