Smithsonian station (Washington Metro)
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Smithsonian station is a Washington Metro rapid transit station on the National Mall in downtown Washington, D.C., serving major museums and landmarks including the Smithsonian Institution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Smithsonian station (Washington Metro) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1474743 — 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: Smithsonian station (Washington Metro) Context triple: [National Museum of American History, publicTransit, Smithsonian station (Washington Metro)]
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A.
Crystal City station (Washington Metro)
Crystal City station (Washington Metro) is an underground rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia, serving the Blue and Yellow Lines and providing access to the Crystal City business district near Reagan National Airport.
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B.
Foggy Bottom–GWU station
Foggy Bottom–GWU station is a Washington, D.C. Metrorail station on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines serving the George Washington University campus and nearby landmarks including the Kennedy Center.
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C.
Dupont Circle station
Dupont Circle station is a Washington, D.C. Metro station on the Red Line serving the Dupont Circle neighborhood and nearby areas such as Kalorama.
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D.
Anacostia station
Anacostia station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Southeast Washington, D.C., serving the Anacostia neighborhood.
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E.
L'Enfant Plaza station
L'Enfant Plaza station is a major Washington Metro transfer hub in downtown Washington, D.C., serving multiple lines and providing access to nearby federal offices and the National Mall.
- 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: Smithsonian station (Washington Metro) Target entity description: Smithsonian station is a Washington Metro rapid transit station on the National Mall in downtown Washington, D.C., serving major museums and landmarks including the Smithsonian Institution.
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A.
Crystal City station (Washington Metro)
Crystal City station (Washington Metro) is an underground rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia, serving the Blue and Yellow Lines and providing access to the Crystal City business district near Reagan National Airport.
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B.
Foggy Bottom–GWU station
Foggy Bottom–GWU station is a Washington, D.C. Metrorail station on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines serving the George Washington University campus and nearby landmarks including the Kennedy Center.
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C.
Dupont Circle station
Dupont Circle station is a Washington, D.C. Metro station on the Red Line serving the Dupont Circle neighborhood and nearby areas such as Kalorama.
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D.
Anacostia station
Anacostia station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Southeast Washington, D.C., serving the Anacostia neighborhood.
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E.
L'Enfant Plaza station
L'Enfant Plaza station is a major Washington Metro transfer hub in downtown Washington, D.C., serving multiple lines and providing access to nearby federal offices and the National Mall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Smithsonian station (Washington Metro) Description of subject: Smithsonian station is a Washington Metro rapid transit station on the National Mall in downtown Washington, D.C., serving major museums and landmarks including the Smithsonian Institution.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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publicTransitAccess
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Smithsonian station (Washington Metro)
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