US 2
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US 2 is a major east–west U.S. highway that runs across the northern United States, roughly parallel to the Canadian border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US 2 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11012782 — 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: US 2 Context triple: [U.S. Route 2, designation, US 2]
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A.
US 20
US 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the country’s longest transcontinental routes.
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B.
US 1
US 1 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, serving as a key route through numerous states and cities from Florida to Maine.
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C.
US 4
US 4 is a U.S. highway in the northeastern United States that runs east–west through New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire, connecting several regional cities and interstate routes.
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D.
US 202
US 202 is a U.S. highway running through the northeastern United States, connecting cities in states such as Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and beyond.
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E.
US 7
US 7 is a north–south U.S. highway in New England that runs from Connecticut through Massachusetts to Vermont, serving as a major regional route.
- 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: US 2 Target entity description: US 2 is a major east–west U.S. highway that runs across the northern United States, roughly parallel to the Canadian border.
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A.
US 20
US 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the country’s longest transcontinental routes.
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B.
US 1
US 1 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, serving as a key route through numerous states and cities from Florida to Maine.
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C.
US 4
US 4 is a U.S. highway in the northeastern United States that runs east–west through New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire, connecting several regional cities and interstate routes.
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D.
US 202
US 202 is a U.S. highway running through the northeastern United States, connecting cities in states such as Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and beyond.
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E.
US 7
US 7 is a north–south U.S. highway in New England that runs from Connecticut through Massachusetts to Vermont, serving as a major regional route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway
ⓘ
highway segment ⓘ highway segment ⓘ |
| approximateLengthInMiles | about 2600 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses |
Columbia River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ Missouri River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Houlton, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDiscontinuity | between St. Ignace, Michigan and Rouses Point/Vermont border area ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
eastern segment of US 2
ⓘ
western segment of US 2 ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation along its route ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
Canadian Pacific Railway (in parts of Montana and North Dakota)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S.–Canada border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Ashland, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bangor, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Bemidji, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Burlington, Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ Duluth, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Everett, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Forks, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Havre, Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ Ironwood, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalispell, Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ Lancaster, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Minot, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Montpelier, Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandpoint, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Spokane, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Ignace, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Williston, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roughlyParallelTo | Canadian border ⓘ |
| runsAcross | northern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsFrom |
Everett, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rouses Point, New York area (near Vermont border) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsTo |
Houlton, Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Ignace, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateTraversed |
Idaho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Everett, Washington 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: US 2 Description of subject: US 2 is a major east–west U.S. highway that runs across the northern United States, roughly parallel to the Canadian border.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
U.S. Route 2