Iowa 38
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Iowa 38 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south, connecting several small communities and serving as a regional route between rural areas and larger highways.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa 38 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5877396 — 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: Iowa 38 Context triple: [IA 38, abbreviation, Iowa 38]
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A.
Iowa
Iowa is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its extensive agriculture, especially corn and soybean production, and its role in national politics through the Iowa caucuses.
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B.
Iowa and Illinois
Iowa and Illinois are neighboring Midwestern U.S. states whose shared eastern and western boundaries, respectively, are largely defined by the Mississippi River.
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C.
Wyoming, Iowa
Wyoming, Iowa is a small city in eastern Iowa located in Jones County, known for its rural character and local community events.
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D.
Iowa's 3rd congressional district
Iowa's 3rd congressional district is a U.S. House district in southwestern Iowa that includes the Des Moines metropolitan area and surrounding counties.
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E.
Washington, Iowa
Washington, Iowa is a small city in southeastern Iowa known for its historic downtown, agricultural surroundings, and role as a local commercial and cultural hub.
- 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: Iowa 38 Target entity description: Iowa 38 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south, connecting several small communities and serving as a regional route between rural areas and larger highways.
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A.
Iowa
Iowa is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its extensive agriculture, especially corn and soybean production, and its role in national politics through the Iowa caucuses.
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B.
Iowa and Illinois
Iowa and Illinois are neighboring Midwestern U.S. states whose shared eastern and western boundaries, respectively, are largely defined by the Mississippi River.
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C.
Wyoming, Iowa
Wyoming, Iowa is a small city in eastern Iowa located in Jones County, known for its rural character and local community events.
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D.
Iowa's 3rd congressional district
Iowa's 3rd congressional district is a U.S. House district in southwestern Iowa that includes the Des Moines metropolitan area and surrounding counties.
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E.
Washington, Iowa
Washington, Iowa is a small city in southeastern Iowa known for its historic downtown, agricultural surroundings, and role as a local commercial and cultural hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
larger highways in eastern Iowa
ⓘ
rural areas in eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAccessControl | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| hasDirection |
northbound
ⓘ
southbound ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | eastern Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| partOf | Iowa state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough | small communities in eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeType | state highway ⓘ |
| serves | rural communities in eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| servesAs | regional route ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local travel
ⓘ
regional 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: Iowa 38 Description of subject: Iowa 38 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south, connecting several small communities and serving as a regional route between rural areas and larger highways.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.