Minnesota State Highway 42
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Minnesota State Highway 42 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs generally north–south, connecting several small communities and rural areas between the U.S. Highway 52 corridor and the Mississippi River region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota State Highway 42 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6778523 — 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: Minnesota State Highway 42 Context triple: [Olmsted County, hasMajorHighway, Minnesota State Highway 42]
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 47
Minnesota State Highway 47 is a north–south state highway in Minnesota that connects the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area with several northern communities.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 23
Minnesota State Highway 23 is a major east–west state highway in Minnesota that spans the state from the South Dakota border to the Duluth area, connecting numerous rural communities and regional centers.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 21
Minnesota State Highway 21 is a state highway in Minnesota that connects several communities in the south-central part of the state, including the city of Faribault.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 36
Minnesota State Highway 36 is an east–west state highway in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota that serves as a major commuter and commercial route between Minneapolis–Saint Paul suburbs and western Wisconsin.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 38
Minnesota State Highway 38 is a scenic north–south state highway in northern Minnesota known for winding through forested lake country between Grand Rapids and Effie.
- 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: Minnesota State Highway 42 Target entity description: Minnesota State Highway 42 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs generally north–south, connecting several small communities and rural areas between the U.S. Highway 52 corridor and the Mississippi River region.
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 47
Minnesota State Highway 47 is a north–south state highway in Minnesota that connects the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area with several northern communities.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 23
Minnesota State Highway 23 is a major east–west state highway in Minnesota that spans the state from the South Dakota border to the Duluth area, connecting numerous rural communities and regional centers.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 21
Minnesota State Highway 21 is a state highway in Minnesota that connects several communities in the south-central part of the state, including the city of Faribault.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 36
Minnesota State Highway 36 is an east–west state highway in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota that serves as a major commuter and commercial route between Minneapolis–Saint Paul suburbs and western Wisconsin.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 38
Minnesota State Highway 38 is a scenic north–south state highway in northern Minnesota known for winding through forested lake country between Grand Rapids and Effie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connectsCorridor |
Mississippi River corridor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Highway 52 corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Mississippi River region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Highway 52 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAccessControl | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | South ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | North ⓘ |
| hasLanes | two-lane highway ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 42 ⓘ |
| isPublicRoad | true ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southeastern Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Minnesota Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| partOf | Minnesota State Highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadClassification | state trunk highway ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| routeFunction | regional connector ⓘ |
| servesAreaType |
rural areas
ⓘ
small communities ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle transportation ⓘ |
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: Minnesota State Highway 42 Description of subject: Minnesota State Highway 42 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs generally north–south, connecting several small communities and rural areas between the U.S. Highway 52 corridor and the Mississippi River region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.