U.S. Route 26 (nearby access)
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U.S. Route 26 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Pacific Northwest that connects the Portland metropolitan area with central and eastern Oregon and beyond.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Highway 28 (nearby modern route) | 1 |
| U.S. Route 26 (nearby access) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4605467 — 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: U.S. Route 26 (nearby access) Context triple: [Boring, Oregon, hasRoadConnection, U.S. Route 26 (nearby access)]
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A.
U.S. Route 206 (nearby)
U.S. Route 206 is a major north–south United States highway running through New Jersey and Pennsylvania, connecting numerous towns and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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B.
Interstate 26 (nearby)
Interstate 26 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway in the southeastern United States that connects Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
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C.
State Route 260
State Route 260 is a state highway in Washington that serves as an east–west route connecting rural communities and agricultural areas in the southeastern part of the state.
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D.
State Route 260
State Route 260 is a major east–west highway in central Arizona that connects several communities, including Cottonwood, and serves as an important regional travel corridor.
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E.
State Route 26
State Route 26 is a major east–west highway in Washington State that connects rural agricultural areas and small communities across the central part of 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: U.S. Route 26 (nearby access) Target entity description: U.S. Route 26 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Pacific Northwest that connects the Portland metropolitan area with central and eastern Oregon and beyond.
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A.
U.S. Route 206 (nearby)
U.S. Route 206 is a major north–south United States highway running through New Jersey and Pennsylvania, connecting numerous towns and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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B.
Interstate 26 (nearby)
Interstate 26 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway in the southeastern United States that connects Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
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C.
State Route 260
State Route 260 is a state highway in Washington that serves as an east–west route connecting rural communities and agricultural areas in the southeastern part of the state.
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D.
State Route 260
State Route 260 is a major east–west highway in central Arizona that connects several communities, including Cottonwood, and serves as an important regional travel corridor.
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E.
State Route 26
State Route 26 is a major east–west highway in Washington State that connects rural agricultural areas and small communities across the central part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway
ⓘ
east–west highway ⓘ |
| connectsRegion | Portland metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Portland, Oregon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
central Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | west–east ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Interstate 80 near Ogallala, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 15 in Idaho Falls, Idaho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 25 in Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 405 in Portland, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 80 in Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 84 in Portland, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 101 at Seaside, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 20 in Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 287 in Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 385 in Nebraska ⓘ U.S. Route 85 in Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 89 in Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 95 in Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 97 near Madras, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Colorado Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Idaho Transportation Department NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebraska Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon Department of Transportation ⓘ Wyoming Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| number | 26 ⓘ |
| opened | 1920s ⓘ |
| partiallyConcurrentWith |
Interstate 84 in Oregon and Idaho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 20 in Oregon and Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Colorado
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Portland metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsAlong | Snake River in parts of Idaho and Wyoming ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Grand Teton National Park vicinity
NERFINISHED
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John Day Fossil Beds area NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Hood National Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ Treasure Valley in Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Warm Springs Indian Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | U.S. Route 101 at Seaside, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: U.S. Route 26 (nearby access) Description of subject: U.S. Route 26 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Pacific Northwest that connects the Portland metropolitan area with central and eastern Oregon and beyond.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
U.S. Highway 28 (nearby modern route)