Northwest (NW)
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Northwest (NW) is one of the four geographic quadrants of Washington, D.C., encompassing many of the city’s major neighborhoods, landmarks, and federal institutions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Northwest, Washington, D.C. | 3 |
| Northwest (NW) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7736853 — 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: Northwest (NW) Context triple: [Van Ness Street NW, partOfQuadrant, Northwest (NW)]
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Northwest
Northwest is a public university in Maryville, Missouri, known for its comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs and strong emphasis on applied learning.
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B.
North Western
North Western is a regional case law reporter in the United States that publishes appellate court decisions from several Midwestern states.
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C.
NW
NW is a 2012 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores the intersecting lives of residents in northwest London, examining themes of class, race, and identity.
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D.
NW
NW is the vehicle registration code for the German town of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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E.
NW
NW is an abbreviation used as a vehicle registration code associated with the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- 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: Northwest (NW) Target entity description: Northwest (NW) is one of the four geographic quadrants of Washington, D.C., encompassing many of the city’s major neighborhoods, landmarks, and federal institutions.
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A.
Northwest
Northwest is a public university in Maryville, Missouri, known for its comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs and strong emphasis on applied learning.
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B.
North Western
North Western is a regional case law reporter in the United States that publishes appellate court decisions from several Midwestern states.
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C.
NW
NW is a 2012 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores the intersecting lives of residents in northwest London, examining themes of class, race, and identity.
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D.
NW
NW is the vehicle registration code for the German town of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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E.
NW
NW is an abbreviation used as a vehicle registration code associated with the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative division
ⓘ
geographic quadrant ⓘ |
| borders |
Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northeast (NE) Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Southwest (SW) Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
16th Street NW
ⓘ
Adams Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ American University NERFINISHED ⓘ Cleveland Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Columbia Heights NERFINISHED ⓘ Connecticut Avenue NW NERFINISHED ⓘ Downtown Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Dupont Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ Embassy Row NERFINISHED ⓘ FBI Headquarters (J. Edgar Hoover Building) NERFINISHED ⓘ Farragut Square NERFINISHED ⓘ Federal Reserve Board headquarters NERFINISHED ⓘ Foggy Bottom NERFINISHED ⓘ Friendship Heights NERFINISHED ⓘ George Washington University NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgetown NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgetown University NERFINISHED ⓘ Glover Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard University NERFINISHED ⓘ International Monetary Fund headquarters ⓘ K Street corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalorama NERFINISHED ⓘ Kennedy Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Lafayette Square NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln Memorial NERFINISHED ⓘ Logan Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Avenue NW NERFINISHED ⓘ McPherson Square NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Pleasant NERFINISHED ⓘ National Cathedral NERFINISHED ⓘ National Gallery of Art (West Building) NERFINISHED ⓘ National Mall (western portion) NERFINISHED ⓘ National Zoo NERFINISHED ⓘ Palisades NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennsylvania Avenue NW NERFINISHED ⓘ Petworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Creek Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Smithsonian National Museum of American History NERFINISHED ⓘ Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History NERFINISHED ⓘ Tenleytown NERFINISHED ⓘ U Street Corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Department of State headquarters ⓘ U.S. Department of the Treasury headquarters NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Capitol (northwest side of Capitol grounds) NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Monument (northwest side of grounds) NERFINISHED ⓘ White House NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin Avenue NW NERFINISHED ⓘ Woodley Park NERFINISHED ⓘ World Bank headquarters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governedBy | Council of the District of Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 202 ⓘ |
| hasMajorLandUse |
commercial
ⓘ
federal government ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| oneOfFourQuadrantsOf | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | 200xx ⓘ |
| streetAddressSuffix | NW ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Northwest (NW) Description of subject: Northwest (NW) is one of the four geographic quadrants of Washington, D.C., encompassing many of the city’s major neighborhoods, landmarks, and federal institutions.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Northwest, Washington, D.C.
this entity surface form:
Northwest, Washington, D.C.
this entity surface form:
Northwest, Washington, D.C.