Maryland Route 261
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Maryland Route 261 is a state highway in Maryland that runs along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, connecting several small waterfront communities in Calvert and Anne Arundel counties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maryland Route 261 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9180955 — 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: Maryland Route 261 Context triple: [North Beach, Maryland, stateHighwayAccess, Maryland Route 261]
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A.
Maryland Route 260
Maryland Route 260 is a state highway in Maryland that connects communities in Calvert and Anne Arundel counties, serving as a key commuter route between the Chesapeake Bay area and major regional roads.
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B.
Maryland Route 231
Maryland Route 231 is a state highway in southern Maryland that crosses the Patuxent River and connects communities such as Prince Frederick with major routes in Calvert and Charles counties.
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C.
Maryland Route 225
Maryland Route 225 is a state highway in Charles County that connects the town of Indian Head with other major routes in southern Maryland.
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D.
Maryland Route 212
Maryland Route 212 is a state highway in Maryland that serves as a key commuter route connecting communities such as Beltsville to the broader Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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E.
Maryland Route 26
Maryland Route 26 is a state highway in Maryland that runs east–west between Frederick and Baltimore, serving as a major commuter and commercial corridor through several suburban communities.
- 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: Maryland Route 261 Target entity description: Maryland Route 261 is a state highway in Maryland that runs along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, connecting several small waterfront communities in Calvert and Anne Arundel counties.
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A.
Maryland Route 260
Maryland Route 260 is a state highway in Maryland that connects communities in Calvert and Anne Arundel counties, serving as a key commuter route between the Chesapeake Bay area and major regional roads.
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B.
Maryland Route 231
Maryland Route 231 is a state highway in southern Maryland that crosses the Patuxent River and connects communities such as Prince Frederick with major routes in Calvert and Charles counties.
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C.
Maryland Route 225
Maryland Route 225 is a state highway in Charles County that connects the town of Indian Head with other major routes in southern Maryland.
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D.
Maryland Route 212
Maryland Route 212 is a state highway in Maryland that serves as a key commuter route connecting communities such as Beltsville to the broader Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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E.
Maryland Route 26
Maryland Route 26 is a state highway in Maryland that runs east–west between Frederick and Baltimore, serving as a major commuter and commercial corridor through several suburban communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Deale, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ North Beach, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Haven, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followsShoreOf | Chesapeake Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 261 ⓘ |
| highwayType | MD ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Calvert County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maryland State Highway Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Chesapeake Bay shoreline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Maryland state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Deale, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ North Beach, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Haven, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Western Shore of Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadFunction |
connector between waterfront towns
ⓘ
local access route ⓘ |
| runsAlong | western shore of the Chesapeake Bay ⓘ |
| serves |
waterfront communities in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
ⓘ
waterfront communities in Calvert County, Maryland ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved road ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Deale, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | Chesapeake Beach, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Maryland Route 261 Description of subject: Maryland Route 261 is a state highway in Maryland that runs along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, connecting several small waterfront communities in Calvert and Anne Arundel counties.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.