Texas State Highway 16
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Texas State Highway 16 is a major north–south state highway in Texas that runs from the Mexican border near Zapata through the Texas Hill Country to the Dallas–Fort Worth region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Texas State Highway 16 canonical | 4 |
| State Highway 16 (Texas) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1850680 — 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: Texas State Highway 16 Context triple: [Hill Country of Texas, hasHighway, Texas State Highway 16]
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A.
Texas State Highway 12
Texas State Highway 12 is a state-maintained roadway in Texas that serves as a regional connector route providing access to communities in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
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B.
Texas State Highway 130
Texas State Highway 130 is a toll road in central Texas known for its high speed limits and role as an alternative route to relieve congestion on Interstate 35.
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C.
Texas State Highway 6
Texas State Highway 6 is a major north–south state highway in Texas that runs from the Gulf Coast near Galveston through the Brazos Valley and up toward the Dallas–Fort Worth region, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
Texas State Highway 190
Texas State Highway 190, commonly known as the President George Bush Turnpike, is a major east–west toll roadway in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area of Texas.
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E.
Texas State Highway 121
Texas State Highway 121 is a major north–south state highway in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area of Texas, serving as a key commuter and regional connector route.
- 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: Texas State Highway 16 Target entity description: Texas State Highway 16 is a major north–south state highway in Texas that runs from the Mexican border near Zapata through the Texas Hill Country to the Dallas–Fort Worth region.
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A.
Texas State Highway 12
Texas State Highway 12 is a state-maintained roadway in Texas that serves as a regional connector route providing access to communities in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
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B.
Texas State Highway 130
Texas State Highway 130 is a toll road in central Texas known for its high speed limits and role as an alternative route to relieve congestion on Interstate 35.
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C.
Texas State Highway 6
Texas State Highway 6 is a major north–south state highway in Texas that runs from the Gulf Coast near Galveston through the Brazos Valley and up toward the Dallas–Fort Worth region, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
Texas State Highway 190
Texas State Highway 190, commonly known as the President George Bush Turnpike, is a major east–west toll roadway in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area of Texas.
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E.
Texas State Highway 121
Texas State Highway 121 is a major north–south state highway in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area of Texas, serving as a key commuter and regional connector route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 10
ⓘ
Interstate 20 ⓘ U.S. Route 281 ⓘ U.S. Route 90 ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 16 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hill Country of Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Texas Hill Country
|
| maintainedBy | Texas Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| near | Mexican border ⓘ |
| partOf |
Texas state highways
ⓘ
surface form:
Texas state highway system
|
| passesThrough |
Archer County, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Atascosa County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Bandera County ⓘ
surface form:
Bandera County, Texas
Bandera, Texas ⓘ Bee County, Texas ⓘ Bexar County ⓘ
surface form:
Bexar County, Texas
Comanche County, Texas ⓘ Comanche, Texas area ⓘ Duval County, Texas ⓘ Erath County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Fredericksburg, Texas area ⓘ Gillespie County ⓘ
surface form:
Gillespie County, Texas
Goliad County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Graham, Texas ⓘ
surface form:
Graham, Texas area
Jack County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Wells County, Texas ⓘ Karnes County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Kerr County ⓘ
surface form:
Kerr County, Texas
Kerrville ⓘ
surface form:
Kerrville, Texas
Llano County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Llano, Texas area ⓘ Palo Pinto County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Refugio County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ San Antonio, Texas metropolitan area ⓘ San Saba County ⓘ
surface form:
San Saba County, Texas
Stephenville, Texas ⓘ
surface form:
Stephenville, Texas area
Webb County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Wichita County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Wichita Falls, Texas ⓘ
surface form:
Wichita Falls, Texas area
Zapata County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsFrom | near Zapata, Texas ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Hill Country of Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Texas Hill Country
|
| runsTo |
Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
ⓘ
surface form:
Dallas–Fort Worth region
|
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| terminusRegion |
North Texas
ⓘ
South Texas ⓘ |
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: Texas State Highway 16 Description of subject: Texas State Highway 16 is a major north–south state highway in Texas that runs from the Mexican border near Zapata through the Texas Hill Country to the Dallas–Fort Worth region.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bandera, Texas
this entity surface form:
State Highway 16 (Texas)