State Route 240
E185980
State Route 240 is a primary state highway in south-central Washington that serves the Tri-Cities area, connecting key routes and facilitating regional traffic through Benton County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| State Route 240 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T621307 — 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: State Route 240 Context triple: [Benton County, Washington, hasMajorHighway, State Route 240]
-
A.
State Route 29
State Route 29 is a major north–south highway running through California’s Napa Valley, serving as a primary route for accessing its wine country towns and vineyards.
-
B.
State Route 41
State Route 41 is a major north–south California highway that connects the Central Valley city of Fresno with Yosemite National Park and the Central Coast.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
State Route 180
State Route 180 is a major California state highway that runs from the agricultural city of Mendota through Fresno to Kings Canyon National Park, serving as a key east–west corridor in the central San Joaquin Valley.
-
E.
State Route 22
State Route 22 is a primary state highway in Alabama that runs east–west across the state, connecting communities such as Selma and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- 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: State Route 240 Target entity description: State Route 240 is a primary state highway in south-central Washington that serves the Tri-Cities area, connecting key routes and facilitating regional traffic through Benton County.
-
A.
State Route 29
State Route 29 is a major north–south highway running through California’s Napa Valley, serving as a primary route for accessing its wine country towns and vineyards.
-
B.
State Route 41
State Route 41 is a major north–south California highway that connects the Central Valley city of Fresno with Yosemite National Park and the Central Coast.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
State Route 180
State Route 180 is a major California state highway that runs from the agricultural city of Mendota through Fresno to Kings Canyon National Park, serving as a key east–west corridor in the central San Joaquin Valley.
-
E.
State Route 22
State Route 22 is a primary state highway in Alabama that runs east–west across the state, connecting communities such as Selma and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
primary state highway
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Washington (state)
ⓘ
Transportation in Benton County, Washington ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 182
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 82 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 224 ⓘ State Route 225 ⓘ U.S. Route 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 395 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| facilitates | regional connectivity in Benton County ⓘ |
| follows | Columbia River ⓘ |
| hasHighwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| hasRouteNumber | 240 ⓘ |
| isPartOfRegion | Tri-Cities metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Benton County, Washington
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington ⓘ south-central Washington ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Washington State Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Washington State Routes
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington State Route system
|
| passesNear |
Columbia River shoreline
ⓘ
Hanford Site, Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Hanford Site
|
| passesThrough |
Kennewick, Washington
ⓘ
Richland, Washington ⓘ |
| serves |
Kennewick, Washington
ⓘ
Richland, Washington ⓘ Tri-Cities, Washington ⓘ West Richland, Washington ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
freight transport ⓘ regional traffic circulation in Tri-Cities area ⓘ |
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: State Route 240 Description of subject: State Route 240 is a primary state highway in south-central Washington that serves the Tri-Cities area, connecting key routes and facilitating regional traffic through Benton County.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.