Broad Street
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Broad Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for running through Center City and serving as a central artery of the city’s street grid.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broad Street canonical | 36 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6451665 — 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: Broad Street Context triple: [Center City Concourse, locatedUnder, Broad Street]
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A.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a major thoroughfare in Reading, Berkshire, known for its central shopping area and pedestrianized retail district.
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B.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a former elevated terminal station in Lower Manhattan that once served as the southern terminus for New York City's BMT Nassau Street Line J train.
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C.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a major thoroughfare in Seattle, Washington, known for connecting the downtown area to the waterfront and key attractions like the Space Needle.
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D.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a historically significant thoroughfare in Selma, Alabama, known for its role in the civil rights movement and its collection of notable historic buildings.
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E.
Broad Street Extension
Broad Street Extension is a segment of the Newark Light Rail system that connects Newark Penn Station with Newark Broad Street Station, enhancing transit access through downtown Newark, New Jersey.
- 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: Broad Street Target entity description: Broad Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for running through Center City and serving as a central artery of the city’s street grid.
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A.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a former elevated terminal station in Lower Manhattan that once served as the southern terminus for New York City's BMT Nassau Street Line J train.
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B.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a historically significant thoroughfare in Selma, Alabama, known for its role in the civil rights movement and its collection of notable historic buildings.
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C.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a major thoroughfare in Seattle, Washington, known for connecting the downtown area to the waterfront and key attractions like the Space Needle.
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D.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a major thoroughfare in Reading, Berkshire, known for its central shopping area and pedestrianized retail district.
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E.
Broad Street Extension
Broad Street Extension is a segment of the Newark Light Rail system that connects Newark Penn Station with Newark Broad Street Station, enhancing transit access through downtown Newark, New Jersey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
major thoroughfare
ⓘ
street ⓘ |
| category |
Streets in Philadelphia
ⓘ
Transportation in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| continuesAs |
Old York Road (north of city line)
ⓘ
linked to:
Old York Road
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| formsPartOf | Philadelphia street grid ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateRegion | 39.9°N 75.2°W (approximate) ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
City Hall (Philadelphia) circle
ⓘ
Market Street (Philadelphia) ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Academy of Music (Philadelphia)
ⓘ
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts ⓘ Philadelphia City Hall ⓘ Temple University Main Campus vicinity ⓘ The Met Philadelphia ⓘ |
| isCentralArteryOf | Philadelphia street network ⓘ |
| isRouteFor | SEPTA Broad Street Line ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Avenue of the Arts (Center City segment)
ⓘ
linked to:
Avenue of the Arts
Broad Street ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Center City, Philadelphia
ⓘ
linked to:
Center City Philadelphia
Pennsylvania ⓘ Philadelphia ⓘ |
| maintenanceBy |
City of Philadelphia
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| passesThrough |
Center City, Philadelphia
ⓘ
linked to:
Center City Philadelphia
North Philadelphia ⓘ South Philadelphia ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Cheltenham Avenue ⓘ |
| terminusSouth |
Philadelphia Navy Yard
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
|
| usedFor |
New Year’s Day Mummers Parade
ⓘ
linked to:
Mummers Parade
sports championship parades ⓘ |
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: Broad Street Description of subject: Broad Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for running through Center City and serving as a central artery of the city’s street grid.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Girard Avenue (to the north, commonly)
subject linked to:
Philadelphia subway system
subject linked to:
Broad Street Line Walnut–Locust station
subject linked to:
Broad Street Line Walnut–Locust station
subject linked to:
Broad Street