Astor Place subway station
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Astor Place subway station is a New York City Subway station in Manhattan’s East Village, known for its distinctive early 20th-century architecture and tilework.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Astor Place subway station canonical | 4 |
| Astor Place (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) | 2 |
| Astor Place station | 2 |
| Astor Place subway entrance kiosk | 1 |
| Astor Place subway station (original IRT) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4923912 — 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: Astor Place subway station Context triple: [Astor Place Tower, nearbyLandmark, Astor Place subway station]
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A.
Fifth Avenue–Bryant Park subway station
The Fifth Avenue–Bryant Park subway station is a New York City Subway complex in Midtown Manhattan serving the 7, B, D, F, and M lines near Bryant Park and the New York Public Library.
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Fifth Avenue–53rd Street subway station
Fifth Avenue–53rd Street subway station is a busy Midtown Manhattan New York City Subway station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line, serving the E and M trains near major landmarks and shopping districts.
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C.
West Street subway station
West Street subway station is a stop on Glasgow's circular Subway system serving the area around West Street near the south bank of the River Clyde.
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D.
42 St–Bryant Park subway station
The 42 St–Bryant Park subway station is a major New York City Subway complex in Midtown Manhattan serving multiple lines and providing access to Bryant Park and nearby Times Square.
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E.
Christopher Street station
Christopher Street station is a New York City PATH rapid transit stop in Manhattan’s West Village, providing service between New Jersey and Lower/Midtown Manhattan.
- 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: Astor Place subway station Target entity description: Astor Place subway station is a New York City Subway station in Manhattan’s East Village, known for its distinctive early 20th-century architecture and tilework.
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A.
Fifth Avenue–Bryant Park subway station
The Fifth Avenue–Bryant Park subway station is a New York City Subway complex in Midtown Manhattan serving the 7, B, D, F, and M lines near Bryant Park and the New York Public Library.
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B.
Fifth Avenue–53rd Street subway station
Fifth Avenue–53rd Street subway station is a busy Midtown Manhattan New York City Subway station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line, serving the E and M trains near major landmarks and shopping districts.
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C.
West Street subway station
West Street subway station is a stop on Glasgow's circular Subway system serving the area around West Street near the south bank of the River Clyde.
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D.
42 St–Bryant Park subway station
The 42 St–Bryant Park subway station is a major New York City Subway complex in Midtown Manhattan serving multiple lines and providing access to Bryant Park and nearby Times Square.
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E.
Christopher Street station
Christopher Street station is a New York City PATH rapid transit stop in Manhattan’s West Village, providing service between New Jersey and Lower/Midtown Manhattan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Astor Place subway station Description of subject: Astor Place subway station is a New York City Subway station in Manhattan’s East Village, known for its distinctive early 20th-century architecture and tilework.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Astor Place Tower (Sculpture for Living), New York
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Spring Street station
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Canal Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
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Astor Place (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
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