Flushing–Main Street
E213646
Flushing–Main Street is a major New York City Subway station in downtown Flushing, Queens, serving as a busy transit hub and commercial center for the surrounding neighborhood.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flushing–Main Street canonical | 11 |
| Main Street (Flushing) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1218511 — 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: Flushing–Main Street Context triple: [Flushing Line, terminusEast, Flushing–Main Street]
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A.
Queens Boulevard
Queens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Queens, known for its wide lanes, heavy traffic, and history as a dangerous roadway for pedestrians.
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B.
Nostrand Avenue
Nostrand Avenue is a commuter rail station in Brooklyn, New York, serving passengers on the Long Island Rail Road’s Atlantic Branch.
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C.
Flatbush Avenue
Flatbush Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Brooklyn, New York City, running from Downtown Brooklyn through several neighborhoods to the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.
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D.
Sutphin Boulevard
Sutphin Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York City, known for its busy commercial activity and transit connections.
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E.
Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue
Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue is a major New York City Subway terminal station in Brooklyn that serves multiple lines and provides access to the Coney Island amusement area and beach.
- 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: Flushing–Main Street Target entity description: Flushing–Main Street is a major New York City Subway station in downtown Flushing, Queens, serving as a busy transit hub and commercial center for the surrounding neighborhood.
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A.
Queens Boulevard
Queens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Queens, known for its wide lanes, heavy traffic, and history as a dangerous roadway for pedestrians.
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B.
Nostrand Avenue
Nostrand Avenue is a commuter rail station in Brooklyn, New York, serving passengers on the Long Island Rail Road’s Atlantic Branch.
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C.
Flatbush Avenue
Flatbush Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Brooklyn, New York City, running from Downtown Brooklyn through several neighborhoods to the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.
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D.
Sutphin Boulevard
Sutphin Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York City, known for its busy commercial activity and transit connections.
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E.
Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue
Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue is a major New York City Subway terminal station in Brooklyn that serves multiple lines and provides access to the Coney Island amusement area and beach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Flushing–Main Street Description of subject: Flushing–Main Street is a major New York City Subway station in downtown Flushing, Queens, serving as a busy transit hub and commercial center for the surrounding neighborhood.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Main Street (Flushing)
subject surface form:
IRT Flushing Line
subject surface form:
IRT Flushing Line