Interstate 85
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Interstate 85 is a major Interstate Highway in the southeastern United States that runs from Alabama to Virginia, serving key cities such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Durham.
All labels observed (17)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T102983 — 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: Interstate 85 Context triple: [Durham County, North Carolina, hasMajorHighway, Interstate 85]
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A.
Interstate 77
Interstate 77 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from South Carolina through several states, including West Virginia and Ohio, to northeastern Ohio near Lake Erie.
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B.
Interstate 140
Interstate 140 is a short auxiliary Interstate highway serving the Knoxville, Tennessee area, providing a connector route around the city.
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C.
Interstate 81
Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running primarily through the Appalachian region from Tennessee to the Canadian border in New York, serving as a key freight and travel corridor.
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D.
Interstate 65
Interstate 65 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the central United States, connecting the Gulf Coast to the Midwest and serving key cities such as Mobile, Birmingham, Nashville, and Indianapolis.
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E.
Interstate 20
Interstate 20 is a major east–west U.S. highway running from Texas to South Carolina, serving as a key transportation corridor across the southern United States.
- 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: Interstate 85 Target entity description: Interstate 85 is a major Interstate Highway in the southeastern United States that runs from Alabama to Virginia, serving key cities such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Durham.
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A.
Interstate 77
Interstate 77 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from South Carolina through several states, including West Virginia and Ohio, to northeastern Ohio near Lake Erie.
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B.
Interstate 140
Interstate 140 is a short auxiliary Interstate highway serving the Knoxville, Tennessee area, providing a connector route around the city.
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C.
Interstate 81
Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running primarily through the Appalachian region from Tennessee to the Canadian border in New York, serving as a key freight and travel corridor.
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D.
Interstate 65
Interstate 65 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the central United States, connecting the Gulf Coast to the Midwest and serving key cities such as Mobile, Birmingham, Nashville, and Indianapolis.
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E.
Interstate 20
Interstate 20 is a major east–west U.S. highway running from Texas to South Carolina, serving as a key transportation corridor across the southern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Interstate 85 Description of subject: Interstate 85 is a major Interstate Highway in the southeastern United States that runs from Alabama to Virginia, serving key cities such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Durham.
Referenced by (175)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Interstate 85 in Durham
this entity surface form:
Interstate 85 in Durham
this entity surface form:
Interstate 85 in South Carolina
this entity surface form:
I-85
subject surface form:
Southwestern North Carolina
this entity surface form:
Interstate 85 corridor
this entity surface form:
Interstate 85 in North Carolina
subject surface form:
Greer, South Carolina
this entity surface form:
I-85