Powell Street
E29713
Powell Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco best known as a central route for the city’s historic cable cars and a busy hub of shopping and tourism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Powell Street canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T70794 — 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: Powell Street Context triple: [San Francisco cable car system, notableStreetServed, Powell Street]
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A.
Spruce Street
Spruce Street is a major thoroughfare running through University City in Philadelphia, known for serving the nearby universities and residential neighborhoods.
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B.
California Street
California Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for its steep hills, iconic views, and historic cable car line running through key downtown and Nob Hill areas.
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C.
Park Street
Park Street is a major downtown Boston subway station and transfer hub on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) system.
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D.
Vine Street
Vine Street is a famous thoroughfare in Hollywood, Los Angeles, best known for its intersection with Hollywood Boulevard and its association with the entertainment industry and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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E.
Market Street
Market Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Philadelphia known for its commercial activity, transit connections, and role as a central artery of the city.
- 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: Powell Street Target entity description: Powell Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco best known as a central route for the city’s historic cable cars and a busy hub of shopping and tourism.
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A.
Spruce Street
Spruce Street is a major thoroughfare running through University City in Philadelphia, known for serving the nearby universities and residential neighborhoods.
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B.
California Street
California Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco known for its steep hills, iconic views, and historic cable car line running through key downtown and Nob Hill areas.
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C.
Park Street
Park Street is a major downtown Boston subway station and transfer hub on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) system.
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D.
Vine Street
Vine Street is a famous thoroughfare in Hollywood, Los Angeles, best known for its intersection with Hollywood Boulevard and its association with the entertainment industry and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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E.
Market Street
Market Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Philadelphia known for its commercial activity, transit connections, and role as a central artery of the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Union Square
ⓘ
surface form:
Union Square shopping district
|
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| connects |
Market Street
ⓘ
Nob Hill ⓘ
surface form:
Nob Hill area
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasCommercialActivity |
hotels
ⓘ
restaurants ⓘ retail stores ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cable car tracks
ⓘ
pedestrian-heavy sidewalks ⓘ steep hills ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Powell Street BART station vicinity
ⓘ
Powell Street terminal ⓘ
surface form:
Powell Street cable car turntable
|
| hasPublicTransit |
San Francisco Muni
ⓘ
surface form:
Muni Metro
Muni bus network ⓘ
surface form:
Muni buses
San Francisco cable car system ⓘ |
| intersects | Market Street ⓘ |
| knownFor |
San Francisco cable car system
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco cable cars
Union Square ⓘ
surface form:
Union Square retail district
shopping ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| namedAfter | likely a person with surname Powell (exact namesake uncertain) ⓘ |
| neighborhood |
Nob Hill
ⓘ
Tenderloin vicinity ⓘ Union Square ⓘ |
| orientation | roughly north–south ⓘ |
| partOf | San Francisco street grid ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Downtown San Francisco
ⓘ
Union Square ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| terminusOf |
Powell–Hyde cable car line
ⓘ
Powell-Mason cable car line ⓘ
surface form:
Powell–Mason cable car line
|
| touristAttraction | cable car boarding area at Market Street ⓘ |
| transportationType | road ⓘ |
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: Powell Street Description of subject: Powell Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco best known as a central route for the city’s historic cable cars and a busy hub of shopping and tourism.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Union Square (San Francisco)