New York State Route 21
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New York State Route 21 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities between the Lake Ontario shoreline and the Finger Lakes region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New York State Route 21 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3095497 — 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 21 Context triple: [Palmyra, New York, United States, hasStateRoute, New York State Route 21]
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A.
New York State Route 23
New York State Route 23 is an east–west state highway in New York that runs across the state’s central and eastern regions, connecting rural communities, small cities, and major routes in the Catskills and beyond.
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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 17
New York State Route 17 is a major east–west highway in New York that connects the Southern Tier region to the lower Hudson Valley and serves as a key corridor between Pennsylvania and the New York City metropolitan area.
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D.
New York State Route 12
New York State Route 12 is a major north–south state highway in New York that runs through the central and northern regions, connecting communities from the Utica area toward the St. Lawrence River.
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E.
New York State Route 2
New York State Route 2 is a state highway in eastern New York that continues the east–west corridor from Massachusetts Route 2 into the Capital District and the Taconic Mountains.
- 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 21 Target entity description: New York State Route 21 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities between the Lake Ontario shoreline and the Finger Lakes region.
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A.
New York State Route 23
New York State Route 23 is an east–west state highway in New York that runs across the state’s central and eastern regions, connecting rural communities, small cities, and major routes in the Catskills and beyond.
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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 17
New York State Route 17 is a major east–west highway in New York that connects the Southern Tier region to the lower Hudson Valley and serves as a key corridor between Pennsylvania and the New York City metropolitan area.
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D.
New York State Route 12
New York State Route 12 is a major north–south state highway in New York that runs through the central and northern regions, connecting communities from the Utica area toward the St. Lawrence River.
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E.
New York State Route 2
New York State Route 2 is a state highway in eastern New York that continues the east–west corridor from Massachusetts Route 2 into the Capital District and the Taconic Mountains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
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state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Finger Lakes communities and western New York communities
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Lake Ontario shoreline and inland communities ⓘ communities along Lake Ontario ⓘ communities in the Finger Lakes region ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
New York State Route 104
NERFINISHED
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New York State Route 31 NERFINISHED ⓘ New York State Route 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ New York State Route 96 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 21 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | New York State Route System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNumberedAfter | New York State Route 20A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNumberedBefore | New York State Route 22 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | New York State Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | New York State highway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Canandaigua Lake
NERFINISHED
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Keuka Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Alfred, New York
NERFINISHED
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Allegany County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Almond, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Andover, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Canandaigua, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Hornell, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Livingston County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Naples, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontario County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Steuben County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayland, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Yates County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughRegion | Finger Lakes region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Western New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| roadType | state route ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| terminusNorthLocation | Williamson, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusNorthNearbyFeature | Lake Ontario shoreline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusSouthRegion | Finger Lakes region 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: New York State Route 21 Description of subject: New York State Route 21 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities between the Lake Ontario shoreline and the Finger Lakes region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.