California State Route 178
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California State Route 178 is a major east–west highway in California that runs from Bakersfield through the Kern River Canyon and across the Mojave Desert toward Death Valley National Park.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| California State Route 178 canonical | 12 |
| California State Route 178 (eastern portion) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T778393 — 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: California State Route 178 Context triple: [Baker, California, roadJunction, California State Route 178]
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A.
California State Route 188
California State Route 188 is a short state highway in San Diego County that serves as a connector between the U.S.–Mexico border at Tecate and State Route 94.
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B.
California State Route 190
California State Route 190 is an east–west state highway in California that traverses the Sierra Nevada and Death Valley, providing access to Death Valley National Park and connecting remote desert and mountain communities.
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C.
California State Route 88
California State Route 88 is a scenic highway in California that crosses the Sierra Nevada, providing an all-weather route between the Central Valley and Nevada via Carson Pass.
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D.
California State Route 89
California State Route 89 is a scenic north–south highway in California that winds through the Sierra Nevada and other mountainous regions, connecting small communities, national forests, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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E.
California State Route 108
California State Route 108 is a scenic east–west highway in central California that crosses the Sierra Nevada via the high-elevation Sonora Pass, connecting the Central Valley with the eastern Sierra region.
- 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: California State Route 178 Target entity description: California State Route 178 is a major east–west highway in California that runs from Bakersfield through the Kern River Canyon and across the Mojave Desert toward Death Valley National Park.
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A.
California State Route 188
California State Route 188 is a short state highway in San Diego County that serves as a connector between the U.S.–Mexico border at Tecate and State Route 94.
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B.
California State Route 190
California State Route 190 is an east–west state highway in California that traverses the Sierra Nevada and Death Valley, providing access to Death Valley National Park and connecting remote desert and mountain communities.
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C.
California State Route 88
California State Route 88 is a scenic highway in California that crosses the Sierra Nevada, providing an all-weather route between the Central Valley and Nevada via Carson Pass.
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D.
California State Route 89
California State Route 89 is a scenic north–south highway in California that winds through the Sierra Nevada and other mountainous regions, connecting small communities, national forests, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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E.
California State Route 108
California State Route 108 is a scenic east–west highway in central California that crosses the Sierra Nevada via the high-elevation Sonora Pass, connecting the Central Valley with the eastern Sierra region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
California State Route
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
CA 178
ⓘ
SR 178 ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Bakersfield
ⓘ
surface form:
Bakersfield, California
Ridgecrest, California ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| hasBridgeOver | Kern River ⓘ |
| hasScenicSection | Kern River Canyon segment ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 178 ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Caltrans
ⓘ
surface form:
California Department of Transportation
|
| partOf |
California state highway system
ⓘ
surface form:
California State Highway System
|
| passesNear |
Lake Isabella
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Isabella, California
|
| passesThrough |
Inyo County, California
ⓘ
Kern County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Ridgecrest, California ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| runsFrom |
Bakersfield
ⓘ
surface form:
Bakersfield, California
|
| runsThrough |
Kern River Canyon
ⓘ
Mojave Desert ⓘ |
| runsToward |
Death Valley National Park (partial)
ⓘ
surface form:
Death Valley National Park
|
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| terrain |
desert
ⓘ
mountainous canyon ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile transportation
ⓘ
freight transport ⓘ tourist access to Death Valley region ⓘ |
| westernTerminus |
Bakersfield
ⓘ
surface form:
Bakersfield, California
|
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: California State Route 178 Description of subject: California State Route 178 is a major east–west highway in California that runs from Bakersfield through the Kern River Canyon and across the Mojave Desert toward Death Valley National Park.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
California State Route 178 (eastern portion)
subject surface form:
Eastern California
subject surface form:
Shoshone, California