California State Route 86
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California State Route 86 is a major north–south highway in Southern California’s Coachella and Imperial Valleys that serves as a key corridor for regional and cross-border traffic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| California State Route 86 canonical | 3 |
| served by California State Route 86 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5937408 — 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: California State Route 86 Context triple: [Coachella, hasMajorHighway, California State Route 86]
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A.
California State Route 88
California State Route 88 is a scenic highway in California that crosses the Sierra Nevada, providing an all-weather route between the Central Valley and Nevada via Carson Pass.
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B.
California State Route 85
California State Route 85 is a major north–south freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects the cities of Mountain View and San Jose, helping to relieve congestion on U.S. Route 101 and Interstate 280.
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C.
California State Route 89
California State Route 89 is a scenic north–south highway in California that winds through the Sierra Nevada and other mountainous regions, connecting small communities, national forests, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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D.
California State Route 82
California State Route 82 is a major north–south arterial road on the San Francisco Peninsula that largely follows the historic El Camino Real through numerous Bay Area cities.
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E.
California State Route 68
California State Route 68 is a scenic state highway on California’s Central Coast that connects the Monterey Peninsula with the city of Salinas.
- 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: California State Route 86 Target entity description: California State Route 86 is a major north–south highway in Southern California’s Coachella and Imperial Valleys that serves as a key corridor for regional and cross-border traffic.
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A.
California State Route 88
California State Route 88 is a scenic highway in California that crosses the Sierra Nevada, providing an all-weather route between the Central Valley and Nevada via Carson Pass.
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B.
California State Route 85
California State Route 85 is a major north–south freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects the cities of Mountain View and San Jose, helping to relieve congestion on U.S. Route 101 and Interstate 280.
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C.
California State Route 89
California State Route 89 is a scenic north–south highway in California that winds through the Sierra Nevada and other mountainous regions, connecting small communities, national forests, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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D.
California State Route 82
California State Route 82 is a major north–south arterial road on the San Francisco Peninsula that largely follows the historic El Camino Real through numerous Bay Area cities.
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E.
California State Route 68
California State Route 68 is a scenic state highway on California’s Central Coast that connects the Monterey Peninsula with the city of Salinas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
CA 86
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SR 86 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
California State Route 111
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
California State Route 195 (former) NERFINISHED ⓘ California State Route 78 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| function |
connector between Coachella Valley and Imperial Valley
ⓘ
cross-border freight corridor ⓘ regional transportation corridor ⓘ |
| hasAccessControl | partially expressway-standard in some segments ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple-lane highway on significant segments ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 86 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| isNumberedRouteIn | California Numbered State Routes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPublicRoad | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Coachella Valley, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Imperial Valley, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Southern California ⓘ |
| locatedInValley |
Coachella Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Imperial Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Caltrans
ⓘ
surface form:
California Department of Transportation
Caltrans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parallelTo | California State Route 111 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | California State Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor |
NAFTA trade corridor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
regional north–south freight corridor ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
agricultural areas of Imperial Valley
ⓘ
desert areas of Coachella Valley ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
Imperial County, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Riverside County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Inland Southern California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S.–Mexico border region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadClassification | principal arterial ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| role |
key corridor for cross-border traffic
ⓘ
key corridor for regional traffic ⓘ |
| runsNear | Salton Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
Coachella Valley communities
ⓘ
Imperial Valley communities ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| transportMode | road ⓘ |
| usedFor |
agricultural produce transport
ⓘ
commercial trucking ⓘ commuter traffic ⓘ |
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: California State Route 86 Description of subject: California State Route 86 is a major north–south highway in Southern California’s Coachella and Imperial Valleys that serves as a key corridor for regional and cross-border traffic.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thermal, California
this entity surface form:
served by California State Route 86