Highway 17 (Trans-Canada Highway)
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Highway 17 (Trans-Canada Highway) is a major east–west route in northern Ontario that forms part of the main Trans-Canada Highway corridor across Canada.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6825259 — 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: Highway 17 (Trans-Canada Highway) Context triple: [Spanish, Ontario, hasTransportLink, Highway 17 (Trans-Canada Highway)]
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A.
Trans-Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway is a coast-to-coast national highway system spanning Canada, serving as a primary route for cross-country travel and commerce.
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B.
Highway 1 (Alberta)
Highway 1 (Alberta) is the Alberta segment of Canada’s primary east–west Trans-Canada Highway, connecting major cities like Calgary with neighboring provinces.
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C.
Alberta Highway 11
Alberta Highway 11, also known as the David Thompson Highway, is a major east–west route in central Alberta that connects Red Deer to the Rocky Mountains near Saskatchewan River Crossing.
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D.
Alberta Highway 16
Alberta Highway 16, also known as the Yellowhead Highway, is a major east–west transportation corridor across central Alberta that forms part of the Trans-Canada Highway system.
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E.
Highway 7
Highway 7 is a major east–west arterial route in southern Ontario that connects numerous communities across the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
- 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: Highway 17 (Trans-Canada Highway) Target entity description: Highway 17 (Trans-Canada Highway) is a major east–west route in northern Ontario that forms part of the main Trans-Canada Highway corridor across Canada.
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A.
Trans-Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway is a coast-to-coast national highway system spanning Canada, serving as a primary route for cross-country travel and commerce.
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B.
Highway 1 (Alberta)
Highway 1 (Alberta) is the Alberta segment of Canada’s primary east–west Trans-Canada Highway, connecting major cities like Calgary with neighboring provinces.
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C.
Alberta Highway 11
Alberta Highway 11, also known as the David Thompson Highway, is a major east–west route in central Alberta that connects Red Deer to the Rocky Mountains near Saskatchewan River Crossing.
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D.
Alberta Highway 16
Alberta Highway 16, also known as the Yellowhead Highway, is a major east–west transportation corridor across central Alberta that forms part of the Trans-Canada Highway system.
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E.
Highway 7
Highway 7 is a major east–west arterial route in southern Ontario that connects numerous communities across the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway
ⓘ
part of Trans-Canada Highway ⓘ |
| category |
Ontario provincial highways
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Trans-Canada Highway in Ontario ⓘ |
| connects |
Manitoba border
ⓘ
Ottawa region NERFINISHED ⓘ communities along Lake Huron ⓘ communities along Lake Superior ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| formsPartOf | main Trans-Canada Highway corridor across Canada ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Hwy 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | King's Highway 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayType | Ontario provincial highway ⓘ |
| isMajorRouteIn | Northern Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSegmentOf | national east–west highway system in Canada ⓘ |
| lanes |
four-lane sections
ⓘ
two-lane sections ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern Ontario
NERFINISHED
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Ontario ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Ontario Ministry of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Trans-Canada Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesAlong |
north shore of Lake Huron
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north shore of Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Kenora
NERFINISHED
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North Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Sault Ste. Marie NERFINISHED ⓘ Sudbury NERFINISHED ⓘ Thunder Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 17 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cross-country travel
ⓘ
intercity travel ⓘ long-distance trucking ⓘ |
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: Highway 17 (Trans-Canada Highway) Description of subject: Highway 17 (Trans-Canada Highway) is a major east–west route in northern Ontario that forms part of the main Trans-Canada Highway corridor across Canada.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
North Bay–Pembroke (via Highway 17 corridor)
this entity surface form:
Trans-Canada Highway 17
this entity surface form:
Trans-Canada Highway corridor
this entity surface form:
Highway 17 (nearby Trans-Canada Highway)