Quebec Route 257
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Quebec Route 257 is a provincial highway in southern Quebec that runs north–south from the U.S. border through rural communities in the Estrie region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Quebec Route 257 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7502072 — 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: Quebec Route 257 Context triple: [U.S. Route 3, continuesAs, Quebec Route 257]
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A.
Quebec Route 169
Quebec Route 169 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs around Lac Saint-Jean and connects several communities in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region.
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B.
Quebec Route 173
Quebec Route 173 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs through the Chaudière-Appalaches region toward the U.S. border, serving as a key north–south transportation corridor.
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C.
Quebec Route 161
Quebec Route 161 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs through the Estrie region toward the U.S. border, serving as a key link between local communities and Maine.
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D.
Quebec Route 148
Quebec Route 148 is a provincial highway in western Quebec that runs along the north shore of the Ottawa River, connecting several communities between the Montreal region and the Outaouais.
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E.
Quebec Route 132
Quebec Route 132 is a major provincial highway in Quebec that runs along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, connecting numerous communities and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- 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: Quebec Route 257 Target entity description: Quebec Route 257 is a provincial highway in southern Quebec that runs north–south from the U.S. border through rural communities in the Estrie region.
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A.
Quebec Route 169
Quebec Route 169 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs around Lac Saint-Jean and connects several communities in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region.
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B.
Quebec Route 173
Quebec Route 173 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs through the Chaudière-Appalaches region toward the U.S. border, serving as a key north–south transportation corridor.
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C.
Quebec Route 161
Quebec Route 161 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs through the Estrie region toward the U.S. border, serving as a key link between local communities and Maine.
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D.
Quebec Route 148
Quebec Route 148 is a provincial highway in western Quebec that runs along the north shore of the Ottawa River, connecting several communities between the Montreal region and the Outaouais.
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E.
Quebec Route 132
Quebec Route 132 is a major provincial highway in Quebec that runs along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, connecting numerous communities and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
provincial highway
ⓘ
road transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| connects | rural areas to the U.S. border ⓘ |
| connectsToAtSouthernTerminus | a highway in the U.S. state of New Hampshire ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | Province of Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanes | two-lane road ⓘ |
| hasRoadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| highwayType | Quebec provincial highway ⓘ |
| languageOfSignage | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Estrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Transports Québec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Quebec provincial highway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough | rural communities ⓘ |
| passesThroughRegion | southern Quebec ⓘ |
| roadCategory | secondary highway ⓘ |
| roadOrientation | south to north ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 257 ⓘ |
| serves |
cross-border traffic
ⓘ
local residents ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | a locality in southern Quebec ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | U.S. border ⓘ |
| terminusSouthCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
motor vehicle traffic
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regional 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: Quebec Route 257 Description of subject: Quebec Route 257 is a provincial highway in southern Quebec that runs north–south from the U.S. border through rural communities in the Estrie region.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.