M-38 (Michigan highway)
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M-38 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that connects several rural communities and townships, including Adams Township.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M-38 (Michigan highway) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13244705 — 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: M-38 (Michigan highway) Context triple: [Adams Township, Michigan, hasTransportationRoute, M-38 (Michigan highway)]
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A.
M-183 (Michigan highway)
M-183 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that runs south from US Highway 2 to provide access to the Garden Peninsula and Fayette Historic State Park along Big Bay de Noc.
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B.
M-43 (Michigan highway)
M-43 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs through several counties, including Kalamazoo County, connecting rural areas with key urban centers.
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C.
M-18 (Michigan highway)
M-18 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs through the central part of the Lower Peninsula, connecting several rural communities and recreational areas.
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D.
M-33 (Michigan highway)
M-33 is a north–south state trunkline highway in northern Michigan that connects several rural communities and recreational areas in the region.
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E.
M-35 (Michigan highway)
M-35 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that runs along the shore of Green Bay and Lake Michigan, connecting communities such as Menominee with other regional destinations.
- 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: M-38 (Michigan highway) Target entity description: M-38 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that connects several rural communities and townships, including Adams Township.
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A.
M-183 (Michigan highway)
M-183 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that runs south from US Highway 2 to provide access to the Garden Peninsula and Fayette Historic State Park along Big Bay de Noc.
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B.
M-43 (Michigan highway)
M-43 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs through several counties, including Kalamazoo County, connecting rural areas with key urban centers.
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C.
M-18 (Michigan highway)
M-18 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs through the central part of the Lower Peninsula, connecting several rural communities and recreational areas.
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D.
M-33 (Michigan highway)
M-33 is a north–south state trunkline highway in northern Michigan that connects several rural communities and recreational areas in the region.
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E.
M-35 (Michigan highway)
M-35 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that runs along the shore of Green Bay and Lake Michigan, connecting communities such as Menominee with other regional destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
state highway in Michigan
ⓘ
state trunkline highway ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Michigan
ⓘ
Transportation in Houghton County, Michigan ⓘ Transportation in Ontonagon County, Michigan ⓘ |
| connects | rural communities in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
M-26 (Michigan highway)
ⓘ
US Highway 41 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 38 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | road transportation network of Michigan ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Michigan Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | Michigan state trunkline highway system ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Adams Township, Michigan
ⓘ
Houghton County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontonagon County, Michigan ⓘ |
| regionServed | western Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| routeDesignation | M-38 ⓘ |
| serves | rural townships in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| usedFor | automobile transportation ⓘ |
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: M-38 (Michigan highway) Description of subject: M-38 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that connects several rural communities and townships, including Adams Township.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.