Painted Ladies
E2796
Painted Ladies are a famous row of colorful Victorian and Edwardian houses in San Francisco, often photographed with the city skyline in the background.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Painted Ladies canonical | 7 |
| Painted Ladies at Alamo Square | 1 |
| Painted Ladies: San Francisco’s Resplendent Victorians | 1 |
| Postcard Row | 1 |
| The Painted Ladies of San Francisco | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11901 — 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: Painted Ladies Context triple: [San Francisco, hasLandmark, Painted Ladies]
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A.
The Town of Homes
The Town of Homes is a residentially focused nickname for Belmont, Massachusetts, reflecting its suburban character and emphasis on neighborhood living.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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C.
Chocolate City
Chocolate City is a popular nickname for Washington, D.C., highlighting its historically large and influential African American population and culture.
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D.
Cottonopolis
Cottonopolis is a historical nickname for Manchester, England, reflecting its prominence as a major center of the cotton and textile industry during the Industrial Revolution.
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E.
Stumptown
Stumptown is a historic nickname for Portland, Oregon, referencing the city’s rapid 19th-century growth that left tree stumps scattered throughout the area.
- 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: Painted Ladies Target entity description: Painted Ladies are a famous row of colorful Victorian and Edwardian houses in San Francisco, often photographed with the city skyline in the background.
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A.
The Town of Homes
The Town of Homes is a residentially focused nickname for Belmont, Massachusetts, reflecting its suburban character and emphasis on neighborhood living.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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C.
Chocolate City
Chocolate City is a popular nickname for Washington, D.C., highlighting its historically large and influential African American population and culture.
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D.
Cottonopolis
Cottonopolis is a historical nickname for Manchester, England, reflecting its prominence as a major center of the cotton and textile industry during the Industrial Revolution.
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E.
Stumptown
Stumptown is a historic nickname for Portland, Oregon, referencing the city’s rapid 19th-century growth that left tree stumps scattered throughout the area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
landmark
ⓘ
row of houses ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| builtBetween |
1892
ⓘ
1896 ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| faces |
Alamo Square
ⓘ
surface form:
Alamo Square Park
|
| facesDirection | east ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
TV show Fuller House
ⓘ
numerous postcards of San Francisco ⓘ opening credits of the TV show Full House ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
Edwardian architecture
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Victorian architecture ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType | residential houses ⓘ |
| hasColorScheme | multicolored facades ⓘ |
| hasMaterial | wood ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
bay windows
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brightly painted facades ⓘ decorative woodwork ⓘ ornate trim ⓘ steeply pitched roofs ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Financial District (San Francisco)
ⓘ
surface form:
Downtown San Francisco
San Francisco City Hall dome ⓘ Transamerica Pyramid ⓘ |
| isAccessibleFrom | Steiner Street ⓘ |
| isAlsoKnownAs |
Painted Ladies
ⓘ
surface form:
Postcard Row
Seven Sisters ⓘ |
| isExampleOf | Victorian row houses in San Francisco ⓘ |
| isMaintainedAs | private residences ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Alamo Square
ⓘ
surface form:
Alamo Square Historic District
|
| isSubjectOf |
tourist postcards
ⓘ
travel guides about San Francisco ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInNeighborhood | Alamo Square ⓘ |
| near | Fulton Street ⓘ |
| numberOfHouses | 7 ⓘ |
| overlooks | San Francisco skyline ⓘ |
| popularSince | 1960s ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 710–720 Steiner Street ⓘ |
| survivedEvent |
1906 San Francisco earthquake
ⓘ
1906 San Francisco fire ⓘ |
| termCoinedBy |
Elizabeth Pomada
ⓘ
Michael Larsen ⓘ |
| termCoinedIn | 1978 ⓘ |
| termCoinedInWork | book Painted Ladies: San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians ⓘ |
| touristActivity |
photography
ⓘ
sightseeing ⓘ |
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: Painted Ladies Description of subject: Painted Ladies are a famous row of colorful Victorian and Edwardian houses in San Francisco, often photographed with the city skyline in the background.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Painted Ladies (San Francisco)
this entity surface form:
Postcard Row
this entity surface form:
The Painted Ladies of San Francisco
this entity surface form:
Painted Ladies: San Francisco’s Resplendent Victorians
subject surface form:
Fulton Street (San Francisco)
subject surface form:
San Francisco
this entity surface form:
Painted Ladies at Alamo Square