United States Numbered Highway System
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The United States Numbered Highway System is a nationwide network of primary and auxiliary highways established in 1926 to standardize and organize major intercity road travel across the country.
All labels observed (34)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T27093 — 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: United States Numbered Highway System Context triple: [U.S. Route 1, partOf, United States Numbered Highway System]
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U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 is a major north–south United States highway running along the East Coast from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine.
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U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, primarily through New York and New Jersey, connecting numerous cities and historic communities.
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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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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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U.S. Route 90 in Florida
U.S. Route 90 in Florida is a major east–west highway that parallels Interstate 10 across the Florida Panhandle and northern Florida, connecting cities such as Pensacola, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville.
- 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: United States Numbered Highway System Target entity description: The United States Numbered Highway System is a nationwide network of primary and auxiliary highways established in 1926 to standardize and organize major intercity road travel across the country.
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A.
U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 is a major north–south United States highway running along the East Coast from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine.
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B.
U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, primarily through New York and New Jersey, connecting numerous cities and historic communities.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
U.S. Route 90 in Florida
U.S. Route 90 in Florida is a major east–west highway that parallels Interstate 10 across the Florida Panhandle and northern Florida, connecting cities such as Pensacola, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: United States Numbered Highway System Description of subject: The United States Numbered Highway System is a nationwide network of primary and auxiliary highways established in 1926 to standardize and organize major intercity road travel across the country.
Referenced by (603)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
U.S. Route 64 Business (Wendell, North Carolina)
subject surface form:
U.S. Route 9 in New Jersey
U.S. Route 101 (historic alignment in Los Angeles)
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highwaySystem
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United States Numbered Highway System
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subject surface form:
US 74 Bus. (Shelby, North Carolina)
U.S. Route 27 (historic alignment) in Michigan
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highwaySystem
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United States Numbered Highway System
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subject surface form:
U.S. Route 231