Maryland Avenue SW
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Maryland Avenue SW is a major diagonal avenue in Washington, D.C., that extends from the area near the United States Capitol toward the city's southwest quadrant as part of Pierre L’Enfant’s original city plan.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maryland Avenue SW canonical | 3 |
| Maryland Avenue | 1 |
| Maryland Avenue NE | 1 |
| Maryland Avenue SW (nearby alignment) | 1 |
| Maryland Avenue, S.W. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1480294 — 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: Maryland Avenue SW Context triple: [United States Capitol grounds, hasPart, Maryland Avenue SW]
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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.
Independence Avenue SW
Independence Avenue SW is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running near the National Mall and lined with prominent federal buildings and museums.
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C.
Missouri Avenue NW
Missouri Avenue NW is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several Northwest neighborhoods and connecting multiple key arterial streets.
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D.
Vermont Avenue NW
Vermont Avenue NW is a major diagonal street in Washington, D.C., running northwest from downtown through neighborhoods such as Logan Circle.
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E.
Calvert Street NW
Calvert Street NW is a major east–west street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running through neighborhoods such as Woodley Park and Adams Morgan and crossing Rock Creek Park via the Duke Ellington Bridge.
- 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: Maryland Avenue SW Target entity description: Maryland Avenue SW is a major diagonal avenue in Washington, D.C., that extends from the area near the United States Capitol toward the city's southwest quadrant as part of Pierre L’Enfant’s original city plan.
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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.
Independence Avenue SW
Independence Avenue SW is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running near the National Mall and lined with prominent federal buildings and museums.
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C.
Missouri Avenue NW
Missouri Avenue NW is a major east–west thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several Northwest neighborhoods and connecting multiple key arterial streets.
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D.
Vermont Avenue NW
Vermont Avenue NW is a major diagonal street in Washington, D.C., running northwest from downtown through neighborhoods such as Logan Circle.
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E.
Calvert Street NW
Calvert Street NW is a major east–west street in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, running through neighborhoods such as Woodley Park and Adams Morgan and crossing Rock Creek Park via the Duke Ellington Bridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
avenue
ⓘ
street in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crossesQuadrantBoundary | near the National Mall ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | Washington, D.C. street grid ⓘ |
| hasDirection | diagonal ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | District Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| hasNumbering | south of the National Mall in the SW quadrant ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | northeast–southwest ⓘ |
| hasUrbanFunction |
connector between Capitol area and Southwest waterfront vicinity
ⓘ
major radial approach to the Capitol area ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom |
Maryland Avenue SW
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Maryland Avenue NE
Maryland Avenue NW ⓘ |
| isOneOf | state‑named avenues in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedInQuadrant |
Southwest Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Southwest (SW) quadrant of Washington, D.C.
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| namedAfter |
Maryland
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Maryland
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| near |
L’Enfant Plaza
ⓘ
surface form:
L’Enfant Plaza area
National Mall ⓘ Smithsonian Institution buildings ⓘ
surface form:
Smithsonian museums on the National Mall
Southwest Federal Center ⓘ United States Capitol ⓘ |
| partOf |
Washington, D.C. arterial road network
ⓘ
surface form:
District of Columbia transportation network
L’Enfant Plan ⓘ original city plan of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| runsFrom | vicinity of the United States Capitol ⓘ |
| runsToward |
Southwest Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
surface form:
Southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C.
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| streetType | urban arterial road ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pedestrian access
ⓘ
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: Maryland Avenue SW Description of subject: Maryland Avenue SW is a major diagonal avenue in Washington, D.C., that extends from the area near the United States Capitol toward the city's southwest quadrant as part of Pierre L’Enfant’s original city plan.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maryland Avenue
this entity surface form:
Maryland Avenue, S.W.
this entity surface form:
Maryland Avenue SW (nearby alignment)
this entity surface form:
Maryland Avenue NE