NH 16
E480026
NH 16 is a major Indian National Highway running along the eastern coast, connecting key cities in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and neighboring states as part of the country’s primary north–south road network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NH 16 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4872056 — 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: NH 16 Context triple: [NH 44, hasJunctionWith, NH 16]
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A.
NH 19
NH 19 is a major National Highway in India that forms part of the important east–west road corridor connecting key cities across northern and eastern India.
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B.
NH 144
NH 144 is a national highway in India that serves as an important road link in the Jammu region of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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C.
NH 1 (northern section)
NH 1 (northern section) was a major segment of India’s historic National Highway 1 that connected Delhi to key northern cities such as Amritsar and the India–Pakistan border before being renumbered as part of NH 44.
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D.
National Highway 152
National Highway 152 is a major Indian roadway in the state of Haryana that connects several key towns and facilitates regional transportation and commerce.
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E.
Interstate 24
Interstate 24 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through the central United States, connecting cities in states such as Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.
- 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: NH 16 Target entity description: NH 16 is a major Indian National Highway running along the eastern coast, connecting key cities in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and neighboring states as part of the country’s primary north–south road network.
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A.
NH 19
NH 19 is a major National Highway in India that forms part of the important east–west road corridor connecting key cities across northern and eastern India.
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B.
NH 144
NH 144 is a national highway in India that serves as an important road link in the Jammu region of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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C.
NH 1 (northern section)
NH 1 (northern section) was a major segment of India’s historic National Highway 1 that connected Delhi to key northern cities such as Amritsar and the India–Pakistan border before being renumbered as part of NH 44.
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D.
National Highway 152
National Highway 152 is a major Indian roadway in the state of Haryana that connects several key towns and facilitates regional transportation and commerce.
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E.
Interstate 24
Interstate 24 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through the central United States, connecting cities in states such as Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Indian National Highway ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classification | primary north–south highway of India ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Bhubaneswar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chennai NERFINISHED ⓘ Kolkata NERFINISHED ⓘ Vijayawada NERFINISHED ⓘ Visakhapatnam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsEconomicCorridor | Golden Quadrilateral (via junctions) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsIndustrialArea | Visakhapatnam industrial region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsPort |
Chennai Port region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kolkata Port region NERFINISHED ⓘ Visakhapatnam Port NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Eastern India
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern India NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| directionA | South ⓘ |
| directionB | North ⓘ |
| formerDesignation | NH 5 ⓘ |
| formsCorridorBetween | Chennai and Kolkata ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
NH 19 (near Kolkata)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NH 48 (near Chennai) NERFINISHED ⓘ NH 53 (near Odisha) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTollPlazas | yes ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Asian Highway 45 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | National Highways Authority of India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
National Highway network of India
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North–South Corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNearWaterBody | Bay of Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughCity |
Balasore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cuttack NERFINISHED ⓘ Guntur NERFINISHED ⓘ Kharagpur NERFINISHED ⓘ Rajahmundry NERFINISHED ⓘ Srikakulam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughState |
Andhra Pradesh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Odisha NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamil Nadu NERFINISHED ⓘ West Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType |
four-lane highway (in many stretches)
ⓘ
six-lane highway (in upgraded stretches) ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 16 ⓘ |
| runsAlong | eastern coast of India ⓘ |
| terminusA | Chennai, Tamil Nadu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusB | Kolkata, West Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight movement
ⓘ
long-distance road transport ⓘ passenger travel ⓘ |
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: NH 16 Description of subject: NH 16 is a major Indian National Highway running along the eastern coast, connecting key cities in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and neighboring states as part of the country’s primary north–south road network.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.