WA 99
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WA 99 is a major north–south state highway in Washington that runs through the Seattle metropolitan area, serving as an alternative to Interstate 5.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WA 99 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7438149 — 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: WA 99 Context triple: [Washington State Route 99, abbreviation, WA 99]
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A.
US 9W
US 9W is a north–south United States highway running along the west side of the Hudson River in New York and New Jersey, serving as a major regional route through numerous riverfront communities.
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B.
WA-04
WA-04 is the designation for Washington State’s 4th congressional district, a U.S. House of Representatives district located in central Washington.
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C.
W.D. Wis.
W.D. Wis. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, a federal trial court within the Seventh Circuit.
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D.
WAWA
WAWA is the station code for Wawa railway station, a train stop located in Wawa, New South Wales, Australia.
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E.
W.D. Wash.
W.D. Wash. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
- 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: WA 99 Target entity description: WA 99 is a major north–south state highway in Washington that runs through the Seattle metropolitan area, serving as an alternative to Interstate 5.
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A.
US 9W
US 9W is a north–south United States highway running along the west side of the Hudson River in New York and New Jersey, serving as a major regional route through numerous riverfront communities.
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B.
WA-04
WA-04 is the designation for Washington State’s 4th congressional district, a U.S. House of Representatives district located in central Washington.
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C.
W.D. Wis.
W.D. Wis. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, a federal trial court within the Seventh Circuit.
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D.
WAWA
WAWA is the station code for Wawa railway station, a train stop located in Wawa, New South Wales, Australia.
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E.
W.D. Wash.
W.D. Wash. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SR 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Roads in King County, Washington
ⓘ
Roads in Pierce County, Washington ⓘ Roads in Snohomish County, Washington ⓘ State highways in Washington (state) ⓘ Transportation in Seattle ⓘ |
| containsFormerStructure | Alaskan Way Viaduct NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsStructure | State Route 99 Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses | Duwamish Waterway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerDesignation | U.S. Route 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Washington State Route system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Seattle metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Washington State Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Interstate 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear | Seattle–Tacoma International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Edmonds
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Everett NERFINISHED ⓘ Federal Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Fife NERFINISHED ⓘ Lynnwood NERFINISHED ⓘ SeaTac NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ Shoreline NERFINISHED ⓘ Tukwila NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 99 ⓘ |
| servesAs | alternative to Interstate 5 ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Everett, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | Fife, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tollSection | State Route 99 Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| urban | true ⓘ |
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: WA 99 Description of subject: WA 99 is a major north–south state highway in Washington that runs through the Seattle metropolitan area, serving as an alternative to Interstate 5.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.