Interstate 78 (nearby access)
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Interstate 78 is a major east–west highway in the northeastern United States that provides regional access through and around Essex County, New Jersey.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 78 (nearby) | 4 |
| Interstate 78 (nearby access) canonical | 2 |
| Interstate 78 in New Jersey | 1 |
| Interstate 78 in Springfield Township | 1 |
| Interstate 78 near Clinton, New Jersey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1230420 — 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 78 (nearby access) Context triple: [Essex County, New Jersey, majorHighways, Interstate 78 (nearby access)]
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A.
Interstate 787 (nearby)
Interstate 787 is a major limited-access highway in New York’s Capital District that runs along the Hudson River, serving Albany and nearby communities including the Troy area.
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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 990
Interstate 990 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls region of western New York, serving as a connector route through the town of Amherst.
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D.
Interstate 485
Interstate 485 is a beltway encircling the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, serving as a major freeway for regional and suburban traffic.
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E.
Interstate 81
Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running primarily through the Appalachian region from Tennessee to the Canadian border in New York, serving as a key freight and travel 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: Interstate 78 (nearby access) Target entity description: Interstate 78 is a major east–west highway in the northeastern United States that provides regional access through and around Essex County, New Jersey.
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A.
Interstate 787 (nearby)
Interstate 787 is a major limited-access highway in New York’s Capital District that runs along the Hudson River, serving Albany and nearby communities including the Troy area.
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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 990
Interstate 990 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls region of western New York, serving as a connector route through the town of Amherst.
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D.
Interstate 485
Interstate 485 is a beltway encircling the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, serving as a major freeway for regional and suburban traffic.
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E.
Interstate 81
Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running primarily through the Appalachian region from Tennessee to the Canadian border in New York, serving as a key freight and travel corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | highway access feature ⓘ |
| accesses | areas in and around Essex County, New Jersey ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasName | Interstate 78 (nearby access) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Essex County, New Jersey
ⓘ
New Jersey ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System ⓘ |
| provides | regional access ⓘ |
| refersTo | Interstate 78 ⓘ |
| relatedTo | regional transportation in Essex County, New Jersey ⓘ |
| roadType | Interstate Highway access ⓘ |
| serves | Essex County, New Jersey ⓘ |
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 78 (nearby access) Description of subject: Interstate 78 is a major east–west highway in the northeastern United States that provides regional access through and around Essex County, New Jersey.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Essex County, New Jersey, United States
linked to: Interstate 78 (nearby access)
linked to: Interstate 78 (nearby access)
linked to: Interstate 78 (nearby access)
linked to: Interstate 78 (nearby access)
linked to: Interstate 78 (nearby access)
linked to: Interstate 78 (nearby access)
Weisenberg Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
→
hasTransportationCorridor
→
Interstate 78 (nearby)
ⓘ
linked to: Interstate 78 (nearby access)