U.S. Route 74
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U.S. Route 74 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern part of North Carolina into Tennessee, connecting cities such as Charlotte, Gastonia, and Wilmington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 74 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1120805 — 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: U.S. Route 74 Context triple: [Gastonia, North Carolina, hasMajorHighway, U.S. Route 74]
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A.
U.S. Route 54
U.S. Route 54 is a major northeast–southwest U.S. highway that runs from El Paso, Texas, to Griggsville, Illinois, passing through several states in the central United States.
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B.
U.S. Route 73
U.S. Route 73 is a north–south United States highway running through northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska, connecting communities including the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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C.
U.S. Route 167
U.S. Route 167 is a north–south United States highway running from Louisiana through Arkansas, serving as a regional connector between several major cities and highways.
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D.
U.S. Route 14
U.S. Route 14 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that runs from Chicago, Illinois, across the northern Midwest and Great Plains to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
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E.
U.S. Route 52
U.S. Route 52 is a major United States highway running diagonally across the Midwest and Southeast, connecting cities from North Dakota to South Carolina.
- 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: U.S. Route 74 Target entity description: U.S. Route 74 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern part of North Carolina into Tennessee, connecting cities such as Charlotte, Gastonia, and Wilmington.
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A.
U.S. Route 54
U.S. Route 54 is a major northeast–southwest U.S. highway that runs from El Paso, Texas, to Griggsville, Illinois, passing through several states in the central United States.
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B.
U.S. Route 73
U.S. Route 73 is a north–south United States highway running through northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska, connecting communities including the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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C.
U.S. Route 167
U.S. Route 167 is a north–south United States highway running from Louisiana through Arkansas, serving as a regional connector between several major cities and highways.
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D.
U.S. Route 14
U.S. Route 14 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that runs from Chicago, Illinois, across the northern Midwest and Great Plains to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
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E.
U.S. Route 52
U.S. Route 52 is a major United States highway running diagonally across the Midwest and Southeast, connecting cities from North Dakota to South Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | US 74 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
U.S. Highways in North Carolina
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U.S. Highways in Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Charlotte, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
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Gastonia, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurinburg, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Lumberton, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Monroe, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockingham, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Whiteville, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilmington, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Appalachian region near Tennessee border
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Coastal Plain of North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Piedmont region of North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designation | primary arterial highway in southern North Carolina ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| entersState | Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 40 near Wilmington, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 85 in Charlotte area ⓘ Interstate 95 near Lumberton, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTerminus |
eastern terminus in or near Wilmington, North Carolina
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western terminus in Tennessee ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
North Carolina Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
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Tennessee Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
Interstate 74 (in portions of North Carolina)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 85 (in portions between Charlotte and Gastonia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor | Appalachian Development Highway System (in segments) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Charlotte metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gastonia metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilmington metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ southern North Carolina ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 74 ⓘ |
| servesAs | major east–west transportation corridor in southern North Carolina ⓘ |
| state |
North Carolina
NERFINISHED
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Tennessee ⓘ |
| traverses |
Gaston County, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ New Hanover County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Robeson County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Union County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
intercity travel
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local commuting in metropolitan Charlotte ⓘ regional freight movement ⓘ |
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: U.S. Route 74 Description of subject: U.S. Route 74 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern part of North Carolina into Tennessee, connecting cities such as Charlotte, Gastonia, and Wilmington.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.