Illinois Route 157
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Illinois Route 157 is a state highway in southwestern Illinois that connects communities such as Edwardsville to the St. Louis metropolitan area and nearby interstates.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illinois Route 157 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12368993 — 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: Illinois Route 157 Context triple: [Edwardsville, Illinois, hasTransportationLink, Illinois Route 157]
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A.
Illinois Route 159
Illinois Route 159 is a north–south state highway in southwestern Illinois that serves communities such as Belleville and connects them to the broader regional road network.
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B.
Illinois Route 171
Illinois Route 171 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through the southwestern suburbs of Chicago, serving communities such as Lockport and connecting several major regional routes.
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C.
Illinois Route 176
Illinois Route 176 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that connects several communities in McHenry and Lake counties, serving as a key regional arterial route.
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D.
Illinois Route 174
Illinois Route 174 is a former, short state highway designation in Illinois that has since been decommissioned or renumbered.
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E.
Illinois Route 173
Illinois Route 173 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs near the Wisconsin border, connecting several communities across multiple counties.
- 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: Illinois Route 157 Target entity description: Illinois Route 157 is a state highway in southwestern Illinois that connects communities such as Edwardsville to the St. Louis metropolitan area and nearby interstates.
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A.
Illinois Route 159
Illinois Route 159 is a north–south state highway in southwestern Illinois that serves communities such as Belleville and connects them to the broader regional road network.
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B.
Illinois Route 171
Illinois Route 171 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through the southwestern suburbs of Chicago, serving communities such as Lockport and connecting several major regional routes.
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C.
Illinois Route 176
Illinois Route 176 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that connects several communities in McHenry and Lake counties, serving as a key regional arterial route.
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D.
Illinois Route 174
Illinois Route 174 is a former, short state highway designation in Illinois that has since been decommissioned or renumbered.
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E.
Illinois Route 173
Illinois Route 173 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs near the Wisconsin border, connecting several communities across multiple counties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Illinois state highway
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Illinois Route 13
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 162 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 255 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsToMetropolitanArea | St. Louis metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| highwayNumber | 157 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Illinois State Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Greater St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Southwestern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Illinois Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | surface transportation network of the St. Louis region ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Madison County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Clair County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Caseyville, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Collinsville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Edwardsville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Fairview Heights, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Glen Carbon, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
local access ⓘ regional connectivity ⓘ |
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: Illinois Route 157 Description of subject: Illinois Route 157 is a state highway in southwestern Illinois that connects communities such as Edwardsville to the St. Louis metropolitan area and nearby interstates.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.