U.S. Route 10 (historic)
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U.S. Route 10 (historic) was a former transcontinental U.S. Highway that once connected the Pacific Northwest to the Midwest, passing through states including Montana before being largely replaced by the Interstate system.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 10 (historic alignment) | 1 |
| U.S. Route 10 (historic) canonical | 1 |
| U.S. Route 10 (historical alignment nearby) | 1 |
| U.S. Route 10 in Washington | 1 |
| US Highway 10 (historic) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5220210 — 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 10 (historic) Context triple: [Western Montana, hasMajorHighway, U.S. Route 10 (historic)]
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U.S. Route 1 (New Hampshire)
U.S. Route 1 (New Hampshire) is a segment of the historic U.S. Route 1 highway that runs along New Hampshire’s short Atlantic coastline, connecting Massachusetts to Maine and serving coastal communities.
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B.
U.S. Route 5
U.S. Route 5 is a major north–south United States highway running through New England, primarily paralleling the Connecticut River from Connecticut to the Canadian border.
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C.
U.S. Route 1 (Massachusetts)
U.S. Route 1 (Massachusetts) is a major north–south highway running through eastern Massachusetts, serving as a key arterial route connecting Boston and surrounding communities to New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
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D.
U.S. Route 19
U.S. Route 19 is a major north–south United States highway running from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Memphis, Florida, passing through several states in the eastern U.S.
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E.
U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, primarily through New York and New Jersey, connecting numerous cities and historic communities.
- 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 10 (historic) Target entity description: U.S. Route 10 (historic) was a former transcontinental U.S. Highway that once connected the Pacific Northwest to the Midwest, passing through states including Montana before being largely replaced by the Interstate system.
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A.
U.S. Route 1 (New Hampshire)
U.S. Route 1 (New Hampshire) is a segment of the historic U.S. Route 1 highway that runs along New Hampshire’s short Atlantic coastline, connecting Massachusetts to Maine and serving coastal communities.
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B.
U.S. Route 5
U.S. Route 5 is a major north–south United States highway running through New England, primarily paralleling the Connecticut River from Connecticut to the Canadian border.
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C.
U.S. Route 1 (Massachusetts)
U.S. Route 1 (Massachusetts) is a major north–south highway running through eastern Massachusetts, serving as a key arterial route connecting Boston and surrounding communities to New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
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D.
U.S. Route 19
U.S. Route 19 is a major north–south United States highway running from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Memphis, Florida, passing through several states in the eastern U.S.
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E.
U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, primarily through New York and New Jersey, connecting numerous cities and historic communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| connectedRegion |
Midwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pacific Northwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designation | U.S. Highway 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| easternTerminus |
Bay City, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Detroit, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraOfPrimaryUse | early to mid 20th century ⓘ |
| followsCorridorOf | Northern Transcontinental Route NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorRoute | modern U.S. Route 10 (shortened alignment) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole | major east–west highway in northern United States ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Idaho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Interstate 90
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 94 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status |
decommissioned in western segments
ⓘ
partially replaced by Interstate freeways ⓘ |
| usedFor |
long-distance automobile travel
ⓘ
regional commerce ⓘ |
| westernTerminus |
Seattle, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tacoma, Washington 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 10 (historic) Description of subject: U.S. Route 10 (historic) was a former transcontinental U.S. Highway that once connected the Pacific Northwest to the Midwest, passing through states including Montana before being largely replaced by the Interstate system.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Western Montana
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 10 in Washington
this entity surface form:
US Highway 10 (historic)
subject surface form:
Dickinson, North Dakota
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 10 (historic alignment)
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 10 (historical alignment nearby)