Broad Street
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Broad Street is a historic thoroughfare in Salem, Massachusetts, known for bordering the Broad Street Cemetery and running through one of the city’s older residential areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Broad Street canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7343319 — 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: [Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts, street, Broad Street]
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A.
Broad Street
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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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 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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D.
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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E.
Broad Street
Broad Street is a major thoroughfare in Reading, Berkshire, known for its central shopping area and pedestrianized retail district.
- 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 historic thoroughfare in Salem, Massachusetts, known for bordering the Broad Street Cemetery and running through one of the city’s older residential areas.
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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
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
ⓘ
city ⓘ street ⓘ thoroughfare ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Broad Street Cemetery ⓘ |
| borders | Broad Street Cemetery ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hasHeritageStatus | part of a historic area of Salem ⓘ |
| hasName | Broad Street ⓘ |
| hasStreet | Broad Street (Salem, Massachusetts) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic character
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proximity to Broad Street Cemetery ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Essex County, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Broad Street (Salem, Massachusetts) ⓘ |
| passesThrough | historic residential area of Salem ⓘ |
| usedFor | local road 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: Broad Street Description of subject: Broad Street is a historic thoroughfare in Salem, Massachusetts, known for bordering the Broad Street Cemetery and running through one of the city’s older residential areas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Broad Street