Virginia State Route 56
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Virginia State Route 56 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs east–west through the central part of the state, connecting rural communities in the Blue Ridge Mountains to towns in the Piedmont region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virginia State Route 56 canonical | 2 |
| Crabtree Falls Highway (Virginia State Route 56) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4225602 — 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: Virginia State Route 56 Context triple: [Virginia State Route 55, isNumberedBefore, Virginia State Route 56]
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A.
Virginia State Route 55
Virginia State Route 55 is an east–west state highway in northern Virginia that generally parallels Interstate 66, connecting communities such as Gainesville with towns in the Shenandoah Valley.
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B.
Virginia State Route 47
Virginia State Route 47 is a primary state highway in south-central Virginia that connects several rural communities and counties, including Appomattox County, to the broader state road network.
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C.
Virginia State Route 54
Virginia State Route 54 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs east–west through Hanover County, serving as a connector between the town of Ashland and surrounding rural and suburban areas.
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D.
Virginia State Route 193
Virginia State Route 193 is a scenic primary state highway in Northern Virginia that runs through Fairfax County, connecting the Great Falls area with the vicinity of Langley and McLean.
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E.
Virginia State Route 28
Virginia State Route 28 is a primary north–south highway in Northern Virginia that connects communities such as Manassas to major regional routes and serves as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
- 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: Virginia State Route 56 Target entity description: Virginia State Route 56 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs east–west through the central part of the state, connecting rural communities in the Blue Ridge Mountains to towns in the Piedmont region.
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A.
Virginia State Route 55
Virginia State Route 55 is an east–west state highway in northern Virginia that generally parallels Interstate 66, connecting communities such as Gainesville with towns in the Shenandoah Valley.
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B.
Virginia State Route 47
Virginia State Route 47 is a primary state highway in south-central Virginia that connects several rural communities and counties, including Appomattox County, to the broader state road network.
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C.
Virginia State Route 54
Virginia State Route 54 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs east–west through Hanover County, serving as a connector between the town of Ashland and surrounding rural and suburban areas.
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D.
Virginia State Route 193
Virginia State Route 193 is a scenic primary state highway in Northern Virginia that runs through Fairfax County, connecting the Great Falls area with the vicinity of Langley and McLean.
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E.
Virginia State Route 28
Virginia State Route 28 is a primary north–south highway in Northern Virginia that connects communities such as Manassas to major regional routes and serves as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
primary state highway
ⓘ
state highway in Virginia ⓘ |
| connects |
rural communities in the Blue Ridge Mountains
ⓘ
towns in the Piedmont region ⓘ |
| connectsTo | local roads in central Virginia ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| hasAbbreviation |
SR 56
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
VA 56 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 56 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Virginia primary state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | central Virginia ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Virginia Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf | Virginia state highway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughRegion |
Blue Ridge Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Piedmont region of Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved road ⓘ |
| routeType | primary state route ⓘ |
| state | Virginia ⓘ |
| traverses |
Amherst County, Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Appomattox County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Buckingham County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Cumberland County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Fluvanna County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Goochland County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Louisa County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Nelson County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle transportation ⓘ |
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: Virginia State Route 56 Description of subject: Virginia State Route 56 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs east–west through the central part of the state, connecting rural communities in the Blue Ridge Mountains to towns in the Piedmont region.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Crabtree Falls Highway (Virginia State Route 56)