Oregon Route 218
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Oregon Route 218 is a scenic state highway in north-central Oregon known for connecting small rural communities and providing access to the John Day Fossil Beds area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oregon Route 218 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11072778 — 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: Oregon Route 218 Context triple: [Fossil, Oregon, roadAccessVia, Oregon Route 218]
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Oregon Route 219
Oregon Route 219 is a state highway in northwestern Oregon that runs through the Willamette Valley, linking rural communities and agricultural areas to larger regional routes and cities.
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Oregon Route 217
Oregon Route 217 is a major north–south freeway in the Portland metropolitan area that connects U.S. Route 26 with Interstate 5 and serves as a key commuter and commercial corridor through the Tualatin Valley.
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C.
Oregon Route 211
Oregon Route 211 is a state highway in Oregon that connects several communities in Clackamas County, serving as a regional route southeast of the Portland metropolitan area.
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D.
Oregon Route 212
Oregon Route 212 is a state highway in Oregon that serves as an important east–west connector in the Portland metropolitan area, linking communities such as Gresham with regional routes and interstates.
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E.
Oregon Route 213
Oregon Route 213 is a state highway in Oregon that runs through the Portland metropolitan area, connecting several communities including Gresham and serving as a key north–south transportation corridor.
- 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: Oregon Route 218 Target entity description: Oregon Route 218 is a scenic state highway in north-central Oregon known for connecting small rural communities and providing access to the John Day Fossil Beds area.
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A.
Oregon Route 219
Oregon Route 219 is a state highway in northwestern Oregon that runs through the Willamette Valley, linking rural communities and agricultural areas to larger regional routes and cities.
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B.
Oregon Route 217
Oregon Route 217 is a major north–south freeway in the Portland metropolitan area that connects U.S. Route 26 with Interstate 5 and serves as a key commuter and commercial corridor through the Tualatin Valley.
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C.
Oregon Route 211
Oregon Route 211 is a state highway in Oregon that connects several communities in Clackamas County, serving as a regional route southeast of the Portland metropolitan area.
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D.
Oregon Route 212
Oregon Route 212 is a state highway in Oregon that serves as an important east–west connector in the Portland metropolitan area, linking communities such as Gresham with regional routes and interstates.
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E.
Oregon Route 213
Oregon Route 213 is a state highway in Oregon that runs through the Portland metropolitan area, connecting several communities including Gresham and serving as a key north–south transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Oregon state highway
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | OR 218 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects | small rural communities ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
Oregon Route 19
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 97 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| easternTerminus | Fossil, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDirection | west–east ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Oregon Route 19 at Fossil
ⓘ
U.S. Route 97 at Shaniko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimitType | rural two-lane highway speed limits ⓘ |
| hasTerrain |
canyon areas
ⓘ
hilly ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 218 ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
curvy alignment
ⓘ
light traffic ⓘ scenic views ⓘ |
| isLocatedIn |
Wasco County, Oregon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wheeler County, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNumberedWithin | Oregon state highway numbering system ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Oregon state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPopularWith |
motorcyclists
ⓘ
tourists ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| isScenic | true ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Oregon Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| nearbyAttraction | John Day River region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear | John Day Fossil Beds National Monument region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Wasco County, Oregon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wheeler County, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
rural connectivity
ⓘ
tourist access to John Day Fossil Beds ⓘ |
| providesAccessTo | John Day Fossil Beds area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | north-central Oregon ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| roadType | two-lane highway ⓘ |
| scenicCategory | high desert scenery ⓘ |
| serves |
Antelope, Oregon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fossil, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaniko, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Oregon ⓘ |
| trafficVolume | low ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Shaniko, Oregon 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: Oregon Route 218 Description of subject: Oregon Route 218 is a scenic state highway in north-central Oregon known for connecting small rural communities and providing access to the John Day Fossil Beds area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fossil, Oregon