Wisconsin Highway 42
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Wisconsin Highway 42 is a state highway in Wisconsin that runs through Door County and other parts of northeastern Wisconsin, providing access to communities along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wisconsin State Highway 42 | 4 |
| Wisconsin Highway 42 canonical | 3 |
| WIS 42 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3702119 — 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: Wisconsin Highway 42 Context triple: [Northport, Wisconsin, terminusOf, Wisconsin Highway 42]
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A.
Wisconsin Highway 44
Wisconsin Highway 44 is a state highway in Wisconsin that runs generally north–south, connecting several communities in the east-central part of the state.
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B.
Wisconsin Highway 35
Wisconsin Highway 35 is a major north–south state highway in Wisconsin that runs along much of the state’s western border, connecting numerous communities from the Illinois state line to Superior on Lake Superior.
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C.
Wisconsin Highway 23
Wisconsin Highway 23 is a major east–west state highway in Wisconsin that connects numerous communities across the central part of the state.
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D.
Wisconsin Highway 93
Wisconsin Highway 93 is a state highway in western Wisconsin that runs generally south from Eau Claire through rural communities and farmland, connecting to other regional routes.
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E.
Wisconsin State Highway 29
Wisconsin State Highway 29 is a major east–west state highway in Wisconsin that connects Green Bay to the Twin Cities corridor and serves as an important regional transportation route across 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: Wisconsin Highway 42 Target entity description: Wisconsin Highway 42 is a state highway in Wisconsin that runs through Door County and other parts of northeastern Wisconsin, providing access to communities along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
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A.
Wisconsin Highway 44
Wisconsin Highway 44 is a state highway in Wisconsin that runs generally north–south, connecting several communities in the east-central part of the state.
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B.
Wisconsin Highway 35
Wisconsin Highway 35 is a major north–south state highway in Wisconsin that runs along much of the state’s western border, connecting numerous communities from the Illinois state line to Superior on Lake Superior.
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C.
Wisconsin Highway 23
Wisconsin Highway 23 is a major east–west state highway in Wisconsin that connects numerous communities across the central part of the state.
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D.
Wisconsin Highway 93
Wisconsin Highway 93 is a state highway in western Wisconsin that runs generally south from Eau Claire through rural communities and farmland, connecting to other regional routes.
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E.
Wisconsin State Highway 29
Wisconsin State Highway 29 is a major east–west state highway in Wisconsin that connects Green Bay to the Twin Cities corridor and serves as an important regional transportation route across the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
STH 42
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Wisconsin Highway 42 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WIS 42
WIS-42 ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Wisconsin
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Transportation in Brown County, Wisconsin ⓘ Transportation in Door County, Wisconsin ⓘ Transportation in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin ⓘ Transportation in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| connectsToHighwayAtSouthernTerminus |
Interstate 43
NERFINISHED
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Wisconsin Highway 23 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| directionalOrientation | north–south ⓘ |
| followsShoreOf | Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
U.S. Route 41
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wisconsin Highway 57 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
Wisconsin State Trunk Highway system
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surface form:
Wisconsin State Trunk Highway System
|
| locatedInRegion | northeastern Wisconsin ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Wisconsin Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| notableFeature | series of sharp curves near Northport in Door County ⓘ |
| passesThroughCommunity |
Algoma, Wisconsin
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Cleveland, Wisconsin ⓘ Egg Harbor, Wisconsin ⓘ Fish Creek, Wisconsin ⓘ Kellnersville, Wisconsin ⓘ Kewaunee, Wisconsin ⓘ Luxemburg, Wisconsin ⓘ Mishicot, Wisconsin ⓘ Sister Bay, Wisconsin ⓘ Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin ⓘ Two Rivers, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
Brown County
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Door County ⓘ Kewaunee County NERFINISHED ⓘ Manitowoc County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesAccessTo |
Door County tourism destinations
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Lake Michigan shoreline communities ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Door Peninsula region
ⓘ
surface form:
Door Peninsula
|
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| sharesConcurrencyWith | Wisconsin Highway 57 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| terminusNorthDetail | ferry dock for Washington Island Ferry Line ⓘ |
| terminusNorthLocation | Northport, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| terminusSouthLocation | Sheboygan, Wisconsin ⓘ |
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: Wisconsin Highway 42 Description of subject: Wisconsin Highway 42 is a state highway in Wisconsin that runs through Door County and other parts of northeastern Wisconsin, providing access to communities along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wisconsin State Highway 42
this entity surface form:
Wisconsin State Highway 42
this entity surface form:
Wisconsin State Highway 42
this entity surface form:
Wisconsin State Highway 42
this entity surface form:
WIS 42