Iowa Highway 8
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Iowa Highway 8 is a short state highway in eastern Iowa that connects the city of La Porte City with nearby communities and regional routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa Highway 8 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10704531 — 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: Iowa Highway 8 Context triple: [La Porte City, Iowa, transportation, Iowa Highway 8]
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A.
Iowa Highway 86
Iowa Highway 86 is a state highway in northwestern Iowa that runs near the Iowa–Minnesota border, serving as a regional connector route.
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B.
Iowa Highway 9
Iowa Highway 9 is an east–west state highway spanning northern Iowa, connecting numerous small towns and regional centers near the Minnesota border.
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C.
Iowa Highway 7
Iowa Highway 7 is a former state highway in northwestern Iowa that once connected the Sioux City area to the Fort Dodge region.
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D.
Iowa Highway 92
Iowa Highway 92 is an east–west state highway running across southern Iowa, connecting multiple communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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E.
Iowa Highway 78
Iowa Highway 78 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Iowa that connects several small rural communities and links with multiple primary routes.
- 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: Iowa Highway 8 Target entity description: Iowa Highway 8 is a short state highway in eastern Iowa that connects the city of La Porte City with nearby communities and regional routes.
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A.
Iowa Highway 86
Iowa Highway 86 is a state highway in northwestern Iowa that runs near the Iowa–Minnesota border, serving as a regional connector route.
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B.
Iowa Highway 9
Iowa Highway 9 is an east–west state highway spanning northern Iowa, connecting numerous small towns and regional centers near the Minnesota border.
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C.
Iowa Highway 7
Iowa Highway 7 is a former state highway in northwestern Iowa that once connected the Sioux City area to the Fort Dodge region.
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D.
Iowa Highway 92
Iowa Highway 92 is an east–west state highway running across southern Iowa, connecting multiple communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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E.
Iowa Highway 78
Iowa Highway 78 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Iowa that connects several small rural communities and links with multiple primary routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connectsCity | La Porte City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
nearby communities
ⓘ
regional routes ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 8 ⓘ |
| highwayType | Iowa state highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Iowa State Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Black Hawk County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Buchanan County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
connect La Porte City with nearby communities
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
provide access to regional routes ⓘ |
| region | eastern Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadClassification | state highway ⓘ |
| roadFunction | regional connector route ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 8 ⓘ |
| serves |
local traffic
ⓘ
regional traffic ⓘ |
| servesArea | rural eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| terminusCity | La Porte City 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: Iowa Highway 8 Description of subject: Iowa Highway 8 is a short state highway in eastern Iowa that connects the city of La Porte City with nearby communities and regional routes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.