U.S. Route 550
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U.S. Route 550 is a major north–south U.S. highway in the Four Corners region, known for its scenic and mountainous stretches through New Mexico and Colorado, including the famed “Million Dollar Highway.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 550 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1425996 — 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: U.S. Route 550 Context triple: [New Mexico State Road 4, connectsTo, U.S. Route 550]
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A.
U.S. Route 501
U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
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B.
U.S. Route 54
U.S. Route 54 is a major northeast–southwest U.S. highway that runs from El Paso, Texas, to Griggsville, Illinois, passing through several states in the central United States.
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C.
U.S. Route 50A
U.S. Route 50A is an alternate alignment of U.S. Route 50 in Nevada that serves as a major east–west highway through communities such as Fernley.
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D.
U.S. Route 52
U.S. Route 52 is a major United States highway running diagonally across the Midwest and Southeast, connecting cities from North Dakota to South Carolina.
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E.
U.S. Route 377
U.S. Route 377 is a U.S. highway running from Del Rio, Texas, to Stroud, Oklahoma, connecting numerous communities across Texas and southern Oklahoma.
- 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: U.S. Route 550 Target entity description: U.S. Route 550 is a major north–south U.S. highway in the Four Corners region, known for its scenic and mountainous stretches through New Mexico and Colorado, including the famed “Million Dollar Highway.”
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A.
U.S. Route 501
U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
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B.
U.S. Route 54
U.S. Route 54 is a major northeast–southwest U.S. highway that runs from El Paso, Texas, to Griggsville, Illinois, passing through several states in the central United States.
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C.
U.S. Route 50A
U.S. Route 50A is an alternate alignment of U.S. Route 50 in Nevada that serves as a major east–west highway through communities such as Fernley.
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D.
U.S. Route 52
U.S. Route 52 is a major United States highway running diagonally across the Midwest and Southeast, connecting cities from North Dakota to South Carolina.
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E.
U.S. Route 377
U.S. Route 377 is a U.S. highway running from Del Rio, Texas, to Stroud, Oklahoma, connecting numerous communities across Texas and southern Oklahoma.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway
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mountain highway segment ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
northwestern New Mexico
ⓘ
southwestern Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| generalDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| hasLanes |
multi-lane segments
ⓘ
two-lane segments ⓘ |
| hasSegment | Million Dollar Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| knownAs | US 550 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Million Dollar Highway segment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
scenic mountain driving ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Four Corners region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Colorado Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Mexico Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| northernTerminus | Montrose, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
high elevation passes
ⓘ
sharp curves ⓘ steep grades ⓘ |
| partOf |
U.S. Route 550
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Numbered Highway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Animas River valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Juan Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughCity |
Aztec, New Mexico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bernalillo, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Bloomfield, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Durango, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Montrose, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Ouray, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Ouray, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Silverton, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Silverton, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 550 ⓘ |
| runsThroughState |
Colorado
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| safetyCharacteristic | challenging driving conditions in winter ⓘ |
| scenicReputation | one of the most scenic drives in the United States ⓘ |
| southernTerminus | Bernalillo, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateAbbreviation |
CO
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NM ⓘ |
| terrainType |
high desert
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mountainous ⓘ |
| usedFor |
intercity travel
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tourism and sightseeing ⓘ |
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: U.S. Route 550 Description of subject: U.S. Route 550 is a major north–south U.S. highway in the Four Corners region, known for its scenic and mountainous stretches through New Mexico and Colorado, including the famed “Million Dollar Highway.”
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.