Storrow Drive
E136705
Storrow Drive is a major limited-access parkway running along the Charles River in Boston, known for carrying heavy commuter traffic and its low-clearance bridges that restrict large vehicles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Storrow Drive canonical | 18 |
| Storrow Drive across the Charles River | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T639871 — 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: Storrow Drive Context triple: [West End (Boston), borderedBy, Storrow Drive]
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A.
Chapin Parkway
Chapin Parkway is a historic, tree-lined boulevard in Buffalo, New York, that forms part of the city’s renowned Olmsted-designed park and parkway network.
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B.
Pine Valley Drive
Pine Valley Drive is a significant north–south arterial road in Woodbridge, a community within the city of Vaughan in Ontario, Canada.
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C.
South Hall Road
South Hall Road is a campus roadway or pedestrian route associated with the University of California, Berkeley, situated near the historic Sather Gate.
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D.
Clarendon Boulevard
Clarendon Boulevard is a major arterial street in Arlington, Virginia, running through urban neighborhoods like Courthouse and Clarendon and lined with shops, restaurants, and offices.
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E.
George Washington Memorial Parkway
The George Washington Memorial Parkway is a scenic roadway and protected parkland along the Potomac River in the Washington, D.C. area, designed to honor George Washington while providing access to historic sites and natural areas.
- 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: Storrow Drive Target entity description: Storrow Drive is a major limited-access parkway running along the Charles River in Boston, known for carrying heavy commuter traffic and its low-clearance bridges that restrict large vehicles.
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A.
Chapin Parkway
Chapin Parkway is a historic, tree-lined boulevard in Buffalo, New York, that forms part of the city’s renowned Olmsted-designed park and parkway network.
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B.
Pine Valley Drive
Pine Valley Drive is a significant north–south arterial road in Woodbridge, a community within the city of Vaughan in Ontario, Canada.
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C.
South Hall Road
South Hall Road is a campus roadway or pedestrian route associated with the University of California, Berkeley, situated near the historic Sather Gate.
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D.
Clarendon Boulevard
Clarendon Boulevard is a major arterial street in Arlington, Virginia, running through urban neighborhoods like Courthouse and Clarendon and lined with shops, restaurants, and offices.
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E.
George Washington Memorial Parkway
The George Washington Memorial Parkway is a scenic roadway and protected parkland along the Potomac River in the Washington, D.C. area, designed to honor George Washington while providing access to historic sites and natural areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
limited-access road
ⓘ
parkway ⓘ urban roadway ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Charles River Esplanade
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston Esplanade
Charles River Esplanade ⓘ |
| allows |
light trucks
ⓘ
passenger cars ⓘ |
| carries | commuter traffic ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Arlington Street
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bowker Overpass ⓘ Charlesgate ⓘ Embankment Road ⓘ Leverett Circle ⓘ |
| crosses | Leverett Circle area ⓘ |
| designedFor | automobile traffic ⓘ |
| follows | Charles River shoreline ⓘ |
| hasAccessControl | limited ⓘ |
| hasAtGradeIntersections | limited ⓘ |
| hasBridgeClearance | low ⓘ |
| hasDirection |
eastbound
ⓘ
westbound ⓘ |
| hasFeature | low-clearance bridges ⓘ |
| hasInterchange |
Interstate 93 vicinity
ⓘ
Massachusetts Route 28 ⓘ Massachusetts Route 3 ⓘ |
| hasLaneCount | mostly 2 to 3 lanes each direction ⓘ |
| hasMedian | yes ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | approximately 40 mph ⓘ |
| hasTrafficVolume | heavy commuter traffic ⓘ |
| hasWarningSignage | low-clearance warnings ⓘ |
| isInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| isNear |
Back Bay
ⓘ
surface form:
Back Bay neighborhood
Beacon Hill ⓘ
surface form:
Beacon Hill neighborhood
|
| knownFor |
frequent over-height vehicle strikes
ⓘ
“Storrowing” incidents ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| maintainedBy | Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
James J. Storrow
ⓘ
surface form:
James Jackson Storrow II
|
| openedIn | 1951 ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Memorial Drive ⓘ |
| partOf |
Greater Boston parkway system
ⓘ
surface form:
Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
|
| prohibits | commercial vehicles over height limit ⓘ |
| restrictsVehicleType |
buses
ⓘ
large trucks ⓘ tall vehicles ⓘ |
| roadType | divided highway ⓘ |
| runsAlong | Charles River ⓘ |
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: Storrow Drive Description of subject: Storrow Drive is a major limited-access parkway running along the Charles River in Boston, known for carrying heavy commuter traffic and its low-clearance bridges that restrict large vehicles.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
West End (Boston)
subject surface form:
Metropolitan District Commission (Massachusetts)
this entity surface form:
Storrow Drive across the Charles River