Interstate 240
E143465
Interstate 240 is an auxiliary Interstate highway that forms a beltway around much of Memphis, Tennessee, facilitating regional traffic flow and access to the city.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 240 canonical | 2 |
| Interstate 240 in North Carolina | 1 |
| Interstate 240 in Tennessee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T880782 — 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: Interstate 240 Context triple: [Memphis metropolitan area, majorHighway, Interstate 240]
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A.
Interstate 640
Interstate 640 is an auxiliary beltway of Interstate 40 that serves as a northern bypass around Knoxville, Tennessee.
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B.
Interstate 270
Interstate 270 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the United States that serves as a key commuter and regional connector, including linking the city of Frederick, Maryland, to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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C.
Interstate 66
Interstate 66 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Mid-Atlantic region that connects Washington, D.C. with northern Virginia and extends westward toward the Shenandoah Valley.
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D.
Interstate 285
Interstate 285 is the beltway encircling Atlanta, Georgia, serving as a major bypass and connector for multiple interstate highways around the metropolitan area.
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E.
Interstate 540
Interstate 540 is a beltway highway serving the Raleigh metropolitan area in North Carolina, facilitating regional traffic flow and suburban connectivity.
- 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: Interstate 240 Target entity description: Interstate 240 is an auxiliary Interstate highway that forms a beltway around much of Memphis, Tennessee, facilitating regional traffic flow and access to the city.
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A.
Interstate 640
Interstate 640 is an auxiliary beltway of Interstate 40 that serves as a northern bypass around Knoxville, Tennessee.
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B.
Interstate 270
Interstate 270 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the United States that serves as a key commuter and regional connector, including linking the city of Frederick, Maryland, to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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C.
Interstate 66
Interstate 66 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Mid-Atlantic region that connects Washington, D.C. with northern Virginia and extends westward toward the Shenandoah Valley.
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D.
Interstate 285
Interstate 285 is the beltway encircling Atlanta, Georgia, serving as a major bypass and connector for multiple interstate highways around the metropolitan area.
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E.
Interstate 540
Interstate 540 is a beltway highway serving the Raleigh metropolitan area in North Carolina, facilitating regional traffic flow and suburban connectivity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
auxiliary Interstate Highway
ⓘ
beltway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | I-240 ⓘ |
| beltwayAround |
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis, Tennessee
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| encircles | central Memphis ⓘ |
| facilitates | regional traffic flow around Memphis ⓘ |
| formsJunctionWith |
Interstate 40
ⓘ
Interstate 55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 69 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 385 ⓘ U.S. Route 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 72 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 78 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDirection |
east–west
ⓘ
north–south ⓘ |
| hasFunction | urban beltway ⓘ |
| hasTerminus |
junction with I-40 in eastern Memphis
ⓘ
junction with I-40 in western Memphis ⓘ |
| isNumbered | as a three-digit Interstate ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty | Shelby County, Tennessee ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Tennessee Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System ⓘ |
| passesNear | Memphis International Airport ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Memphis
ⓘ
surface form:
east Memphis
Memphis ⓘ
surface form:
south Memphis
|
| providesAccessTo |
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis, Tennessee
|
| routeNumber | 240 ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis, Tennessee
|
| spurOf | Interstate 40 ⓘ |
| state | Tennessee ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic in Memphis metropolitan area
ⓘ
through traffic bypassing downtown Memphis ⓘ |
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: Interstate 240 Description of subject: Interstate 240 is an auxiliary Interstate highway that forms a beltway around much of Memphis, Tennessee, facilitating regional traffic flow and access to the city.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Interstate 240 in Tennessee
this entity surface form:
Interstate 240 in North Carolina