SR 172
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SR 172 is a state highway in Maine that connects the coastal communities of Blue Hill and Ellsworth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SR 172 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13230970 — 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: SR 172 Context triple: [Maine State Route 172, hasAbbreviation, SR 172]
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A.
SR 170
SR 170 is a state highway in Tennessee that serves as a regional connector route through parts of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
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B.
SR 170
SR 170 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector route through rural parts of the state.
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C.
SR 17
SR 17 is a heavily traveled and winding state highway in California that connects San Jose in Silicon Valley with the city of Santa Cruz across the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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D.
SR 117
SR 117 is a state highway in Maine that runs through several counties, connecting multiple rural towns and regional routes.
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E.
SR 178
SR 178 is a California state highway that runs east–west from Bakersfield through the Kern River Canyon and across the Mojave Desert toward Death Valley.
- 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: SR 172 Target entity description: SR 172 is a state highway in Maine that connects the coastal communities of Blue Hill and Ellsworth.
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A.
SR 170
SR 170 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector route through rural parts of the state.
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B.
SR 170
SR 170 is a state highway in Tennessee that serves as a regional connector route through parts of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
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C.
SR 17
SR 17 is a heavily traveled and winding state highway in California that connects San Jose in Silicon Valley with the city of Santa Cruz across the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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D.
SR 117
SR 117 is a state highway in Maine that runs through several counties, connecting multiple rural towns and regional routes.
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E.
SR 178
SR 178 is a California state highway that runs east–west from Bakersfield through the Kern River Canyon and across the Mojave Desert toward Death Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Maine
ⓘ
Transportation in Hancock County, Maine ⓘ |
| connects |
Blue Hill, Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ellsworth, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 172 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Hancock County, Maine ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | Maine State Route system ⓘ |
| passesThrough | rural areas of Hancock County, Maine ⓘ |
| region |
Coastal Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Midcoast Maine
|
| roadFunction | regional connector ⓘ |
| serves | coastal communities near Blue Hill Bay ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved road ⓘ |
| terminusA | Blue Hill, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusB | Ellsworth, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle traffic ⓘ |
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: SR 172 Description of subject: SR 172 is a state highway in Maine that connects the coastal communities of Blue Hill and Ellsworth.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.