California State Route 85
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California State Route 85 is a major north–south freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects the cities of Mountain View and San Jose, helping to relieve congestion on U.S. Route 101 and Interstate 280.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| California State Route 85 canonical | 6 |
| California State Route 85 in Cupertino | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2573328 — 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: California State Route 85 Context triple: [California state highway system, hasComponent, California State Route 85]
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A.
California State Route 88
California State Route 88 is a scenic highway in California that crosses the Sierra Nevada, providing an all-weather route between the Central Valley and Nevada via Carson Pass.
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B.
California State Route 89
California State Route 89 is a scenic north–south highway in California that winds through the Sierra Nevada and other mountainous regions, connecting small communities, national forests, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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C.
California State Route 84
California State Route 84 is a state highway in California that runs across the San Francisco Bay via the Dumbarton Bridge, connecting the East Bay with the Peninsula.
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D.
California State Route 82
California State Route 82 is a major north–south arterial road on the San Francisco Peninsula that largely follows the historic El Camino Real through numerous Bay Area cities.
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E.
California State Route 58
California State Route 58 is a major east–west highway in California that connects the Central Coast and the southern Central Valley to the Mojave Desert and Interstate 15 near Barstow.
- 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: California State Route 85 Target entity description: California State Route 85 is a major north–south freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects the cities of Mountain View and San Jose, helping to relieve congestion on U.S. Route 101 and Interstate 280.
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A.
California State Route 88
California State Route 88 is a scenic highway in California that crosses the Sierra Nevada, providing an all-weather route between the Central Valley and Nevada via Carson Pass.
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B.
California State Route 89
California State Route 89 is a scenic north–south highway in California that winds through the Sierra Nevada and other mountainous regions, connecting small communities, national forests, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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C.
California State Route 84
California State Route 84 is a state highway in California that runs across the San Francisco Bay via the Dumbarton Bridge, connecting the East Bay with the Peninsula.
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D.
California State Route 82
California State Route 82 is a major north–south arterial road on the San Francisco Peninsula that largely follows the historic El Camino Real through numerous Bay Area cities.
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E.
California State Route 58
California State Route 58 is a major east–west highway in California that connects the Central Coast and the southern Central Valley to the Mojave Desert and Interstate 15 near Barstow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freeway
ⓘ
limited-access highway ⓘ state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SR 85 ⓘ |
| category |
Freeways in California
ⓘ
Roads in Santa Clara County, California ⓘ State highways in California ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Cupertino
ⓘ
Los Altos ⓘ Los Gatos ⓘ Mountain View ⓘ San Jose ⓘ Saratoga ⓘ Sunnyvale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| function |
freeway bypass of U.S. Route 101
ⓘ
relieves congestion on Interstate 280 ⓘ relieves congestion on U.S. Route 101 ⓘ |
| hasCarpoolLanes | yes ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple lanes in each direction ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
California state highway system
ⓘ
surface form:
California State Route system
|
| interchangeWith |
Interstate 280
ⓘ
State Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 237 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 82 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 87 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 101 ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose combined statistical area
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area ⓘ
surface form:
San Jose metropolitan area
|
| maintainedBy |
Caltrans
ⓘ
surface form:
California Department of Transportation
|
| notableFeature |
designed to divert traffic from U.S. Route 101 and Interstate 280
ⓘ
runs parallel to Interstate 280 for part of its length ⓘ runs parallel to U.S. Route 101 for part of its length ⓘ |
| openedAsFreeway | late 20th century ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Santa Clara Valley
ⓘ
Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| region | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| roadType | divided freeway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 85 ⓘ |
| speedLimit | typically 65 mph ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| surface | asphalt ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | U.S. Route 101 in Mountain View ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | U.S. Route 101 in South San Jose ⓘ |
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: California State Route 85 Description of subject: California State Route 85 is a major north–south freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects the cities of Mountain View and San Jose, helping to relieve congestion on U.S. Route 101 and Interstate 280.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
California State Route 85 in Cupertino
subject surface form:
State Route 17 (California)