Indiana State Road 249
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Indiana State Road 249 is a short state highway in northwest Indiana that connects the city of Portage to industrial and port facilities along Lake Michigan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Indiana State Road 249 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8574633 — 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: Indiana State Road 249 Context triple: [Portage, Indiana, highwayAccess, Indiana State Road 249]
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A.
Indiana State Road 240
Indiana State Road 240 is a short state highway in central Indiana that connects the city of Greencastle to nearby major routes and communities.
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B.
Indiana State Road 49
Indiana State Road 49 is a north–south state highway in northwestern Indiana that connects communities such as Valparaiso to major routes and regional destinations near Lake Michigan.
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C.
Indiana State Road 149
Indiana State Road 149 is a north–south state highway in northwest Indiana that connects several communities in Porter County and provides access to industrial and residential areas near Lake Michigan.
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D.
Indiana State Road 227
Indiana State Road 227 is a north–south state highway in eastern Indiana that connects the city of Richmond with several nearby rural communities and regional routes.
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E.
Indiana State Road 48
Indiana State Road 48 is an east–west state highway in southern Indiana that connects several communities, including those in Monroe County, across a largely rural landscape.
- 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: Indiana State Road 249 Target entity description: Indiana State Road 249 is a short state highway in northwest Indiana that connects the city of Portage to industrial and port facilities along Lake Michigan.
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A.
Indiana State Road 240
Indiana State Road 240 is a short state highway in central Indiana that connects the city of Greencastle to nearby major routes and communities.
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B.
Indiana State Road 49
Indiana State Road 49 is a north–south state highway in northwestern Indiana that connects communities such as Valparaiso to major routes and regional destinations near Lake Michigan.
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C.
Indiana State Road 149
Indiana State Road 149 is a north–south state highway in northwest Indiana that connects several communities in Porter County and provides access to industrial and residential areas near Lake Michigan.
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D.
Indiana State Road 227
Indiana State Road 227 is a north–south state highway in eastern Indiana that connects the city of Richmond with several nearby rural communities and regional routes.
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E.
Indiana State Road 48
Indiana State Road 48 is an east–west state highway in southern Indiana that connects several communities, including those in Monroe County, across a largely rural landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road in Indiana
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SR 249 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 94
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Port of Indiana–Burns Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ industrial facilities along Lake Michigan ⓘ local roads in Portage, Indiana ⓘ port facilities along Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 94
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Indiana State Road system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty | Porter County, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Northwest Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Burns Harbor, Indiana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Indiana Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| northernTerminus |
Lake Michigan shoreline
ⓘ
Port of Indiana–Burns Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
transportation infrastructure of Porter County, Indiana
ⓘ
transportation network of Northwest Indiana ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Portage, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | connector to industrial and port facilities ⓘ |
| regionType | urban–industrial corridor ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 249 ⓘ |
| serves |
Port of Indiana–Burns Harbor complex
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
industrial areas near Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| southernTerminus | Interchange with Interstate 94 ⓘ |
| state | Indiana ⓘ |
| terminusDirectionNorth | north ⓘ |
| terminusDirectionSouth | south ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to Lake Michigan port terminals
ⓘ
truck traffic to port facilities ⓘ |
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: Indiana State Road 249 Description of subject: Indiana State Road 249 is a short state highway in northwest Indiana that connects the city of Portage to industrial and port facilities along Lake Michigan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.