U.S. Route 61

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United States Numbered Highway north–south highway

U.S. Route 61 is a major north–south United States highway, often called the "Blues Highway," that runs along the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Minnesota–Canada border.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
U.S. Route 61 canonical	8
Airline Drive (U.S. Route 61)	1
U.S. Route 61 via U.S. Route 36 near Hannibal, Missouri	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Numbered Highway ⓘ north–south highway ⓘ
associatedWith	American folk culture ⓘ blues music ⓘ
connects	Baton Rouge, Louisiana ⓘ Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States ⓘ surface form: Clarksdale, Mississippi Davenport, Iowa ⓘ Dubuque ⓘ surface form: Dubuque, Iowa Memphis, Tennessee, United States ⓘ surface form: Memphis, Tennessee Natchez, Mississippi ⓘ New Orleans ⓘ surface form: New Orleans, Louisiana Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States ⓘ surface form: St. Paul, Minnesota Vicksburg, Mississippi ⓘ
continuesAs	Manitoba Highway 59 ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
crosses	Mississippi River ⓘ
directionA	South ⓘ
directionB	North ⓘ
establishedIn	1926 ⓘ
follows	Mississippi River ⓘ
hasJunctionWith	Interstate 10 ⓘ Interstate 20 ⓘ Interstate 70 ⓘ Interstate 80 ⓘ Interstate 90 ⓘ
maintainedBy	state departments of transportation ⓘ
namedAfter	United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ surface form: U.S. Highway numbering system
nickname	Blues Highway ⓘ
northernTerminusLocation	near Wyoming, Minnesota ⓘ
overlapsWith	Interstate 55 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 49 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 63 NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Great River Road corridor ⓘ United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ
passesNear	Delta blues region ⓘ Mississippi River Delta region ⓘ surface form: Mississippi Delta
passesThrough	Arkansas ⓘ Iowa ⓘ Louisiana ⓘ Minnesota ⓘ Mississippi ⓘ Missouri ⓘ Tennessee ⓘ
routeNumber	61 ⓘ
southernTerminusLocation	New Orleans ⓘ surface form: New Orleans, Louisiana
terminusA	New Orleans ⓘ surface form: New Orleans, Louisiana
terminusB	Canada–United States border ⓘ surface form: Minnesota–Canada border

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 61
Description of subject: U.S. Route 61 is a major north–south United States highway, often called the "Blues Highway," that runs along the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Minnesota–Canada border.

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hannibal, Missouri, United States → servedBy → U.S. Route 61 ⓘ

subject surface form: Hannibal, Missouri

United States Numbered Highway System → includes → U.S. Route 61 ⓘ

Highway 61 Revisited → namedAfter → U.S. Route 61 ⓘ

Marion County, Missouri → hasMajorTransportation → U.S. Route 61 ⓘ

Interstate 72 → connectsTo → U.S. Route 61 ⓘ

this entity surface form: U.S. Route 61 via U.S. Route 36 near Hannibal, Missouri

Taylor, Missouri → locatedNear → U.S. Route 61 ⓘ

Taylor, Missouri → locatedOn → U.S. Route 61 ⓘ

Blue Grass, Iowa → hasTransportationLink → U.S. Route 61 ⓘ

Grandview, Iowa → roadAccessVia → U.S. Route 61 ⓘ

Shrine on Airline → namedAfter → U.S. Route 61 ⓘ

this entity surface form: Airline Drive (U.S. Route 61)