U.S. Route 85
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U.S. Route 85 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central and Rocky Mountain states to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 85 canonical | 4 |
| U.S. Route 85 (historic) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T220068 — 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 85 Context triple: [GA 85, isNumberDistinctFrom, U.S. Route 85]
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A.
U.S. Route 68
U.S. Route 68 is a north–south United States highway running through parts of the Midwest and South, connecting communities in states such as Ohio and Kentucky.
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B.
U.S. Route 69
U.S. Route 69 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Texas through several central states, connecting numerous cities and regional transportation networks.
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C.
U.S. Route 95
U.S. Route 95 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Arizona to the Canadian border in Idaho, traversing several western states.
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D.
U.S. Route 501
U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
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E.
U.S. Route 75
U.S. Route 75 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the central United States, serving as a key transportation corridor for cities such as Dallas.
- 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 85 Target entity description: U.S. Route 85 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central and Rocky Mountain states to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
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A.
U.S. Route 68
U.S. Route 68 is a north–south United States highway running through parts of the Midwest and South, connecting communities in states such as Ohio and Kentucky.
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B.
U.S. Route 69
U.S. Route 69 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Texas through several central states, connecting numerous cities and regional transportation networks.
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C.
U.S. Route 95
U.S. Route 95 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Arizona to the Canadian border in Idaho, traversing several western states.
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D.
U.S. Route 501
U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
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E.
U.S. Route 75
U.S. Route 75 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the central United States, serving as a key transportation corridor for cities such as Dallas.
- 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: U.S. Route 85 Description of subject: U.S. Route 85 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central and Rocky Mountain states to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Las Vegas, New Mexico
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 85 (historic)