New York State Route 78
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New York State Route 78 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities in Erie and Niagara counties, serving as a key local thoroughfare.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New York State Route 78 canonical | 6 |
| NY 78 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T183379 — 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: New York State Route 78 Context triple: [Amherst, New York, hasTransportation, New York State Route 78]
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New York State Route 73
New York State Route 73 is a scenic state highway in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, known for connecting Lake Placid with the Adirondack Northway and providing access to popular hiking and outdoor recreation areas.
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B.
New York State Route 22
New York State Route 22 is a major north–south state highway running along the eastern edge of New York, parallel to the borders with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
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C.
New York State Route 25
New York State Route 25 is a major east–west state highway on Long Island that connects Queens in New York City with numerous communities in Nassau and Suffolk counties, serving as a key commercial and commuter corridor.
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D.
New York State Route 110
New York State Route 110 is a major north–south state highway on Long Island that connects the south shore near Amityville to Huntington and other communities along its busy commercial corridor.
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E.
New York State Route 5
New York State Route 5 is a major east–west state highway in New York that runs across much of the state, connecting numerous cities and towns including Buffalo, Syracuse, and Albany.
- 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: New York State Route 78 Target entity description: New York State Route 78 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities in Erie and Niagara counties, serving as a key local thoroughfare.
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A.
New York State Route 73
New York State Route 73 is a scenic state highway in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, known for connecting Lake Placid with the Adirondack Northway and providing access to popular hiking and outdoor recreation areas.
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B.
New York State Route 22
New York State Route 22 is a major north–south state highway running along the eastern edge of New York, parallel to the borders with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
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C.
New York State Route 25
New York State Route 25 is a major east–west state highway on Long Island that connects Queens in New York City with numerous communities in Nassau and Suffolk counties, serving as a key commercial and commuter corridor.
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D.
New York State Route 110
New York State Route 110 is a major north–south state highway on Long Island that connects the south shore near Amityville to Huntington and other communities along its busy commercial corridor.
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E.
New York State Route 5
New York State Route 5 is a major east–west state highway in New York that runs across much of the state, connecting numerous cities and towns including Buffalo, Syracuse, and Albany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: New York State Route 78 Description of subject: New York State Route 78 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities in Erie and Niagara counties, serving as a key local thoroughfare.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Amherst, New York
this entity surface form:
NY 78