Illinois Route 172
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Illinois Route 172 is a state highway in northwestern Illinois that serves as a local connector route, including access to the village of Tampico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illinois Route 172 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T639394 — 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 172 Context triple: [Tampico, Illinois, locatedOn, Illinois Route 172]
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A.
I-290
I-290 is a major Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a key commuter route connecting Chicago with its western suburbs.
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B.
Interstate 290
Interstate 290 is a highway in western New York that serves as a key connector between Buffalo’s suburbs and major regional routes.
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C.
U.S. Route 71
U.S. Route 71 is a major north–south United States highway running from Louisiana through several Midwestern states to the Canadian border in Minnesota.
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D.
Interstate 74
Interstate 74 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states, including a segment in North Carolina.
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E.
State Route 168
State Route 168 is a California state highway that runs from the Fresno area into the Sierra Nevada, providing access to mountain communities and recreational areas.
- 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 172 Target entity description: Illinois Route 172 is a state highway in northwestern Illinois that serves as a local connector route, including access to the village of Tampico.
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A.
I-290
I-290 is a major Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a key commuter route connecting Chicago with its western suburbs.
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B.
Interstate 290
Interstate 290 is a highway in western New York that serves as a key connector between Buffalo’s suburbs and major regional routes.
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C.
U.S. Route 71
U.S. Route 71 is a major north–south United States highway running from Louisiana through several Midwestern states to the Canadian border in Minnesota.
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D.
Interstate 74
Interstate 74 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states, including a segment in North Carolina.
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E.
State Route 168
State Route 168 is a California state highway that runs from the Fresno area into the Sierra Nevada, providing access to mountain communities and recreational areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Illinois state highway
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| accesses |
rural areas of Bureau County
ⓘ
rural areas of Whiteside County ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Illinois Route 40
ⓘ
Illinois Route 92 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| directionA | South ⓘ |
| directionB | North ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Illinois Route 40
ⓘ
Illinois Route 92 ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 172 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Illinois state highway system
ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois State Highway System
|
| locatedIn |
Bureau County, Illinois
ⓘ
Whiteside County ⓘ
surface form:
Whiteside County, Illinois
|
| maintainedBy | Illinois Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Tampico, Illinois ⓘ |
| providesAccessTo | village of Tampico ⓘ |
| region | northwestern Illinois ⓘ |
| routeDesignation | IL 172 ⓘ |
| serves | local traffic in northwestern Illinois ⓘ |
| servesAs | local connector route ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| terminusA | near Tampico, Illinois ⓘ |
| terminusB | near Prophetstown, Illinois ⓘ |
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 172 Description of subject: Illinois Route 172 is a state highway in northwestern Illinois that serves as a local connector route, including access to the village of Tampico.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tampico, Illinois