MacArthur Boulevard NW
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MacArthur Boulevard NW is a major roadway in Washington, D.C. that runs along the Potomac River and serves residential neighborhoods such as the Palisades.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MacArthur Boulevard NW canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3867007 — 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: MacArthur Boulevard NW Context triple: [Palisades, transportConnection, MacArthur Boulevard NW]
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A.
Cathedral Avenue NW
Cathedral Avenue NW is a residential street in Northwest Washington, D.C., known for running through wooded neighborhoods near Rock Creek Park and providing access to institutions like the Washington National Cathedral.
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B.
Arkansas Avenue NW
Arkansas Avenue NW is a major diagonal thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running along the edge of the Petworth neighborhood and connecting it to other parts of the city.
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C.
Minnesota Avenue NE
Minnesota Avenue NE is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several neighborhoods in the city's Northeast quadrant and serving as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
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D.
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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E.
Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Cecil B. Moore Avenue is a major east–west thoroughfare in North Philadelphia named after civil rights leader Cecil B. Moore, running through areas including the Temple University campus.
- 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: MacArthur Boulevard NW Target entity description: MacArthur Boulevard NW is a major roadway in Washington, D.C. that runs along the Potomac River and serves residential neighborhoods such as the Palisades.
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A.
Cathedral Avenue NW
Cathedral Avenue NW is a residential street in Northwest Washington, D.C., known for running through wooded neighborhoods near Rock Creek Park and providing access to institutions like the Washington National Cathedral.
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B.
Arkansas Avenue NW
Arkansas Avenue NW is a major diagonal thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running along the edge of the Petworth neighborhood and connecting it to other parts of the city.
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C.
Minnesota Avenue NE
Minnesota Avenue NE is a major north–south thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., running through several neighborhoods in the city's Northeast quadrant and serving as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
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D.
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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E.
Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Cecil B. Moore Avenue is a major east–west thoroughfare in North Philadelphia named after civil rights leader Cecil B. Moore, running through areas including the Temple University campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road
ⓘ
street in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| adjacentLandUse |
single-family residential
ⓘ
small-scale retail and services at nodes ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Arizona Avenue NW
ⓘ
Canal Road NW ⓘ Chain Bridge Road NW vicinity ⓘ Loughboro Road NW ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| follows | Potomac River ⓘ |
| hasBikeInfrastructure | bike lanes or shared-lane markings on some segments ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
sidewalks along much of its length
ⓘ
signalized intersections at major cross streets ⓘ tree-lined segments ⓘ |
| hasLanes | two-lane road (one lane in each direction on most segments) ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeArea | ZIP Code 20016 (for much of its length) ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | typically 25–35 mph (varies by segment) ⓘ |
| hasZoningContext | primarily residential with some neighborhood commercial nodes ⓘ |
| isWithin |
Ward 2 of Washington, D.C. (on some segments)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ward 2 of Washington, D.C.
Ward 3 of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
linked to:
Northwest Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | District Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Douglas MacArthur
ⓘ
U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur ⓘ
linked to:
Douglas MacArthur
|
| orientation | generally northwest–southeast ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
C&O Canal
ⓘ
Clara Barton Parkway ⓘ |
| partOf |
District of Columbia street grid
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington, D.C. street grid
|
| passesNear |
C&O Canal National Historical Park (on the Maryland side of the river)
ⓘ
linked to:
C&O Canal
Potomac River ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Foxhall neighborhood
ⓘ
Palisades neighborhood ⓘ |
| publicTransit | served by multiple WMATA Metrobus routes ⓘ |
| roadType | urban arterial ⓘ |
| servesNeighborhood |
Canal View
ⓘ
Foxhall ⓘ
linked to:
Foxhall Village
Palisades ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
local residential access ⓘ |
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: MacArthur Boulevard NW Description of subject: MacArthur Boulevard NW is a major roadway in Washington, D.C. that runs along the Potomac River and serves residential neighborhoods such as the Palisades.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.