SR 178
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SR 178 is a California state highway that runs east–west from Bakersfield through the Kern River Canyon and across the Mojave Desert toward Death Valley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SR 178 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8296844 — 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: SR 178 Context triple: [California State Route 178, abbreviation, SR 178]
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A.
SR 170
SR 170 is a state highway in Tennessee that serves as a regional connector route through parts of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
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B.
SR 188
SR 188 is a short California state highway that connects the city of Tecate to the U.S.–Mexico border in San Diego County.
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C.
SR 180
SR 180 is a state highway designation used for specific numbered routes within a U.S. state's road network.
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D.
SR 167
SR 167 is a state highway designation used for specific numbered routes within a U.S. state's transportation system.
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E.
SR 108
SR 108 is a California state highway that traverses the Sierra Nevada, including the high-altitude Sonora Pass, connecting the Central Valley with the eastern side of the range.
- 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: SR 178 Target entity description: SR 178 is a California state highway that runs east–west from Bakersfield through the Kern River Canyon and across the Mojave Desert toward Death Valley.
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A.
SR 170
SR 170 is a state highway in Tennessee that serves as a regional connector route through parts of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
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B.
SR 188
SR 188 is a short California state highway that connects the city of Tecate to the U.S.–Mexico border in San Diego County.
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C.
SR 180
SR 180 is a state highway designation used for specific numbered routes within a U.S. state's road network.
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D.
SR 167
SR 167 is a state highway designation used for specific numbered routes within a U.S. state's transportation system.
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E.
SR 108
SR 108 is a California state highway that traverses the Sierra Nevada, including the high-altitude Sonora Pass, connecting the Central Valley with the eastern side of the range.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | California state highway ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Mojave Desert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Joaquin Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Sierra Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
State Route 14
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State Route 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 395 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossesRiver | Kern River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| headsToward | Death Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | California State Route system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty |
Inyo County, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kern County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Caltrans
ⓘ
surface form:
California Department of Transportation
|
| namedAfter | numerical designation 178 ⓘ |
| partOf |
California Freeway and Expressway System
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State Scenic Highway System (in portions) ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Bakersfield, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kern River Canyon NERFINISHED ⓘ Mojave Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Central California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType |
highway
ⓘ
two-lane rural highway (in many segments) ⓘ urban arterial (in Bakersfield) ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 178 ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Lake Isabella, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ridgecrest, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| traverses |
Indian Wells Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kern River Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Bakersfield, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: SR 178 Description of subject: SR 178 is a California state highway that runs east–west from Bakersfield through the Kern River Canyon and across the Mojave Desert toward Death Valley.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.