Highway 17
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Highway 17 is a major Canadian highway forming part of the Trans-Canada Highway, running across northern Ontario and serving as a key route through communities such as Sault Ste. Marie.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Highway 17 canonical | 3 |
| Highway 17 (via Highway 6) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1365750 — 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: Highway 17 Context triple: [Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, transportCorridor, Highway 17]
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A.
Highway 108
Highway 108 is a scenic mountain route in California that crosses the Sierra Nevada via Sonora Pass, one of the highest paved passes in the state.
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B.
Highway 5
Highway 5 is a major Finnish roadway that runs through eastern Finland, connecting several towns and regions including the municipality of Suomussalmi.
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C.
National Highway 19
National Highway 19 is a major Indian roadway that forms part of the key east–west transport corridor connecting important cities across northern and eastern India.
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D.
National Highway 152
National Highway 152 is a major Indian roadway in the state of Haryana that connects several key towns and facilitates regional transportation and commerce.
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E.
National Highway 71
National Highway 71 is a significant roadway in India that connects key cities and facilitates regional transportation and commerce, including access to the pilgrimage center of Tirupati.
- 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: Highway 17 Target entity description: Highway 17 is a major Canadian highway forming part of the Trans-Canada Highway, running across northern Ontario and serving as a key route through communities such as Sault Ste. Marie.
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A.
Highway 108
Highway 108 is a scenic mountain route in California that crosses the Sierra Nevada via Sonora Pass, one of the highest paved passes in the state.
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B.
Highway 5
Highway 5 is a major Finnish roadway that runs through eastern Finland, connecting several towns and regions including the municipality of Suomussalmi.
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C.
National Highway 19
National Highway 19 is a major Indian roadway that forms part of the key east–west transport corridor connecting important cities across northern and eastern India.
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D.
National Highway 152
National Highway 152 is a major Indian roadway in the state of Haryana that connects several key towns and facilitates regional transportation and commerce.
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E.
National Highway 71
National Highway 71 is a significant roadway in India that connects key cities and facilitates regional transportation and commerce, including access to the pilgrimage center of Tirupati.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway
ⓘ
part of the Trans-Canada Highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Highway 11 (Ontario)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Highway 400 (Ontario) NERFINISHED ⓘ Highway 417 (Ontario) NERFINISHED ⓘ Highway 69 (Ontario) NERFINISHED ⓘ Manitoba Highway 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| crosses | St. Marys River via Sault Ste. Marie area bridges ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Ottawa, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | mostly two-lane undivided ⓘ |
| hasScenicReputation | Lake Superior shoreline ⓘ |
| hasSection | four-lane divided segments near major urban areas ⓘ |
| importance | key link in the Trans-Canada Highway system through Ontario ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Ontario ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Ontario Ministry of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Trans-Canada Highway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
national core route network of Canada ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Georgian Bay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Huron NERFINISHED ⓘ Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Dryden, Ontario
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ignace, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenora, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Marathon, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Nipigon, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ North Bay, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottawa, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Renfrew County, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Schreiber, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Sudbury, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Terrace Bay, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Thunder Bay, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Wawa, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ White River, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Eastern Ontario
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | primary east–west highway across northern Ontario ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 17 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
interprovincial travel
ⓘ
long-distance freight transport ⓘ regional access to northern Ontario communities ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Manitoba 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: Highway 17 Description of subject: Highway 17 is a major Canadian highway forming part of the Trans-Canada Highway, running across northern Ontario and serving as a key route through communities such as Sault Ste. Marie.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
this entity surface form:
Highway 17 (via Highway 6)