US 15
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US 15 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from New York to South Carolina, serving as an important regional route through several Mid-Atlantic and Southern states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US 15 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6004538 — 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: US 15 Context triple: [Durham Freeway (NC 147), connectsTo, US 15]
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A.
US 151
US 151 is a United States highway running through Iowa and Wisconsin, serving as a major regional route connecting cities such as Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, and Madison.
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B.
US 1A
US 1A is a series of alternate U.S. Highway 1 routes in Maine that serve as business loops and local connectors through coastal towns and cities.
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C.
US 41
US 41 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Miami, Florida, through the Midwest to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan near the Canadian border.
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D.
Carretera Federal 15
Carretera Federal 15 is a major Mexican federal highway that runs along the Pacific coast, connecting Mexico City with key cities such as Guadalajara, Mazatlán, and Nogales near the U.S. border.
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E.
U.S. 1A
U.S. 1A is an alternate U.S. Highway in Maine that serves as a parallel or business route to U.S. Route 1 through several coastal 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: US 15 Target entity description: US 15 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from New York to South Carolina, serving as an important regional route through several Mid-Atlantic and Southern states.
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A.
US 151
US 151 is a United States highway running through Iowa and Wisconsin, serving as a major regional route connecting cities such as Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, and Madison.
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B.
US 1A
US 1A is a series of alternate U.S. Highway 1 routes in Maine that serve as business loops and local connectors through coastal towns and cities.
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C.
US 41
US 41 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Miami, Florida, through the Midwest to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan near the Canadian border.
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D.
Carretera Federal 15
Carretera Federal 15 is a major Mexican federal highway that runs along the Pacific coast, connecting Mexico City with key cities such as Guadalajara, Mazatlán, and Nogales near the U.S. border.
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E.
U.S. 1A
U.S. 1A is an alternate U.S. Highway in Maine that serves as a parallel or business route to U.S. Route 1 through several coastal communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| connects |
small towns and mid-sized cities in the Mid-Atlantic
ⓘ
small towns and mid-sized cities in the Southern United States ⓘ |
| endPoint | Corning, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsCorridor | regional route between New York and South Carolina ⓘ |
| hasCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 64
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 66 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 76 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 81 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 86 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 95 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 29 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 30 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 50 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 522 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration |
divided highway on some segments
ⓘ
two-lane rural highway on many segments ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| numberedUnder | 1926 U.S. Highway numbering plan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedInPeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
Interstate 81 in parts of Pennsylvania
ⓘ
Interstate 95 in parts of the Carolinas ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York NERFINISHED ⓘ North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsNear |
Culpeper, Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Durham, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Gettysburg, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Sumter, South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Mid-Atlantic United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startPoint | Walterboro, South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
regional freight traffic
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regional 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: US 15 Description of subject: US 15 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from New York to South Carolina, serving as an important regional route through several Mid-Atlantic and Southern states.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.