West 242nd Street
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West 242nd Street is a street in the Riverdale area of the Bronx, New York City, serving as a local thoroughfare near Van Cortlandt Park and the northern terminus of the 1 subway line.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 242nd Street (Bronx) | 1 |
| West 242nd Street canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3394721 — 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: West 242nd Street Context triple: [Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street, hasExitsTo, West 242nd Street]
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A.
West 215th Street
West 215th Street is a street in the Inwood neighborhood at the northern tip of Manhattan in New York City.
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B.
West 204th Street
West 204th Street is a street in the Inwood neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City, known for running near historic sites such as the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum.
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C.
West 125th Street
West 125th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Harlem, Manhattan, known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and serving as a key commercial and cultural corridor.
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D.
East 120th Street
East 120th Street is a street in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood, known in part for running along the northern edge of Marcus Garvey Park.
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E.
West 120th Street
West 120th Street is a street in Manhattan, New York City, that runs along the northern edge of Columbia University's Morningside Heights 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: West 242nd Street Target entity description: West 242nd Street is a street in the Riverdale area of the Bronx, New York City, serving as a local thoroughfare near Van Cortlandt Park and the northern terminus of the 1 subway line.
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A.
West 215th Street
West 215th Street is a street in the Inwood neighborhood at the northern tip of Manhattan in New York City.
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B.
West 204th Street
West 204th Street is a street in the Inwood neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City, known for running near historic sites such as the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum.
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C.
West 125th Street
West 125th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Harlem, Manhattan, known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and serving as a key commercial and cultural corridor.
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D.
East 120th Street
East 120th Street is a street in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood, known in part for running along the northern edge of Marcus Garvey Park.
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E.
West 120th Street
West 120th Street is a street in Manhattan, New York City, that runs along the northern edge of Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
ⓘ
linked to:
Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
|
| hasBorough |
Bronx
ⓘ
linked to:
The Bronx
|
| hasCity | New York City ⓘ |
| hasCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasDirection | west–east orientation (local) ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransitConnection |
New York City Subway 1 train
ⓘ
linked to:
1 train (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
|
| hasRole | access road to Van Cortlandt Park ⓘ |
| isNorthernTerminusFor |
New York City Subway 1 service
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City Subway 1 line
|
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
New York State ⓘ Riverdale, Bronx ⓘ The Bronx ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| near |
242nd Street – Van Cortlandt Park station
ⓘ
linked to:
Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street station
Broadway (Bronx) ⓘ Manhattan College ⓘ Van Cortlandt Park ⓘ
linked to:
Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx
|
| partOf | Riverdale neighborhood ⓘ |
| servesAs | local thoroughfare ⓘ |
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: West 242nd Street Description of subject: West 242nd Street is a street in the Riverdale area of the Bronx, New York City, serving as a local thoroughfare near Van Cortlandt Park and the northern terminus of the 1 subway line.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: West 242nd Street