U.S. Route 50 in Maryland
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U.S. Route 50 in Maryland is a major east–west highway that connects the Washington, D.C. suburbs with Annapolis and the Eastern Shore, serving as a key commuter and beach-bound travel corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 50 in Maryland canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12790101 — 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: U.S. Route 50 in Maryland Context triple: [Suburban Maryland, servedBy, U.S. Route 50 in Maryland]
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A.
U.S. Route 50 in Landover Hills, Maryland
U.S. Route 50 in Landover Hills, Maryland is a major east–west highway segment in Prince George’s County that serves as a key commuter and regional connector between Washington, D.C. and points east.
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B.
U.S. Route 40 in Maryland
U.S. Route 40 in Maryland is a major east–west highway that traverses the state, connecting urban centers like Baltimore with rural and mountainous regions including the South Mountain area.
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C.
U.S. Route 50 in Virginia
U.S. Route 50 in Virginia is a major east–west highway that traverses Northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley, linking rural areas, suburbs, and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.
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D.
U.S. Route 50 in West Virginia
U.S. Route 50 in West Virginia is an east–west U.S. Highway crossing the state through the Appalachian region, connecting rural communities and cities such as Clarksburg and Parkersburg as part of a major transcontinental route.
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E.
U.S. Route 50 near Bowie, Maryland
U.S. Route 50 near Bowie, Maryland is a major east–west highway corridor in central Maryland that serves as a key commuter and regional route connecting the Washington, D.C. area with Annapolis and the Eastern Shore.
- 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: U.S. Route 50 in Maryland Target entity description: U.S. Route 50 in Maryland is a major east–west highway that connects the Washington, D.C. suburbs with Annapolis and the Eastern Shore, serving as a key commuter and beach-bound travel corridor.
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A.
U.S. Route 50 in Landover Hills, Maryland
U.S. Route 50 in Landover Hills, Maryland is a major east–west highway segment in Prince George’s County that serves as a key commuter and regional connector between Washington, D.C. and points east.
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B.
U.S. Route 40 in Maryland
U.S. Route 40 in Maryland is a major east–west highway that traverses the state, connecting urban centers like Baltimore with rural and mountainous regions including the South Mountain area.
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C.
U.S. Route 50 in Virginia
U.S. Route 50 in Virginia is a major east–west highway that traverses Northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley, linking rural areas, suburbs, and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.
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D.
U.S. Route 50 in West Virginia
U.S. Route 50 in West Virginia is an east–west U.S. Highway crossing the state through the Appalachian region, connecting rural communities and cities such as Clarksburg and Parkersburg as part of a major transcontinental route.
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E.
U.S. Route 50 near Bowie, Maryland
U.S. Route 50 near Bowie, Maryland is a major east–west highway corridor in central Maryland that serves as a key commuter and regional route connecting the Washington, D.C. area with Annapolis and the Eastern Shore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Numbered Highway segment
ⓘ
highway in Maryland ⓘ |
| bridgeTypeSection | freeway for much of its length in Maryland ⓘ |
| concurrentWith | U.S. Route 301 in Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Annapolis, Maryland
NERFINISHED
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Maryland Eastern Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington, D.C. suburbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses | Chesapeake Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminusNear | Ocean City, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Baltimore–Washington Parkway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway) NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 95 in Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Route 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Route 404 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 13 in Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Maryland State Highway Administration
NERFINISHED
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Maryland Transportation Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| number | 50 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ocean Gateway
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Route 50 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Chesapeake Bay Bridge toll plaza
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Naval Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Annapolis, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bowie, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Cambridge, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Ocean City, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Salisbury, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
key commuter corridor
ⓘ
major beach-bound travel corridor ⓘ major east–west highway ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
NERFINISHED
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Dorchester County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince George's County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Anne's County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Talbot County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Wicomico County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Worcester County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
Annapolis metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
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Washington, D.C. metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ resort area of Ocean City, Maryland ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
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tourist traffic to Atlantic beaches ⓘ |
| usesStructure | Chesapeake Bay Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminusNear | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: U.S. Route 50 in Maryland Description of subject: U.S. Route 50 in Maryland is a major east–west highway that connects the Washington, D.C. suburbs with Annapolis and the Eastern Shore, serving as a key commuter and beach-bound travel corridor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.