Minnesota Avenue NE
E170272
Minnesota Avenue NE is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several neighborhoods in the city's Northeast quadrant and serving as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota Avenue NE canonical | 6 |
| Minnesota Ave NE | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T959726 — 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: Minnesota Avenue NE Context triple: [East Capitol Street NE, hasMajorIntersectionWith, Minnesota Avenue NE]
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A.
Wisconsin Avenue NW
Wisconsin Avenue NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the historic Georgetown neighborhood and serving as a key commercial and transportation corridor.
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B.
B Street NW
B Street NW was the former name of a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., later renamed Constitution Avenue NW.
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C.
Connecticut Avenue NW
Connecticut Avenue NW is a major diagonal thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., known for connecting downtown to upper Northwest neighborhoods and passing through prominent areas like Dupont Circle.
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D.
18th Street NW
18th Street NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several prominent neighborhoods and near key federal landmarks.
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E.
Columbia Road NW
Columbia Road NW is a major thoroughfare in Washington, D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, known for its dense mix of apartments, shops, restaurants, and nightlife.
- 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: Minnesota Avenue NE Target entity description: Minnesota Avenue NE is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several neighborhoods in the city's Northeast quadrant and serving as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
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A.
Wisconsin Avenue NW
Wisconsin Avenue NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through the historic Georgetown neighborhood and serving as a key commercial and transportation corridor.
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B.
B Street NW
B Street NW was the former name of a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., later renamed Constitution Avenue NW.
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C.
Connecticut Avenue NW
Connecticut Avenue NW is a major diagonal thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., known for connecting downtown to upper Northwest neighborhoods and passing through prominent areas like Dupont Circle.
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D.
18th Street NW
18th Street NW is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several prominent neighborhoods and near key federal landmarks.
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E.
Columbia Road NW
Columbia Road NW is a major thoroughfare in Washington, D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, known for its dense mix of apartments, shops, restaurants, and nightlife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAbbreviation |
Minnesota Avenue NE
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Minnesota Ave NE
|
| hasBusRoutes | WMATA bus routes ⓘ |
| hasDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| hasFunction | primary surface street ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple traffic lanes ⓘ |
| hasNearbyMetroStation | Minnesota Avenue station ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransitAccess | true ⓘ |
| hasRoadType | urban arterial road ⓘ |
| isCommercialCorridor | true ⓘ |
| isCommuterCorridor | true ⓘ |
| isMaintainedBy | District Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| isMajor | true ⓘ |
| isUrban | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedInQuadrant | Northeast ⓘ |
| metroSystem | Washington Metro ⓘ |
| partOf |
Washington, D.C. arterial road network
ⓘ
surface form:
District of Columbia street network
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| runsThrough |
Northeast Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Northeast Washington, D.C. neighborhoods
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| serves |
commercial areas in Northeast Washington, D.C.
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residential areas in Northeast Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuting
ⓘ
local commerce ⓘ |
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: Minnesota Avenue NE Description of subject: Minnesota Avenue NE is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several neighborhoods in the city's Northeast quadrant and serving as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Deanwood
this entity surface form:
Minnesota Ave NE