Elgin-O'Hare Expressway
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The Elgin-O'Hare Expressway is a major suburban Chicago highway corridor that connects communities in DuPage and Cook counties and provides access to O'Hare International Airport.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elgin-O'Hare Expressway canonical | 1 |
| Elgin-O'Hare Western Access Project | 1 |
| Elgin–O’Hare Expressway | 1 |
| Elgin–O’Hare corridor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2319863 — 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: Elgin-O'Hare Expressway Context triple: [Roselle, Illinois, locatedNear, Elgin-O'Hare Expressway]
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A.
Eisenhower Expressway
The Eisenhower Expressway is a major Chicago-area freeway (Interstate 290) that runs west from downtown Chicago, serving as a key commuter and transit corridor through the city's western suburbs.
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B.
Kennedy Expressway
The Kennedy Expressway is a major Chicago freeway that carries Interstate 90/94 traffic between downtown and the city's northwest side, including the route to O'Hare International Airport.
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C.
Tri-State Tollway
The Tri-State Tollway is a major toll highway in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the I-294 beltway around the Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
E.C. Row Expressway
The E.C. Row Expressway is a major east–west freeway in Windsor, Ontario, serving as a primary urban arterial route across the city.
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E.
Dan Ryan Expressway
The Dan Ryan Expressway is a major Chicago freeway that carries Interstate 90/94 traffic through the city’s South Side.
- 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: Elgin-O'Hare Expressway Target entity description: The Elgin-O'Hare Expressway is a major suburban Chicago highway corridor that connects communities in DuPage and Cook counties and provides access to O'Hare International Airport.
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A.
Eisenhower Expressway
The Eisenhower Expressway is a major Chicago-area freeway (Interstate 290) that runs west from downtown Chicago, serving as a key commuter and transit corridor through the city's western suburbs.
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B.
Kennedy Expressway
The Kennedy Expressway is a major Chicago freeway that carries Interstate 90/94 traffic between downtown and the city's northwest side, including the route to O'Hare International Airport.
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C.
Tri-State Tollway
The Tri-State Tollway is a major toll highway in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the I-294 beltway around the Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
E.C. Row Expressway
The E.C. Row Expressway is a major east–west freeway in Windsor, Ontario, serving as a primary urban arterial route across the city.
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E.
Dan Ryan Expressway
The Dan Ryan Expressway is a major Chicago freeway that carries Interstate 90/94 traffic through the city’s South Side.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expressway
ⓘ
highway ⓘ road transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| accessControl | tollway ⓘ |
| connectsCommunitiesIn |
Cook County, Illinois
ⓘ
DuPage County, Illinois ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
I-290
ⓘ
surface form:
Interstate 290
Interstate 294 ⓘ
surface form:
Interstate 294 (via extension project)
Interstate 355 ⓘ O'Hare International Airport western access roads ⓘ |
| convertedToTollway | 2010s ⓘ |
| corridorRole | east–west transportation corridor ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerRouteNumber |
Illinois Route 19
ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois Route 19 (temporary designation during construction phases)
|
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasInterchangeWith |
Illinois Route 83
ⓘ
Thorndale Avenue ⓘ U.S. Route 20 (Lake Street) ⓘ |
| hasRouteNumber | Illinois Route 390 ⓘ |
| hasTollCollection | all-electronic tolling ⓘ |
| hasTolls | yes ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | multi-lane divided highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cook County, Illinois
ⓘ
DuPage County, Illinois ⓘ Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Illinois State Toll Highway Authority ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Elgin, Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Elgin, Illinois
O'Hare International Airport ⓘ |
| openedAsFreeway | 1990s ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Illinois State Toll Highway Authority ⓘ |
| partOf |
Illinois Tollway
ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois Tollway system
|
| primaryFunction |
provide access to O'Hare International Airport
ⓘ
serve suburban Chicago commuter traffic ⓘ |
| projectGoal |
create western access to O'Hare International Airport
ⓘ
improve regional mobility in DuPage and Cook counties ⓘ |
| regionServed | northwestern suburbs of Chicago ⓘ |
| regionType | suburban corridor ⓘ |
| roadType | limited-access highway ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Bensenville, Illinois
ⓘ
Itasca, Illinois ⓘ O'Hare International Airport ⓘ Roselle, Illinois ⓘ Wood Dale, Illinois ⓘ |
| transportMode | motor vehicle traffic ⓘ |
| undergoingProject |
Elgin-O'Hare Expressway
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Elgin-O'Hare Western Access Project
|
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: Elgin-O'Hare Expressway Description of subject: The Elgin-O'Hare Expressway is a major suburban Chicago highway corridor that connects communities in DuPage and Cook counties and provides access to O'Hare International Airport.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Elgin–O’Hare Expressway
this entity surface form:
Elgin–O’Hare corridor
this entity surface form:
Elgin-O'Hare Western Access Project