Hester Street
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Hester Street is a 1975 independent film about Jewish immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side, best known for Carol Kane’s acclaimed, Oscar-nominated performance.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hester Street canonical | 11 |
| Gitl in Hester Street | 2 |
| Hester Street (1975 film) | 1 |
| Hester Street, Lower East Side, New York City | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10660110 — 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: Hester Street Context triple: [Carol Kane, notableWork, Hester Street]
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Hester Street
Hester Street is a painting by American realist artist George Luks that vividly depicts the bustling life of New York City's Lower East Side immigrant community in the early 20th century.
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B.
Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill is a prominent historic battlefield in County Wexford, Ireland, best known as the site of a major engagement during the 1798 Irish Rebellion.
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C.
Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill is a small historic waterfront neighborhood in northwestern Brooklyn, New York City, known for its cobblestone streets and 19th-century industrial and residential buildings.
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D.
The Saint of Bleecker Street
The Saint of Bleecker Street is a 1954 opera by Gian Carlo Menotti that portrays religious visions, faith, and skepticism within an Italian-American community in New York’s Greenwich Village.
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E.
Balmy Alley
Balmy Alley is a famous alley in San Francisco’s Mission District known for its dense concentration of vibrant political and cultural murals.
- 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: Hester Street Target entity description: Hester Street is a 1975 independent film about Jewish immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side, best known for Carol Kane’s acclaimed, Oscar-nominated performance.
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A.
Hester Street
Hester Street is a painting by American realist artist George Luks that vividly depicts the bustling life of New York City's Lower East Side immigrant community in the early 20th century.
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B.
Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill is a prominent historic battlefield in County Wexford, Ireland, best known as the site of a major engagement during the 1798 Irish Rebellion.
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C.
Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill is a small historic waterfront neighborhood in northwestern Brooklyn, New York City, known for its cobblestone streets and 19th-century industrial and residential buildings.
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D.
The Saint of Bleecker Street
The Saint of Bleecker Street is a 1954 opera by Gian Carlo Menotti that portrays religious visions, faith, and skepticism within an Italian-American community in New York’s Greenwich Village.
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E.
Balmy Alley
Balmy Alley is a famous alley in San Francisco’s Mission District known for its dense concentration of vibrant political and cultural murals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Hester Street Description of subject: Hester Street is a 1975 independent film about Jewish immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side, best known for Carol Kane’s acclaimed, Oscar-nominated performance.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Micklin Silver
linked to: Hester Street