Maryland Route 140
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Maryland Route 140 is a primary state highway in Maryland that connects Baltimore’s northwest suburbs, including Owings Mills, to Westminster and other communities in Carroll County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maryland Route 140 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4881014 — 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: Maryland Route 140 Context triple: [Owings Mills, Maryland, majorRoad, Maryland Route 140]
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A.
Maryland Route 410
Maryland Route 410 is a major east–west state highway in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area of Maryland, connecting several inner suburbs in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties.
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B.
Maryland Route 145
Maryland Route 145 is a state highway in northern Baltimore County, Maryland, that serves as an east–west connector through rural and suburban communities including the Hunt Valley area.
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C.
Maryland Route 214
Maryland Route 214 is a state highway in Maryland that runs east–west from Washington, D.C. into Anne Arundel County, serving as a major commuter route through Prince George’s County.
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D.
Maryland Route 175
Maryland Route 175 is a state highway in central Maryland that connects the Columbia and Jessup areas to major routes serving Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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E.
Maryland Route 414
Maryland Route 414 is a state highway in Prince George's County that connects Oxon Hill and surrounding communities to major routes near the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
- 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: Maryland Route 140 Target entity description: Maryland Route 140 is a primary state highway in Maryland that connects Baltimore’s northwest suburbs, including Owings Mills, to Westminster and other communities in Carroll County.
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A.
Maryland Route 410
Maryland Route 410 is a major east–west state highway in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area of Maryland, connecting several inner suburbs in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties.
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B.
Maryland Route 145
Maryland Route 145 is a state highway in northern Baltimore County, Maryland, that serves as an east–west connector through rural and suburban communities including the Hunt Valley area.
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C.
Maryland Route 214
Maryland Route 214 is a state highway in Maryland that runs east–west from Washington, D.C. into Anne Arundel County, serving as a major commuter route through Prince George’s County.
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D.
Maryland Route 175
Maryland Route 175 is a state highway in central Maryland that connects the Columbia and Jessup areas to major routes serving Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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E.
Maryland Route 414
Maryland Route 414 is a state highway in Prince George's County that connects Oxon Hill and surrounding communities to major routes near the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maryland state highway
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Emmitsburg, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Finksburg, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Owings Mills, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Reisterstown, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Taneytown, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Westminster, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsCounty |
Baltimore County, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carroll County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 795
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maryland Route 27 NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Route 30 NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Route 91 NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Route 97 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 15 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration |
sections of divided highway
ⓘ
sections of undivided highway ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 140 ⓘ |
| highwayType | MD ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baltimore County, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carroll County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maryland State Highway Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partlyFollows | former alignment of U.S. Route 140 ⓘ |
| partOf | Maryland State Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Emmitsburg, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Finksburg, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Garrison, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Owings Mills, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Reisterstown, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Taneytown, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Westminster, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
commuter route
ⓘ
regional connector ⓘ |
| region | Central Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadClassification | primary state highway ⓘ |
| routeDirection | southeast–northwest ⓘ |
| serves | northwest suburbs of Baltimore ⓘ |
| servesCountySeat | Westminster, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| terminusA | Baltimore, Maryland area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusB | near Emmitsburg, Maryland ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local traffic
ⓘ
through traffic between Baltimore suburbs and Carroll County communities ⓘ |
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: Maryland Route 140 Description of subject: Maryland Route 140 is a primary state highway in Maryland that connects Baltimore’s northwest suburbs, including Owings Mills, to Westminster and other communities in Carroll County.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Reisterstown Road