U.S. Route 26
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U.S. Route 26 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that runs from the Oregon Coast through the Portland metropolitan area and across several western states to Nebraska.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Route 26 canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T841425 — 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 Context triple: [Gresham, Oregon, hasMajorHighway, U.S. Route 26]
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U.S. Route 23
U.S. Route 23 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Florida to Michigan, serving as a key regional transportation artery through several eastern and midwestern states.
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B.
U.S. Route 25
U.S. Route 25 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Brunswick, Georgia, to the Ohio–Michigan state line, connecting numerous cities across the southeastern and midwestern U.S.
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C.
U.S. Route 24
U.S. Route 24 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from Colorado through the Midwest to Michigan, connecting numerous cities and states across the central U.S.
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D.
U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
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E.
U.S. Route 250
U.S. Route 250 is a U.S. highway running generally northeast–southwest through several states in the eastern United States, connecting rural areas, small towns, and regional cities.
- 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 Target entity description: U.S. Route 26 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that runs from the Oregon Coast through the Portland metropolitan area and across several western states to Nebraska.
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A.
U.S. Route 23
U.S. Route 23 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Florida to Michigan, serving as a key regional transportation artery through several eastern and midwestern states.
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B.
U.S. Route 25
U.S. Route 25 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Brunswick, Georgia, to the Ohio–Michigan state line, connecting numerous cities across the southeastern and midwestern U.S.
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C.
U.S. Route 24
U.S. Route 24 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from Colorado through the Midwest to Michigan, connecting numerous cities and states across the central U.S.
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D.
U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
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E.
U.S. Route 250
U.S. Route 250 is a U.S. highway running generally northeast–southwest through several states in the eastern United States, connecting rural areas, small towns, and regional cities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway
ⓘ
east–west highway ⓘ |
| connects | Oregon Coast and western Nebraska ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses |
Cascade Range in Oregon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rocky Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Interstate 80 in Ogallala, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| established | 1920s ⓘ |
| follows | Columbia River corridor in parts of Oregon ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 26 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Idaho Transportation Department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nebraska Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon Department of Transportation ⓘ Wyoming Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Oregon Trail corridor in parts of its route ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Interstate 84 in Oregon
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Route 20 in Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 287 in Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 30 in Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 85 in Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 89 in Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 93 in Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Alpine, Wyoming
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bayard, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ Blackfoot, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Boise, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Bridgeport, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ Casper, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Dubois, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Gering, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ Glenrock, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Gooding, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Gresham, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Guernsey, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Idaho Falls, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackson, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ John Day, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Madras, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Mountain Home, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Ogallala, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ Portland, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Prineville, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Riverton, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandy, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottsbluff, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ Seaside, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Shoshone, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Shoshoni, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Swan Valley, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Torrington, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Vale, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Idaho
NERFINISHED
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Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Portland metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | U.S. Route 101 in 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 Description of subject: U.S. Route 26 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that runs from the Oregon Coast through the Portland metropolitan area and across several western states to Nebraska.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.