Interstate 290
E96015
Interstate 290 is a highway in western New York that serves as a key connector between Buffalo’s suburbs and major regional routes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 290 canonical | 6 |
| I-290 | 1 |
| Interstate 290 in Amherst, New York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T183376 — 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: Interstate 290 Context triple: [Amherst, New York, hasTransportation, Interstate 290]
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A.
I-290
I-290 is a major Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a key commuter route connecting Chicago with its western suburbs.
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B.
Interstate 287
Interstate 287 is a beltway and bypass route around the New York City metropolitan area, running through parts of New Jersey and New York and connecting several major interstate highways.
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C.
Interstate 94
Interstate 94 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from Montana to Michigan, serving key Midwestern cities such as Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
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D.
Interstate 285
Interstate 285 is the beltway encircling Atlanta, Georgia, serving as a major bypass and connector for multiple interstate highways around the metropolitan area.
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E.
Interstate 480
Interstate 480 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a key connector between downtown Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, linking Interstate 80 and Interstate 29.
- 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: Interstate 290 Target entity description: Interstate 290 is a highway in western New York that serves as a key connector between Buffalo’s suburbs and major regional routes.
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A.
I-290
I-290 is a major Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a key commuter route connecting Chicago with its western suburbs.
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B.
Interstate 287
Interstate 287 is a beltway and bypass route around the New York City metropolitan area, running through parts of New Jersey and New York and connecting several major interstate highways.
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C.
Interstate 94
Interstate 94 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from Montana to Michigan, serving key Midwestern cities such as Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
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D.
Interstate 285
Interstate 285 is the beltway encircling Atlanta, Georgia, serving as a major bypass and connector for multiple interstate highways around the metropolitan area.
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E.
Interstate 480
Interstate 480 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a key connector between downtown Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, linking Interstate 80 and Interstate 29.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Interstate Highway
ⓘ
auxiliary Interstate Highway ⓘ beltway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Interstate 290
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
I-290
|
| accessControl | full access-controlled highway ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Youngmann Memorial Highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Interstate 190
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 90 ⓘ Interstate 990 NERFINISHED ⓘ New York State Route 240 ⓘ New York State Route 263 ⓘ New York State Route 384 ⓘ New York State Route 5 ⓘ U.S. Route 62 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| directionA | west ⓘ |
| directionB | east ⓘ |
| easternTerminus |
Interstate 90
ⓘ
surface form:
Interstate 90 in Williamsville
|
| facilitates |
regional through traffic between I-90 and I-190
ⓘ
suburban commuter traffic ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 190 in Tonawanda
ⓘ
Interstate 90 ⓘ
surface form:
Interstate 90 in Williamsville
Interstate 990 in Amherst ⓘ New York State Route 384 in Tonawanda ⓘ New York State Route 5 ⓘ
surface form:
New York State Route 5 in Amherst
U.S. Route 62 in Amherst ⓘ |
| isTollRoad | no ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | divided multi-lane freeway ⓘ |
| length | approximately 10.9 miles ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | New York State Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| numberingFollows | auxiliary route numbering conventions of Interstate 90 ⓘ |
| opened | 1960s ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Buffalo
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Buffalo, New York
|
| passesThrough |
Erie County, New York
ⓘ
Amherst, New York ⓘ
surface form:
Town of Amherst, New York
Tonawanda, New York ⓘ
surface form:
Town of Tonawanda, New York
|
| region | Western New York ⓘ |
| role | connector between Buffalo suburbs and major regional routes ⓘ |
| serves |
Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Buffalo metropolitan area
|
| servesAs | northern bypass of Buffalo ⓘ |
| speedLimit | typically 55 miles per hour ⓘ |
| spurOf | Interstate 90 ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Interstate 190 in Tonawanda ⓘ |
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: Interstate 290 Description of subject: Interstate 290 is a highway in western New York that serves as a key connector between Buffalo’s suburbs and major regional routes.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Amherst, New York
subject surface form:
Interstate 290 (New York)
this entity surface form:
I-290
this entity surface form:
Interstate 290 in Amherst, New York