Illinois Route 37
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Illinois Route 37 is a north–south state highway in southern Illinois that connects several communities and serves as a regional alternative to Interstate 57.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illinois Route 37 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8193067 — 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: Illinois Route 37 Context triple: [Salem, Illinois, hasTransportation, Illinois Route 37]
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A.
Illinois Route 38
Illinois Route 38 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that largely follows the historic Lincoln Highway corridor, connecting several western suburbs of Chicago and communities farther west.
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B.
Illinois Route 31
Illinois Route 31 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs along the Fox River corridor, connecting multiple communities in McHenry and Kane counties.
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C.
Illinois Route 47
Illinois Route 47 is a major north–south state highway in Illinois that runs through multiple counties, including McHenry County, and serves as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
Illinois Route 43
Illinois Route 43 is a major north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through numerous suburbs of Chicago.
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E.
Illinois Route 17
Illinois Route 17 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs across multiple counties, connecting rural communities and regional routes.
- 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: Illinois Route 37 Target entity description: Illinois Route 37 is a north–south state highway in southern Illinois that connects several communities and serves as a regional alternative to Interstate 57.
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A.
Illinois Route 38
Illinois Route 38 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that largely follows the historic Lincoln Highway corridor, connecting several western suburbs of Chicago and communities farther west.
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B.
Illinois Route 31
Illinois Route 31 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs along the Fox River corridor, connecting multiple communities in McHenry and Kane counties.
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C.
Illinois Route 47
Illinois Route 47 is a major north–south state highway in Illinois that runs through multiple counties, including McHenry County, and serves as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
Illinois Route 43
Illinois Route 43 is a major north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through numerous suburbs of Chicago.
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E.
Illinois Route 17
Illinois Route 17 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs across multiple counties, connecting rural communities and regional routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
IL 37
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IL-37 ⓘ |
| connects | several communities in southern Illinois ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Illinois Route 13
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 14 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 146 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 148 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 15 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 154 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 34 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 57 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 50 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Illinois State Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPublicRoad | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| maintainedBy | Illinois Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Interstate 57 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | transportation network of Southern Illinois ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Alma, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Benton, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Bonnie, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Farina, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Goreville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Ina, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnston City, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Kankakee Township, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Kell, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Marion, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Vernon, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Salem, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Watson, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ West Frankfort, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNumber | 37 ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| servesAs | regional alternative to Interstate 57 ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| transportationMode | motor vehicle traffic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local access between communities
ⓘ
regional travel ⓘ |
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: Illinois Route 37 Description of subject: Illinois Route 37 is a north–south state highway in southern Illinois that connects several communities and serves as a regional alternative to Interstate 57.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Salem, Illinois