52nd Street
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52nd Street is a 1978 jazz-influenced pop/rock album by Billy Joel that won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and solidified his mainstream success.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 52nd Street canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2885085 — 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: 52nd Street Context triple: [Billy Joel, notableAlbum, 52nd Street]
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A.
125th Street
125th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare and commercial hub in Harlem, Manhattan, known as the neighborhood’s main street and cultural center.
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B.
Decatur Street
Decatur Street is a historic and lively thoroughfare in New Orleans known for its bars, restaurants, music venues, and views along the Mississippi River.
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C.
Eleventh Avenue
Eleventh Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare on Manhattan’s West Side, known for running through neighborhoods like Chelsea and the Hell’s Kitchen area and for its mix of commercial, residential, and cultural sites.
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D.
Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica Avenue is a major commercial and transportation artery in the borough of Queens, New York City, lined with shops, businesses, and key transit connections.
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E.
Lancaster Avenue
Lancaster Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Philadelphia that serves as a key commercial and transit corridor through the University City area and beyond.
- 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: 52nd Street Target entity description: 52nd Street is a 1978 jazz-influenced pop/rock album by Billy Joel that won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and solidified his mainstream success.
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A.
125th Street
125th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare and commercial hub in Harlem, Manhattan, known as the neighborhood’s main street and cultural center.
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B.
Decatur Street
Decatur Street is a historic and lively thoroughfare in New Orleans known for its bars, restaurants, music venues, and views along the Mississippi River.
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C.
Eleventh Avenue
Eleventh Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare on Manhattan’s West Side, known for running through neighborhoods like Chelsea and the Hell’s Kitchen area and for its mix of commercial, residential, and cultural sites.
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D.
Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica Avenue is a major commercial and transportation artery in the borough of Queens, New York City, lined with shops, businesses, and key transit connections.
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E.
Lancaster Avenue
Lancaster Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Philadelphia that serves as a key commercial and transit corridor through the University City area and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Billy Joel album
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Grammy Award-winning album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Album of the Year
ⓘ
Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ⓘ
surface form:
Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
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| certification |
BPI silver
ⓘ
Music Canada platinum ⓘ RIAA multi-platinum ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
Billboard 200
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surface form:
Billboard 200 number-one album
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| followedBy | Glass Houses ⓘ |
| follows | The Stranger ⓘ |
| genre |
adult contemporary
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jazz-influenced rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasInfluence | mainstream success of Billy Joel ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyleCharacteristic |
blend of pop and jazz elements
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piano-driven melodies ⓘ use of jazz-inspired horn arrangements ⓘ |
| hasPart |
52nd Street (song)
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Big Shot ⓘ Half a Mile Away ⓘ Honesty ⓘ My Life ⓘ Rosalinda’s Eyes ⓘ Stiletto ⓘ Until the Night ⓘ Zanzibar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 40:29 ⓘ |
| mainSingle | My Life ⓘ |
| namedAfter | 52nd Street, Manhattan ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | urban life ⓘ |
| performer | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| producer | Phil Ramone ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1978 ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
A&R Recording
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surface form:
A&R Recording, New York City
Columbia 30th Street Studio ⓘ
surface form:
CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City
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| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1978-10-11 ⓘ |
| significance | solidified Billy Joel’s mainstream popularity ⓘ |
| single |
Big Shot
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Honesty ⓘ My Life ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: 52nd Street Description of subject: 52nd Street is a 1978 jazz-influenced pop/rock album by Billy Joel that won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and solidified his mainstream success.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.