De la Vega Bodega
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De la Vega Bodega is the small neighborhood corner store in Washington Heights featured in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical "In the Heights," owned and run by the character Usnavi de la Vega.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| De la Vega Bodega canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5067798 — 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: De la Vega Bodega Context triple: [Usnavi de la Vega, businessOwned, De la Vega Bodega]
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A.
Torres Maldonado Cellar
Torres Maldonado Cellar is a contemporary architectural project by Preston Scott Cohen, recognized for its innovative geometric design and integration of light within a winery setting.
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B.
Massandra Winery
Massandra Winery is a historic Crimean winery renowned for its extensive collection of fine and rare wines, housed in vast underground cellars near Yalta.
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C.
Dominus Winery
Dominus Winery is a renowned Napa Valley winery celebrated for its minimalist, landscape-integrated architecture and high-quality Bordeaux-style wines.
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D.
Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino
Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino is a historic hacienda near Santa Marta, Colombia, best known as the place where Simón Bolívar spent his final days and died in 1830.
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E.
Rancho Caymus
Rancho Caymus was a 19th-century Mexican land grant in Napa Valley, California, that became the basis for the modern town of Yountville and surrounding wine country.
- 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: De la Vega Bodega Target entity description: De la Vega Bodega is the small neighborhood corner store in Washington Heights featured in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical "In the Heights," owned and run by the character Usnavi de la Vega.
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A.
Torres Maldonado Cellar
Torres Maldonado Cellar is a contemporary architectural project by Preston Scott Cohen, recognized for its innovative geometric design and integration of light within a winery setting.
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B.
Massandra Winery
Massandra Winery is a historic Crimean winery renowned for its extensive collection of fine and rare wines, housed in vast underground cellars near Yalta.
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C.
Dominus Winery
Dominus Winery is a renowned Napa Valley winery celebrated for its minimalist, landscape-integrated architecture and high-quality Bordeaux-style wines.
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D.
Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino
Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino is a historic hacienda near Santa Marta, Colombia, best known as the place where Simón Bolívar spent his final days and died in 1830.
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E.
Rancho Caymus
Rancho Caymus was a 19th-century Mexican land grant in Napa Valley, California, that became the basis for the modern town of Yountville and surrounding wine country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional convenience store
ⓘ
fictional location ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
In the Heights
ⓘ
In the Heights (2021 film) ⓘ
linked to:
In the Heights
In the Heights (stage musical) ⓘ
linked to:
In the Heights
|
| associatedWithCharacter |
Abuela Claudia
ⓘ
Benny (In the Heights) ⓘ Nina Rosario ⓘ Usnavi de la Vega ⓘ Vanessa (In the Heights) ⓘ
linked to:
Vanessa in In the Heights
|
| countryInFiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Lin-Manuel Miranda ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Latino-American culture ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | does not exist as a real store ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
In the Heights universe
ⓘ
linked to:
In the Heights
|
| firstAppearance |
In the Heights (Off-Broadway, 2007)
ⓘ
linked to:
In the Heights
|
| inspiredBy | real New York City bodegas ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional |
Upper Manhattan
ⓘ
Washington Heights ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central setting in In the Heights ⓘ |
| neighborhoodContext | Latino community in Washington Heights ⓘ |
| notableScene |
opening number "In the Heights"
ⓘ
various scenes of Usnavi serving customers ⓘ |
| operator | Usnavi de la Vega ⓘ |
| owner | Usnavi de la Vega ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
bodega
ⓘ
corner store ⓘ |
| sells |
coffee
ⓘ
groceries ⓘ lottery tickets ⓘ snacks ⓘ |
| servesAs | community gathering place ⓘ |
| settingType | urban neighborhood store ⓘ |
| significance |
symbol of neighborhood identity
ⓘ
symbol of small business in immigrant communities ⓘ |
| themeRelation |
community
ⓘ
dreams and aspirations ⓘ gentrification ⓘ immigrant experience ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | early 2000s ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: De la Vega Bodega Description of subject: De la Vega Bodega is the small neighborhood corner store in Washington Heights featured in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical "In the Heights," owned and run by the character Usnavi de la Vega.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Usnavi de la Vega in In the Heights