Southern Tier Expressway
E441886
The Southern Tier Expressway is a major east–west highway corridor across New York’s Southern Tier region, largely following the route of future Interstate 86 and connecting cities such as Binghamton, Elmira, and Jamestown.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Southern Tier Expressway canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4479162 — 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: Southern Tier Expressway Context triple: [New York State Route 17, partOf, Southern Tier Expressway]
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A.
West Shore Expressway
The West Shore Expressway is a major limited-access highway on Staten Island in New York City that runs along the island’s western shore, connecting the Outerbridge Crossing to the Staten Island Expressway.
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B.
Southern State Parkway
Southern State Parkway is a major limited-access highway on Long Island, New York, serving as a key east–west commuter and recreational route across the island’s southern communities.
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C.
New York State Thruway
The New York State Thruway is a major toll highway system spanning much of New York State, serving as a key corridor for regional and interstate travel.
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D.
I-88 Corridor
The I-88 Corridor is a major suburban business and technology hub in Illinois, home to numerous corporate headquarters, research facilities, and high-tech industries along Interstate 88 west of Chicago.
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E.
Northern State Parkway
Northern State Parkway is a major limited-access highway on Long Island, New York, that serves as a key east–west commuter route through Nassau and western Suffolk counties.
- 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: Southern Tier Expressway Target entity description: The Southern Tier Expressway is a major east–west highway corridor across New York’s Southern Tier region, largely following the route of future Interstate 86 and connecting cities such as Binghamton, Elmira, and Jamestown.
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A.
West Shore Expressway
The West Shore Expressway is a major limited-access highway on Staten Island in New York City that runs along the island’s western shore, connecting the Outerbridge Crossing to the Staten Island Expressway.
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B.
Southern State Parkway
Southern State Parkway is a major limited-access highway on Long Island, New York, serving as a key east–west commuter and recreational route across the island’s southern communities.
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C.
New York State Thruway
The New York State Thruway is a major toll highway system spanning much of New York State, serving as a key corridor for regional and interstate travel.
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D.
I-88 Corridor
The I-88 Corridor is a major suburban business and technology hub in Illinois, home to numerous corporate headquarters, research facilities, and high-tech industries along Interstate 88 west of Chicago.
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E.
Northern State Parkway
Northern State Parkway is a major limited-access highway on Long Island, New York, that serves as a key east–west commuter route through Nassau and western Suffolk counties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expressway
ⓘ
highway corridor ⓘ road transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Binghamton
NERFINISHED
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Elmira NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamestown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
eastern Southern Tier
ⓘ
western Southern Tier ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| followsRouteOf | future Interstate 86 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsPartOf | primary route between Binghamton and Erie region via I-86 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
divided highway cross-section
ⓘ
grade-separated interchanges ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 390 near Avoca
ⓘ
Interstate 81 in Binghamton ⓘ New York State Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 219 near Salamanca ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple lanes in each direction ⓘ |
| historicalDesignation | New York State Route 17 corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Southern Tier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | New York State Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| namedFor | Southern Tier region of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate 86 corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork |
New York State highway system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Broome County
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cattaraugus County NERFINISHED ⓘ Chautauqua County NERFINISHED ⓘ Chemung County NERFINISHED ⓘ Steuben County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
improve east–west mobility across Southern Tier
ⓘ
support economic development in Southern Tier ⓘ |
| regionType | rural and small-city corridor ⓘ |
| roadType | limited-access highway ⓘ |
| servesAs | major transportation corridor in Southern Tier ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Corning
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Olean NERFINISHED ⓘ Salamanca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| speedLimitType | high-speed expressway ⓘ |
| usedFor |
intercity travel
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regional freight movement ⓘ |
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: Southern Tier Expressway Description of subject: The Southern Tier Expressway is a major east–west highway corridor across New York’s Southern Tier region, largely following the route of future Interstate 86 and connecting cities such as Binghamton, Elmira, and Jamestown.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
New York State Route 17
subject surface form:
New York State Route 17
subject surface form:
Hornell, New York