West 31st Street
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West 31st Street is a major east–west street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for running past Penn Station and the surrounding commercial and transit hub.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West 31st Street canonical | 2 |
| 31st Street | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T232200 — 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 31st Street Context triple: [Penn Station (New York City), hasEntranceOn, West 31st Street]
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A.
West 32nd Street
West 32nd Street is a major Manhattan thoroughfare best known as the heart of Koreatown, lined with Korean restaurants, shops, and cultural businesses.
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B.
West 33rd Street
West 33rd Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for running through the bustling commercial district that includes landmarks like the Empire State Building and Penn Station.
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C.
West 34th Street
West 34th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its dense commercial activity and landmark buildings, including the Empire State Building.
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D.
West 42nd Street
West 42nd Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan known for its theaters, landmarks, and role as a central artery of New York City's entertainment district.
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E.
West 47th Street
West 47th Street is a major east–west street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for areas like the Diamond District and its proximity to Times Square.
- 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 31st Street Target entity description: West 31st Street is a major east–west street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for running past Penn Station and the surrounding commercial and transit hub.
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A.
West 32nd Street
West 32nd Street is a major Manhattan thoroughfare best known as the heart of Koreatown, lined with Korean restaurants, shops, and cultural businesses.
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B.
West 33rd Street
West 33rd Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for running through the bustling commercial district that includes landmarks like the Empire State Building and Penn Station.
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C.
West 34th Street
West 34th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its dense commercial activity and landmark buildings, including the Empire State Building.
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D.
West 42nd Street
West 42nd Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Midtown Manhattan known for its theaters, landmarks, and role as a central artery of New York City's entertainment district.
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E.
West 47th Street
West 47th Street is a major east–west street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for areas like the Diamond District and its proximity to Times Square.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
east–west street
ⓘ
street ⓘ thoroughfare ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Pennsylvania Station ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Midtown
ⓘ
surface form:
Midtown business district
Penn Station area redevelopment ⓘ |
| crosses |
Eighth Avenue
ⓘ
Seventh Avenue ⓘ Sixth Avenue ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial corridor
ⓘ
transit access street ⓘ |
| hasNeighborhoodCharacter |
commercial
ⓘ
office ⓘ retail ⓘ |
| hasNumberingSystem | Manhattan numbered streets system ⓘ |
| inBorough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| inCounty | New York County ⓘ |
| inTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| knownFor | running past Pennsylvania Station ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
Midtown Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| near |
James A. Farley Building
ⓘ
Madison Square Garden ⓘ Moynihan Train Hall ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
West 30th Street
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West 32nd Street ⓘ |
| partOf |
Manhattan street grid
ⓘ
Midtown Manhattan street network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Herald Square area
ⓘ
Koreatown ⓘ
surface form:
Koreatown, Manhattan
Penn Station (New York City) ⓘ
surface form:
Penn Station commercial district
|
| runsDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| servesAs |
access route to Madison Square Garden
ⓘ
access route to Penn Station ⓘ |
| transportHubFor |
commuter rail users
ⓘ
intercity rail passengers ⓘ subway riders ⓘ |
| urbanContext | dense urban environment ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pedestrian traffic
ⓘ
vehicular traffic ⓘ |
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 31st Street Description of subject: West 31st Street is a major east–west street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for running past Penn Station and the surrounding commercial and transit hub.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
31st Street