M-96 (Michigan highway)
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M-96 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs through southwestern parts of the state, including Kalamazoo County, serving as a regional connector route.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M-96 (Michigan highway) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2803275 — 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: M-96 (Michigan highway) Context triple: [Kalamazoo County, Michigan, traversedBy, M-96 (Michigan highway)]
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A.
M-59 (Michigan highway)
M-59 is a major east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan that serves as a key transportation corridor through the northern suburbs of the Detroit metropolitan area.
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B.
M-69
M-69 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that runs east–west through rural areas including Delta County.
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C.
M-26 (Michigan highway)
M-26 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that serves as a key route through the Keweenaw Peninsula, connecting communities such as Houghton and providing access to scenic Lake Superior shoreline areas.
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D.
M-20 (Michigan highway)
M-20 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs across the central part of the Lower Peninsula, connecting communities such as Big Rapids and Mount Pleasant to US-131 and US-10.
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E.
M-28 (Michigan highway)
M-28 is a major east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that serves as a key route through communities such as Marquette.
- 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: M-96 (Michigan highway) Target entity description: M-96 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs through southwestern parts of the state, including Kalamazoo County, serving as a regional connector route.
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A.
M-59 (Michigan highway)
M-59 is a major east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan that serves as a key transportation corridor through the northern suburbs of the Detroit metropolitan area.
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B.
M-69
M-69 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that runs east–west through rural areas including Delta County.
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C.
M-26 (Michigan highway)
M-26 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that serves as a key route through the Keweenaw Peninsula, connecting communities such as Houghton and providing access to scenic Lake Superior shoreline areas.
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D.
M-20 (Michigan highway)
M-20 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs across the central part of the Lower Peninsula, connecting communities such as Big Rapids and Mount Pleasant to US-131 and US-10.
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E.
M-28 (Michigan highway)
M-28 is a major east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that serves as a key route through communities such as Marquette.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway in Michigan
ⓘ
state trunkline highway ⓘ |
| accessControl | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Michigan
ⓘ
Transportation in Calhoun County, Michigan ⓘ Transportation in Eaton County, Michigan ⓘ Transportation in Kalamazoo County, Michigan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | Michigan Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 96 ⓘ |
| highwayType | M highway ⓘ |
| isNumberedRelativeTo | Interstate 96 ⓘ |
| isSignedAs | M-96 ⓘ |
| locatedInJurisdiction |
Michigan
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Michigan
|
| locatedInRegion |
Southwest Michigan region
ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern Michigan
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Michigan Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Michigan state trunkline highway system
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan State Trunkline Highway System
|
| passesNear |
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Kalamazoo, Michigan
|
| passesThrough |
Calhoun County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eaton County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalamazoo County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadFunction | connector between local communities ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeDesignation | M-96 ⓘ |
| servesAs | regional connector route ⓘ |
| stateHighwaySystem | Michigan state trunkline highway system ⓘ |
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: M-96 (Michigan highway) Description of subject: M-96 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs through southwestern parts of the state, including Kalamazoo County, serving as a regional connector route.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.