Interstate 495
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Interstate 495 is a major beltway highway encircling the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, serving as a key route for regional and interstate traffic.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T41304 — 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: Interstate 495 Context triple: [Northern Virginia, hasTransportation, Interstate 495]
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A.
Interstate 66
Interstate 66 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Mid-Atlantic region that connects Washington, D.C. with northern Virginia and extends westward toward the Shenandoah Valley.
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B.
Interstate 395
Interstate 395 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the eastern United States that connects Washington, D.C. with suburban Virginia and serves as a key commuter and regional traffic corridor.
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C.
Dulles Corridor
Dulles Corridor is a major high-technology and business hub in Northern Virginia that stretches along the Dulles Toll Road and connects the Washington, D.C. suburbs to Washington Dulles International Airport.
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D.
Interstate 93
Interstate 93 is a major north–south highway in the New England region of the United States, running from Massachusetts through New Hampshire into Vermont and serving as a key route for regional travel and commerce.
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E.
Massachusetts Turnpike
The Massachusetts Turnpike is a major east–west toll highway in Massachusetts that forms part of Interstate 90 and connects the Boston area with the rest of the state and beyond.
- 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: Interstate 495 Target entity description: Interstate 495 is a major beltway highway encircling the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, serving as a key route for regional and interstate traffic.
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A.
Interstate 66
Interstate 66 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Mid-Atlantic region that connects Washington, D.C. with northern Virginia and extends westward toward the Shenandoah Valley.
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B.
Interstate 395
Interstate 395 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the eastern United States that connects Washington, D.C. with suburban Virginia and serves as a key commuter and regional traffic corridor.
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C.
Dulles Corridor
Dulles Corridor is a major high-technology and business hub in Northern Virginia that stretches along the Dulles Toll Road and connects the Washington, D.C. suburbs to Washington Dulles International Airport.
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D.
Interstate 93
Interstate 93 is a major north–south highway in the New England region of the United States, running from Massachusetts through New Hampshire into Vermont and serving as a key route for regional travel and commerce.
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E.
Massachusetts Turnpike
The Massachusetts Turnpike is a major east–west toll highway in Massachusetts that forms part of Interstate 90 and connects the Boston area with the rest of the state and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Interstate 495 Description of subject: Interstate 495 is a major beltway highway encircling the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, serving as a key route for regional and interstate traffic.
Referenced by (116)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Capital Beltway (I-495/I-95)
subject surface form:
Bethesda, Maryland
this entity surface form:
Capital Beltway (Interstate 495)
subject surface form:
Montgomery County, Maryland