Maine State Route 140
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Maine State Route 140 is a state highway in Maine that runs through the western part of the state, connecting several small towns and rural communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maine State Route 140 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1527023 — 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: Maine State Route 140 Context triple: [Maine State Route system, hasComponent, Maine State Route 140]
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A.
Maine State Route 114
Maine State Route 114 is a state highway in Maine that runs through the southern part of the state, connecting communities such as Scarborough, Gorham, and Sebago.
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B.
Maine State Route 152
Maine State Route 152 is a state highway in Maine that runs through central communities including Palmyra, providing a regional north–south transportation corridor.
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C.
Maine State Route 139
Maine State Route 139 is a state highway in Maine that runs east–west, connecting several towns and major routes in the central part of the state.
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D.
Maine State Route 137
Maine State Route 137 is a state highway in Maine that runs east–west through central parts of the state, connecting several towns and serving as a regional connector route.
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E.
Maine State Route 150
Maine State Route 150 is a state highway in Maine that runs north from the town of Skowhegan through rural communities, providing regional connectivity in the central part of the state.
- 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: Maine State Route 140 Target entity description: Maine State Route 140 is a state highway in Maine that runs through the western part of the state, connecting several small towns and rural communities.
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A.
Maine State Route 114
Maine State Route 114 is a state highway in Maine that runs through the southern part of the state, connecting communities such as Scarborough, Gorham, and Sebago.
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B.
Maine State Route 152
Maine State Route 152 is a state highway in Maine that runs through central communities including Palmyra, providing a regional north–south transportation corridor.
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C.
Maine State Route 139
Maine State Route 139 is a state highway in Maine that runs east–west, connecting several towns and major routes in the central part of the state.
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D.
Maine State Route 137
Maine State Route 137 is a state highway in Maine that runs east–west through central parts of the state, connecting several towns and serving as a regional connector route.
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E.
Maine State Route 150
Maine State Route 150 is a state highway in Maine that runs north from the town of Skowhegan through rural communities, providing regional connectivity in the central part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ME 140
ⓘ
SR 140 ⓘ |
| accessControl | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| connects |
multiple local roads
ⓘ
small municipalities in western Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasDirection | generally north–south or diagonal alignment ⓘ |
| hasRoadNumber | 140 ⓘ |
| highwayType | state route ⓘ |
| isPublicRoad | true ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Maine
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Maine
|
| laneConfiguration | two-lane road ⓘ |
| locatedIn | rural Maine ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | western Maine ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | Maine State Route system ⓘ |
| roadFunction | regional connector ⓘ |
| roadSignShape | standard Maine state route shield ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| servesArea |
rural communities
ⓘ
small towns ⓘ |
| speedLimitType | posted speed limits vary by segment ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| transportMode | motor vehicles ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile travel
ⓘ
local traffic ⓘ regional traffic ⓘ truck 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: Maine State Route 140 Description of subject: Maine State Route 140 is a state highway in Maine that runs through the western part of the state, connecting several small towns and rural communities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.