US 31
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US 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US 31 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2275720 — 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: US 31 Context triple: [M-72, connectsTo, US 31]
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A.
U.S. Route 3
U.S. Route 3 is a north–south United States highway running through Massachusetts and New Hampshire, connecting the Boston metropolitan area with the New Hampshire Lakes Region and beyond.
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B.
U.S. Route 30
U.S. Route 30 is a major east–west U.S. highway that spans from the East Coast to the Midwest, passing through multiple states and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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C.
SR 316
SR 316 is a major east–west state highway in Georgia that connects the Atlanta metropolitan area with the city of Athens.
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D.
U.S. Route 5
U.S. Route 5 is a major north–south United States highway running through New England, primarily paralleling the Connecticut River from Connecticut to the Canadian border.
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E.
U.S. Route 71
U.S. Route 71 is a major north–south United States highway running from Louisiana through several Midwestern states to the Canadian border in Minnesota.
- 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: US 31 Target entity description: US 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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A.
U.S. Route 3
U.S. Route 3 is a north–south United States highway running through Massachusetts and New Hampshire, connecting the Boston metropolitan area with the New Hampshire Lakes Region and beyond.
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B.
U.S. Route 30
U.S. Route 30 is a major east–west U.S. highway that spans from the East Coast to the Midwest, passing through multiple states and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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C.
SR 316
SR 316 is a major east–west state highway in Georgia that connects the Atlanta metropolitan area with the city of Athens.
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D.
U.S. Route 5
U.S. Route 5 is a major north–south United States highway running through New England, primarily paralleling the Connecticut River from Connecticut to the Canadian border.
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E.
U.S. Route 71
U.S. Route 71 is a major north–south United States highway running from Louisiana through several Midwestern states to the Canadian border in Minnesota.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway
ⓘ
United States Numbered Highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 65
ⓘ
Interstate 75 ⓘ US-10 ⓘ
surface form:
US 10
US 12 ⓘ US 20 ⓘ US 231 ⓘ US 30 through Portland ⓘ
surface form:
US 30
US 41 ⓘ US 90 ⓘ US 98 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followsAlong |
Lake Michigan shoreline
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Michigan shoreline in Michigan
|
| generalDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| hasBypass | bypasses around some urban areas ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration |
multi-lane divided highway segments
ⓘ
two-lane rural segments ⓘ |
| hasTerminus |
Mackinaw City, Michigan
ⓘ
Mobile, Alabama ⓘ |
| isParallelTo |
Interstate 65 in parts of Alabama
ⓘ
Interstate 65 in parts of Indiana ⓘ Interstate 65 in parts of Kentucky ⓘ Interstate 65 in parts of Tennessee ⓘ Interstate 75 in parts of Michigan ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
Southern United States ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThroughState |
Alabama
ⓘ
Indiana ⓘ Kentucky ⓘ Michigan ⓘ Tennessee ⓘ |
| runsThroughCity |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Birmingham, Alabama
Bowling Green, Kentucky ⓘ Decatur, Alabama ⓘ Indianapolis ⓘ
surface form:
Indianapolis, Indiana
Louisville, Kentucky ⓘ Mobile, Alabama ⓘ Muskegon, Michigan ⓘ Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee
Petoskey, Michigan, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Petoskey, Michigan
South Bend, Indiana ⓘ Traverse City, Michigan ⓘ |
| servesAs | regional transportation corridor ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transport
ⓘ
passenger travel ⓘ |
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: US 31 Description of subject: US 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.