West 181st Street
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West 181st Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, known for its busy commercial activity and access to multiple subway lines.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West 181st Street canonical | 2 |
| St. Nicholas Avenue and West 181st Street | 1 |
| W 181st Street | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9522723 — 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 181st Street Context triple: [181st Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line), hasStreetEntrancesNear, West 181st Street]
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A.
West 168th Street
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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B.
West 148th Street
West 148th Street is a street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, known for its residential blocks and proximity to local subway service.
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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 181st Street Target entity description: West 181st Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, known for its busy commercial activity and access to multiple subway lines.
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A.
West 168th Street
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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B.
West 148th Street
West 148th Street is a street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, known for its residential blocks and proximity to local subway service.
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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
ⓘ
thoroughfare ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
W 181st Street
ⓘ
linked to:
West 181st Street
|
| hasBorough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| hasCity | New York City ⓘ |
| hasCommercialUse |
restaurants
ⓘ
retail ⓘ services ⓘ |
| hasCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasEconomicRole | neighborhood business hub ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial corridor
ⓘ
local traffic artery ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | mixed-use ⓘ |
| hasNeighborhood | Washington Heights ⓘ |
| hasPedestrianActivityLevel | high ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Upper Manhattan ⓘ |
| hasTransportationConnection | New York City Subway ⓘ |
| knownFor |
access to multiple subway lines
ⓘ
busy commercial activity ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Upper Manhattan ⓘ Washington Heights ⓘ |
| partOf | street grid of Manhattan ⓘ |
| servesPopulation |
Washington Heights residents
ⓘ
local shoppers ⓘ |
| urbanContext | dense urban neighborhood ⓘ |
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 181st Street Description of subject: West 181st Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, known for its busy commercial activity and access to multiple subway lines.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: West 181st Street
linked to: West 181st Street