West 168th Street
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West 168th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, known for serving the NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center area and nearby institutional and residential blocks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West 168th Street canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6492294 — 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 168th Street Context triple: [168th Street–Washington Heights, hasStreet, West 168th Street]
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A.
West 116th Street
West 116th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City, running through neighborhoods such as Harlem and Morningside Heights and serving as a key local commercial and residential corridor.
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B.
West 138th Street
West 138th Street is a historic street in Harlem, New York City, closely associated with the neighborhood’s African American cultural and religious life.
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C.
West 135th Street
West 135th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Harlem, Manhattan, historically significant as a cultural and commercial hub of the neighborhood.
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D.
West 145th Street
West 145th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, serving as an important local commercial and transit corridor.
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E.
West 155th Street
West 155th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Upper Manhattan, New York City, forming part of the boundary between Harlem and Washington Heights and connecting local streets to key bridges and parkways.
- 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 168th Street Target entity description: West 168th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, known for serving the NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center area and nearby institutional and residential blocks.
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A.
West 116th Street
West 116th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City, running through neighborhoods such as Harlem and Morningside Heights and serving as a key local commercial and residential corridor.
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B.
West 138th Street
West 138th Street is a historic street in Harlem, New York City, closely associated with the neighborhood’s African American cultural and religious life.
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C.
West 135th Street
West 135th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Harlem, Manhattan, historically significant as a cultural and commercial hub of the neighborhood.
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D.
West 145th Street
West 145th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, serving as an important local commercial and transit corridor.
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E.
West 155th Street
West 155th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in Upper Manhattan, New York City, forming part of the boundary between Harlem and Washington Heights and connecting local streets to key bridges and parkways.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| hasArea |
Washington Heights neighborhood
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington Heights
|
| hasBorough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| hasCity | New York City ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
hospital access route
ⓘ
local traffic corridor ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | east–west ⓘ |
| knownFor |
medical campus access
ⓘ
serving NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center area ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Upper Manhattan ⓘ Washington Heights ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Washington Heights ⓘ |
| partOf | Manhattan street grid ⓘ |
| roadType | urban street ⓘ |
| serves |
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
ⓘ
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital ⓘ
linked to:
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
institutional buildings ⓘ residential blocks ⓘ |
| transportationRole | local connector street ⓘ |
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 168th Street Description of subject: West 168th Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, known for serving the NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center area and nearby institutional and residential blocks.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.