Iowa primary road system
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The Iowa primary road system is the statewide network of major highways and routes that form the backbone of Iowa’s public road transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa State Highway System | 4 |
| Iowa primary highway system | 1 |
| Iowa primary road system canonical | 1 |
| Iowa transportation network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2203181 — 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: Iowa primary road system Context triple: [Iowa Department of Transportation, responsibleFor, Iowa primary road system]
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A.
Iowa Highway 192
Iowa Highway 192 is a short state highway in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that primarily serves as an urban connector route linking local streets with the Interstate system.
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B.
Iowa Highway 191
Iowa Highway 191 is a state highway in western Iowa that runs generally north–south, connecting small rural communities and providing regional access to larger routes.
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C.
Iowa Highway 92
Iowa Highway 92 is an east–west state highway running across southern Iowa, connecting multiple communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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D.
Iowa Highway 58
Iowa Highway 58 is a state highway in Iowa that serves as a key north–south route through the Cedar Falls–Waterloo area, connecting local traffic to major regional roads.
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E.
Iowa Highway 163
Iowa Highway 163 is a primary state highway in Iowa that runs southeast–northwest, connecting Des Moines with cities such as Pella and Oskaloosa and serving as a key 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: Iowa primary road system Target entity description: The Iowa primary road system is the statewide network of major highways and routes that form the backbone of Iowa’s public road transportation infrastructure.
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A.
Iowa Highway 192
Iowa Highway 192 is a short state highway in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that primarily serves as an urban connector route linking local streets with the Interstate system.
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B.
Iowa Highway 191
Iowa Highway 191 is a state highway in western Iowa that runs generally north–south, connecting small rural communities and providing regional access to larger routes.
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C.
Iowa Highway 92
Iowa Highway 92 is an east–west state highway running across southern Iowa, connecting multiple communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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D.
Iowa Highway 58
Iowa Highway 58 is a state highway in Iowa that serves as a key north–south route through the Cedar Falls–Waterloo area, connecting local traffic to major regional roads.
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E.
Iowa Highway 163
Iowa Highway 163 is a primary state highway in Iowa that runs southeast–northwest, connecting Des Moines with cities such as Pella and Oskaloosa and serving as a key regional transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road network
ⓘ
state highway system ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Iowa Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| connects |
Iowa to neighboring states
ⓘ
major cities in Iowa ⓘ rural areas to urban centers in Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distinguishedFrom |
Iowa municipal street systems
ⓘ
Iowa secondary road system ⓘ |
| function | backbone of Iowa’s public road transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| governedBy | Iowa state law ⓘ |
| hasAccessTo |
major airports in Iowa
ⓘ
major freight terminals in Iowa ⓘ major river crossings in Iowa ⓘ state borders of Iowa ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Interstate Highways in Iowa
ⓘ
Iowa primary highways ⓘ U.S. Highways in Iowa ⓘ state highways in Iowa ⓘ |
| hasDesignStandard |
federal highway design standards (for applicable routes)
ⓘ
state highway design standards ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | state-level ⓘ |
| hasLegalClassification | primary roads ⓘ |
| includesRouteType |
Interstate highways
ⓘ
United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. numbered highways
numbered state highways ⓘ |
| infrastructureType | surface transportation ⓘ |
| integratedWith | national highway network of the United States ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Iowa public road network
ⓘ
Iowa transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | road transport ⓘ |
| networkType | primary roads ⓘ |
| partOf | Iowa state highway system ⓘ |
| purpose |
facilitate statewide travel
ⓘ
support economic activity and freight movement ⓘ support regional connectivity ⓘ |
| roadHierarchyLevel | primary ⓘ |
| supports |
agricultural transport in Iowa
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commuter traffic ⓘ tourism in Iowa ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to major economic centers in Iowa
ⓘ
intercity travel ⓘ long-distance travel within Iowa ⓘ truck and freight movement ⓘ |
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: Iowa primary road system Description of subject: The Iowa primary road system is the statewide network of major highways and routes that form the backbone of Iowa’s public road transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Iowa transportation network
this entity surface form:
Iowa State Highway System
this entity surface form:
Iowa State Highway System
this entity surface form:
Iowa State Highway System
this entity surface form:
Iowa primary highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa State Highway System