U.S. Route 56
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U.S. Route 56 is an east–west United States highway running from New Mexico to Kansas, connecting the Southwest to the central Great Plains.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 56 canonical | 2 |
| U.S. Highway 56 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1547709 — 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 56 Context triple: [Dickinson County, Kansas, traversedBy, U.S. Route 56]
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A.
U.S. Route 59
U.S. Route 59 is a north–south United States highway that runs from the Mexico–U.S. border in Texas to the Canada–U.S. border in Minnesota, passing through several central states.
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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 69
U.S. Route 69 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Texas through several central states, connecting numerous cities and regional transportation networks.
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D.
U.S. Route 63
U.S. Route 63 is a major north–south United States highway running through the central part of the country, including the state of Missouri.
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E.
U.S. Route 64
U.S. Route 64 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from Arizona to the North Carolina coast, connecting numerous states and regional centers across the southern part of the country.
- 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 56 Target entity description: U.S. Route 56 is an east–west United States highway running from New Mexico to Kansas, connecting the Southwest to the central Great Plains.
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A.
U.S. Route 59
U.S. Route 59 is a north–south United States highway that runs from the Mexico–U.S. border in Texas to the Canada–U.S. border in Minnesota, passing through several central states.
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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 69
U.S. Route 69 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Texas through several central states, connecting numerous cities and regional transportation networks.
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D.
U.S. Route 63
U.S. Route 63 is a major north–south United States highway running through the central part of the country, including the state of Missouri.
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E.
U.S. Route 64
U.S. Route 64 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from Arizona to the North Carolina coast, connecting numerous states and regional centers across the southern part of the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Numbered Highway
ⓘ
east–west highway ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Baldwin City, Kansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boise City, Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ Clayton, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Council Grove, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Dodge City, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Elkhart, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Gardner, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Bend, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Herington, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Kinsley, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ McPherson, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Olathe, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Springer, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Sublette, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
American Southwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
central Great Plains ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| easternTerminus | U.S. Route 71 in Kansas City, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| establishedInYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| followsHistoricRoute | Santa Fe Trail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
U.S. 56
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
US 56 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | West ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | East ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Great Plains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
High Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
U.S. Route 281
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 283 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 412 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 54 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 59 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 77 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesNear | Santa Fe Trail historic sites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Kansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 56 ⓘ |
| system | U.S. Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusAt |
Interstate 25
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 71 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Interstate 25 in Springer, New Mexico 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: U.S. Route 56 Description of subject: U.S. Route 56 is an east–west United States highway running from New Mexico to Kansas, connecting the Southwest to the central Great Plains.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
U.S. Highway 56