U.S. Route 83

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United States Numbered Highway north–south highway

U.S. Route 83 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from the Mexican border in Texas to the Canadian border in North Dakota, traversing the Great Plains and connecting numerous rural communities and regional centers.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
U.S. Route 83 canonical	3
U.S. Highway 83	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T926339 — 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 83
Context triple: [Uvalde, Texas, transportServedBy, U.S. Route 83]

A. U.S. Route 87
U.S. Route 87 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states, serving key cities and regions including parts of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
B. U.S. Route 81
U.S. Route 81 is a major north–south United States highway running from Texas to the Canadian border, historically following much of the old Meridian Highway route.
C. U.S. Route 85
U.S. Route 85 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central and Rocky Mountain states to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
D. U.S. Route 73
U.S. Route 73 is a north–south United States highway running through northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska, connecting communities including the Kansas City metropolitan area.
E. U.S. Route 82
U.S. Route 82 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern United States, linking Texas to Georgia and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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 83
Target entity description: U.S. Route 83 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from the Mexican border in Texas to the Canadian border in North Dakota, traversing the Great Plains and connecting numerous rural communities and regional centers.

A. U.S. Route 87
U.S. Route 87 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states, serving key cities and regions including parts of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
B. U.S. Route 81
U.S. Route 81 is a major north–south United States highway running from Texas to the Canadian border, historically following much of the old Meridian Highway route.
C. U.S. Route 85
U.S. Route 85 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central and Rocky Mountain states to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
D. U.S. Route 73
U.S. Route 73 is a north–south United States highway running through northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska, connecting communities including the Kansas City metropolitan area.
E. U.S. Route 82
U.S. Route 82 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern United States, linking Texas to Georgia and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Numbered Highway ⓘ north–south highway ⓘ
connects	regional centers ⓘ rural communities ⓘ
connectsTo	Manitoba Highway 83 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexican Federal Highway 101 NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
crossesRiver	Missouri River at Pierre, South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Platte River near North Platte, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ
directionA	South ⓘ
directionB	North ⓘ
established	1930s ⓘ
hasSections	divided highway segments in urban areas ⓘ
isMajorCorridorFor	north–south travel in the Great Plains ⓘ
lanesTypical	two-lane rural highway ⓘ
lengthApproximate	1880 miles ⓘ
maintainedBy	state departments of transportation ⓘ
overlapsWith	Interstate 90 near Murdo, South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 281 near Brownsville, Texas ⓘ U.S. Route 60 in Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 62 in Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 84 in Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ
passesThroughCity	Abilene, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Bismarck, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Childress, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Garden City, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Laredo, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Liberal, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ McCook, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ North Platte, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre, South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Shamrock, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Uvalde, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ
passesThroughRegion	Great Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ
passesThroughState	Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ
roadType	paved highway ⓘ
runsFrom	Brownsville, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ
runsTo	Westhope, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ
serves	agricultural regions ⓘ
terminusA	Brownsville, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ
terminusALocation	Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ
terminusB	Westhope, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ
terminusBLocation	Canadian border near Westhope, North Dakota ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Uvalde, Texas → transportServedBy → U.S. Route 83 ⓘ

North Platte, Nebraska → isOn → U.S. Route 83 ⓘ

this entity surface form: U.S. Highway 83

Garden City, Kansas → majorHighway → U.S. Route 83 ⓘ

Harlingen → hasHighway → U.S. Route 83 ⓘ

subject surface form: Harlingen, Texas

Mexican Federal Highway 85 → connectsTo → U.S. Route 83 ⓘ