Veterans Memorial Tollway
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The Veterans Memorial Tollway is a major north–south toll highway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the region’s suburban expressway network.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Veterans Memorial Tollway canonical | 3 |
| Veterans Memorial Toll Road | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9033120 — 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: Veterans Memorial Tollway Context triple: [Chicago expressway system, hasComponent, Veterans Memorial Tollway]
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A.
East–West Tollway
East–West Tollway is the former name of the major east–west highway in northern Illinois now designated as Interstate 88.
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B.
Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway
The Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway is a major toll highway in northern Illinois that serves as a key east–west route connecting the western suburbs of Chicago with the broader regional interstate network.
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C.
Eisenhower Expressway
The Eisenhower Expressway is a major Chicago-area freeway (Interstate 290) that runs west from downtown Chicago, serving as a key commuter and transit corridor through the city's western suburbs.
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D.
Stevenson Expressway
The Stevenson Expressway is a major Chicago-area highway that connects downtown Chicago with its southwestern suburbs and serves as a key commuter and freight route.
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E.
Jane Addams Memorial Tollway
The Jane Addams Memorial Tollway is a major tolled segment of Interstate 90 in northern Illinois, named in honor of social reformer Jane Addams and serving as a key commuter and freight corridor in the Chicago metropolitan area.
- 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: Veterans Memorial Tollway Target entity description: The Veterans Memorial Tollway is a major north–south toll highway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the region’s suburban expressway network.
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A.
East–West Tollway
East–West Tollway is the former name of the major east–west highway in northern Illinois now designated as Interstate 88.
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B.
Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway
The Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway is a major toll highway in northern Illinois that serves as a key east–west route connecting the western suburbs of Chicago with the broader regional interstate network.
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C.
Eisenhower Expressway
The Eisenhower Expressway is a major Chicago-area freeway (Interstate 290) that runs west from downtown Chicago, serving as a key commuter and transit corridor through the city's western suburbs.
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D.
Stevenson Expressway
The Stevenson Expressway is a major Chicago-area highway that connects downtown Chicago with its southwestern suburbs and serves as a key commuter and freight route.
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E.
Jane Addams Memorial Tollway
The Jane Addams Memorial Tollway is a major tolled segment of Interstate 90 in northern Illinois, named in honor of social reformer Jane Addams and serving as a key commuter and freight corridor in the Chicago metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expressway
ⓘ
limited-access highway ⓘ toll highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | I-355 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| accessControl | full access control ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 290
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 355 North–South corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 80 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 88 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formsPartOf | regional suburban expressway network ⓘ |
| hasDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| hasInterchangesWith | major arterial roads in Chicago suburbs ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | multiple lanes in each direction ⓘ |
| hasToll | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chicago metropolitan area
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Illinois State Toll Highway Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedAs | Interstate 355 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Illinois Tollway system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
suburban expressway network of Chicago ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
DuPage County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Will County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | paved ⓘ |
| routeNumber | Interstate 355 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tollCollectionMethod |
cashless tolling on many segments
ⓘ
electronic toll collection ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
regional through 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: Veterans Memorial Tollway Description of subject: The Veterans Memorial Tollway is a major north–south toll highway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the region’s suburban expressway network.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Veterans Memorial Toll Road