State Route 17

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State Route 17 is a major north–south highway in California that connects the South Bay area with Santa Cruz, traversing the Santa Cruz Mountains and serving as a key commuter and recreational route.

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Label Occurrences
State Route 17 canonical 8

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf road transportation infrastructure
state highway
abbreviation CA 17
SR 17
connects City of Santa Cruz
surface form: City of Santa Cruz, California

South Bay
surface form: South Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)
connectsTo California State Route 1
California State Route 85
California State Route 9
Interstate 280
Interstate 880
country United States of America
surface form: United States
crosses Santa Clara–Santa Cruz county line
direction north–south
function commuter route
recreational route
hasLaneCount 4 lanes
6 lanes
hasSpeedLimit approximately 50–65 miles per hour (varies by segment)
highwayNumber 17
highwayType State Route
isPartOfCorridor regional corridor between San Jose and Santa Cruz
knownFor collision risk in adverse weather
heavy commuter traffic
winding mountain segments
locatedIn Santa Clara County
surface form: Santa Clara County, California

Santa Cruz County, California
maintainedBy Caltrans
surface form: California Department of Transportation
partOf California State Route
surface form: California State Route system
passesNear Lexington Reservoir
Redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains
passesThrough Los Gatos, California
surface form: City of Los Gatos, California

Scotts Valley, California
surface form: Town of Scotts Valley, California
regionServed Monterey Bay Area
surface form: Monterey Bay area

San Francisco Bay Area
roadwayType divided highway
expressway (in some segments)
freeway (in some segments)
safetyMeasures improved signage and speed enforcement zones
median barriers in mountain sections
state California, United States
surface form: California
terminusNorth Interstate 280 (nearby)
surface form: Interstate 280 in San Jose, California

Interstate 880
surface form: Interstate 880 in San Jose, California
terminusSouth California State Route 1
surface form: California State Route 1 in Santa Cruz, California
traverses Santa Cruz Mountains
usedFor access to Santa Cruz beaches
access to Silicon Valley employment centers

How these facts were elicited

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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 17
Description of subject: State Route 17 is a major north–south highway in California that connects the South Bay area with Santa Cruz, traversing the Santa Cruz Mountains and serving as a key commuter and recreational route.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Santa Cruz Mountains crossedBy State Route 17
Los Gatos transportationAccess State Route 17
Campbell hasTransportationConnection State Route 17
Los Gatos Mountains (Santa Cruz Mountains foothills) hasRoad State Route 17
subject surface form: Los Gatos Mountains
Interstate 880 previousDesignation State Route 17
State Route 85 interchangeWith State Route 17