M-86
E744128
M-86 is a state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that serves as an east–west route connecting several small communities and regional roads.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M-86 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8571418 — 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: M-86 Context triple: [Bronson, Michigan, hasMajorHighway, M-86]
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A.
M-52
M-52 is a state highway in Michigan that runs north–south through several counties, serving as an important regional route for local and through traffic.
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B.
M-59
M-59 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Michigan that serves as a major suburban arterial route connecting communities north of Detroit.
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C.
M84
M84 is a massive lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo, notable as one of the bright members of the Virgo Cluster and a target in the Messier catalog.
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D.
M-68
M-68 is a state trunkline highway in northern Michigan that serves as an east–west route across parts of the northern Lower Peninsula.
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E.
M-45
M-45 is a major ring road in the Madrid metropolitan area that helps divert traffic around the city and connect several eastern suburbs.
- 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: M-86 Target entity description: M-86 is a state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that serves as an east–west route connecting several small communities and regional roads.
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A.
M-52
M-52 is a state highway in Michigan that runs north–south through several counties, serving as an important regional route for local and through traffic.
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B.
M-59
M-59 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Michigan that serves as a major suburban arterial route connecting communities north of Detroit.
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C.
M84
M84 is a massive lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo, notable as one of the bright members of the Virgo Cluster and a target in the Messier catalog.
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D.
M-68
M-68 is a state trunkline highway in northern Michigan that serves as an east–west route across parts of the northern Lower Peninsula.
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E.
M-45
M-45 is a major ring road in the Madrid metropolitan area that helps divert traffic around the city and connect several eastern suburbs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state trunkline highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Centreville, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colon, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sturgis, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Three Rivers, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
M-103
ⓘ
M-60 ⓘ M-66 ⓘ US Highway 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAbbreviation | M-86 ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | West ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | East ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith | US Highway 131 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanes | two-lane highway on most segments ⓘ |
| highwayType | state highway ⓘ |
| isNumberedWithin | Michigan state highway numbering system ⓘ |
| isPartOf | surface transportation network of Michigan ⓘ |
| isSignedAs | M-86 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Michigan Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf | Michigan state trunkline highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
Branch County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Joseph County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | southern Michigan ⓘ |
| roadCategory | primary state highway ⓘ |
| roadFunction | regional connector ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 86 ⓘ |
| serves | small communities in southern Michigan ⓘ |
| servesAs | connector between local roads and higher-class highways ⓘ |
| stateRouteDesignation | M-86 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile traffic
ⓘ
local travel ⓘ regional travel ⓘ truck traffic ⓘ |
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: M-86 Description of subject: M-86 is a state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that serves as an east–west route connecting several small communities and regional roads.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bronson, Michigan