Washington State Route 161
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Washington State Route 161 is a state highway in Washington that connects communities in Pierce County, serving as a key north–south route between rural towns and the Tacoma area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Washington State Route 161 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11527497 — 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: Washington State Route 161 Context triple: [Eatonville, hasPrimaryAccessRoute, Washington State Route 161]
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A.
Washington State Route 167
Washington State Route 167 is a major north–south freeway and highway in western Washington that connects the cities of Tacoma and Renton, serving as a key commuter and freight corridor in the Puget Sound region.
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B.
Washington State Route 171
Washington State Route 171 is a short state highway in central Washington that connects the city of Moses Lake to nearby regional routes and communities.
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C.
Washington State Route 16
Washington State Route 16 is a major highway in western Washington that connects the Tacoma area to the Kitsap Peninsula, including via the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
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D.
Washington State Route 112
Washington State Route 112 is a scenic highway in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula that runs along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, connecting coastal communities and providing access to the northwestern tip of the continental United States.
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E.
Washington State Route 17
Washington State Route 17 is a north–south state highway in central Washington that connects several agricultural communities and links Interstate 90 near Moses Lake with U.S. Route 2 and other regional 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: Washington State Route 161 Target entity description: Washington State Route 161 is a state highway in Washington that connects communities in Pierce County, serving as a key north–south route between rural towns and the Tacoma area.
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A.
Washington State Route 167
Washington State Route 167 is a major north–south freeway and highway in western Washington that connects the cities of Tacoma and Renton, serving as a key commuter and freight corridor in the Puget Sound region.
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B.
Washington State Route 171
Washington State Route 171 is a short state highway in central Washington that connects the city of Moses Lake to nearby regional routes and communities.
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C.
Washington State Route 16
Washington State Route 16 is a major highway in western Washington that connects the Tacoma area to the Kitsap Peninsula, including via the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
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D.
Washington State Route 112
Washington State Route 112 is a scenic highway in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula that runs along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, connecting coastal communities and providing access to the northwestern tip of the continental United States.
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E.
Washington State Route 17
Washington State Route 17 is a north–south state highway in central Washington that connects several agricultural communities and links Interstate 90 near Moses Lake with U.S. Route 2 and other regional routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Washington State Route
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state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SR 161 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| accessControl | mostly at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Washington (state)
ⓘ
Transportation in Pierce County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects | rural communities in Pierce County ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Tacoma, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| function | regional connector between rural Pierce County and the Tacoma area ⓘ |
| generalDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Washington State Routes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Pierce County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Washington State Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | transportation network of Pierce County, Washington ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Eatonville, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Graham, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Puyallup, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ South Hill, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 161 ⓘ |
| serves | Pierce County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| terminusRegion |
Tacoma area
NERFINISHED
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rural southern Pierce County ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
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local access ⓘ regional travel ⓘ |
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: Washington State Route 161 Description of subject: Washington State Route 161 is a state highway in Washington that connects communities in Pierce County, serving as a key north–south route between rural towns and the Tacoma area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.