Massachusetts Route 27
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Massachusetts Route 27 is a north–south state highway in eastern Massachusetts that connects several suburban communities between the South Shore and the MetroWest region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Massachusetts Route 27 canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1933238 — 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: Massachusetts Route 27 Context triple: [Acton, Massachusetts, roadAccess, Massachusetts Route 27]
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A.
Massachusetts Route 28
Massachusetts Route 28 is a major north–south state highway in Massachusetts that runs from the Cape Cod region through Boston and up to the New Hampshire border.
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B.
Massachusetts Route 24
Massachusetts Route 24 is a major north–south highway in southeastern Massachusetts that links the Boston metropolitan area with cities such as Brockton, Taunton, and Fall River.
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C.
Massachusetts Route 25
Massachusetts Route 25 is a state highway in southeastern Massachusetts that serves as a key connector between Interstate 495 and the Bourne Bridge leading to Cape Cod.
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D.
Massachusetts Route 38
Massachusetts Route 38 is a state highway in Massachusetts that runs generally north–south through communities such as Woburn, Wilmington, and Lowell, serving as a key local arterial route.
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E.
Massachusetts Route 2A
Massachusetts Route 2A is a state highway in Massachusetts that serves as an alternate and more local route to U.S. Route 2 through several cities and towns in the eastern part of the state.
- 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: Massachusetts Route 27 Target entity description: Massachusetts Route 27 is a north–south state highway in eastern Massachusetts that connects several suburban communities between the South Shore and the MetroWest region.
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A.
Massachusetts Route 28
Massachusetts Route 28 is a major north–south state highway in Massachusetts that runs from the Cape Cod region through Boston and up to the New Hampshire border.
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B.
Massachusetts Route 24
Massachusetts Route 24 is a major north–south highway in southeastern Massachusetts that links the Boston metropolitan area with cities such as Brockton, Taunton, and Fall River.
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C.
Massachusetts Route 25
Massachusetts Route 25 is a state highway in southeastern Massachusetts that serves as a key connector between Interstate 495 and the Bourne Bridge leading to Cape Cod.
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D.
Massachusetts Route 38
Massachusetts Route 38 is a state highway in Massachusetts that runs generally north–south through communities such as Woburn, Wilmington, and Lowell, serving as a key local arterial route.
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E.
Massachusetts Route 2A
Massachusetts Route 2A is a state highway in Massachusetts that serves as an alternate and more local route to U.S. Route 2 through several cities and towns in the eastern part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Metrowest (Massachusetts)
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surface form:
MetroWest
South Shore ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 495
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Interstate 95 ⓘ Massachusetts Route 106 NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 109 NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 117 NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 119 NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 123 NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 135 NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 138 NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 1A NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 24 NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 1 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith | major arterial roads in eastern Massachusetts ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 27 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Massachusetts Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | Massachusetts state highway system ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Acton, Massachusetts, United States
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surface form:
Acton, Massachusetts
Bristol County, Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form:
Bristol County
Brockton, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Medfield, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Middlesex County ⓘ Natick, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Norfolk County ⓘ Plymouth County ⓘ Sharon, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherborn, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Stoughton, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Sudbury, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Walpole, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayland, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Westford, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | eastern Massachusetts ⓘ |
| roadType | two-lane highway ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Metrowest (Massachusetts)
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surface form:
MetroWest
South Shore ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Chelmsford, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | Kingston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Massachusetts Route 27 Description of subject: Massachusetts Route 27 is a north–south state highway in eastern Massachusetts that connects several suburban communities between the South Shore and the MetroWest region.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Acton, Massachusetts
subject surface form:
Kingston, Massachusetts
subject surface form:
Pembroke, Massachusetts
subject surface form:
Acton, Massachusetts