Washington Square Park
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Washington Square Park is a famous public park in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village known for its iconic arch, central fountain, and role as a historic gathering place for artists, students, and activists.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Washington Square Park canonical | 20 |
| Washington Square Arch | 1 |
| Washington Square Arch, New York City | 1 |
| Washington Square park | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T475516 — 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: Washington Square Park Context triple: [New York City park system, hasPart, Washington Square Park]
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A.
Washington Square
Washington Square is a historic public park in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, known as a central gathering spot surrounded by cafes, churches, and classic city views.
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B.
Washington Square
Washington Square is a historic public park in Philadelphia that serves as one of the original five city squares planned by William Penn and a memorial site honoring Revolutionary War soldiers and the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier.
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C.
Washington Square
Washington Square is an 1880 novel by Henry James that explores themes of family, inheritance, and emotional manipulation through the quiet tragedy of a shy heiress in 19th-century New York City.
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D.
Morningside Park
Morningside Park is a public park in Manhattan, New York City, known for its dramatic rocky terrain, winding paths, and design by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
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E.
Bryant Park
Bryant Park is a popular waterfront public park in Traverse City, Michigan, known for its sandy beach on Grand Traverse Bay, swimming area, and family-friendly recreational amenities.
- 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: Washington Square Park Target entity description: Washington Square Park is a famous public park in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village known for its iconic arch, central fountain, and role as a historic gathering place for artists, students, and activists.
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A.
Washington Square
Washington Square is a historic public park in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, known as a central gathering spot surrounded by cafes, churches, and classic city views.
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B.
Washington Square
Washington Square is a historic public park in Philadelphia that serves as one of the original five city squares planned by William Penn and a memorial site honoring Revolutionary War soldiers and the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier.
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C.
Washington Square
Washington Square is an 1880 novel by Henry James that explores themes of family, inheritance, and emotional manipulation through the quiet tragedy of a shy heiress in 19th-century New York City.
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D.
Morningside Park
Morningside Park is a public park in Manhattan, New York City, known for its dramatic rocky terrain, winding paths, and design by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
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E.
Bryant Park
Bryant Park is a popular waterfront public park in Traverse City, Michigan, known for its sandy beach on Grand Traverse Bay, swimming area, and family-friendly recreational amenities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public park
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urban park ⓘ |
| archDesignedBy | Stanford White ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
MacDougal Street
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University Place ⓘ Waverly Place ⓘ West 4th Street ⓘ |
| constructionOfArchCompleted | 1892 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasArea |
approximately 3.9 hectares
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approximately 9.75 acres ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLatitude | 40.7308 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLongitude | -73.9973 ⓘ |
| hasDesignStyle |
Beaux-Arts
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surface form:
Beaux-Arts (arch)
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| hasFeature |
chess tables
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dog run ⓘ performance space ⓘ playground ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Garibaldi statue
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Holley statue ⓘ Washington Square Arch ⓘ central fountain ⓘ |
| hasPathLayout | formal paths around central fountain ⓘ |
| hasSeating | benches ⓘ |
| hasVegetation | deciduous trees ⓘ |
| hasWiFi | yes ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
military parade ground
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potter’s field ⓘ |
| isFilmingLocation | yes ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Greenwich Village cultural life
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Washington Square Arch ⓘ central fountain ⓘ folk music scene in the 1950s and 1960s ⓘ gatherings of artists ⓘ political demonstrations ⓘ street performances ⓘ student gatherings ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Greenwich Village
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Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
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| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | George Washington ⓘ |
| near |
Washington Square campus
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surface form:
New York University campus
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| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| operatedBy | New York City Department of Parks and Recreation ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
City of New York
|
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: Washington Square Park Description of subject: Washington Square Park is a famous public park in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village known for its iconic arch, central fountain, and role as a historic gathering place for artists, students, and activists.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Washington Square Arch, New York City
this entity surface form:
Washington Square Arch
George Washington as President, Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice (Washington Square Arch) bas-reliefs
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locatedIn
→
Washington Square Park
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this entity surface form:
Washington Square park
subject surface form:
Fifth Avenue