Kansas Highway 15
E148817
Kansas Highway 15 is a north–south state highway in Kansas that runs through central communities including Abilene, connecting rural areas to major routes in the state.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kansas Highway 15 canonical | 5 |
| Kansas State Highway 15 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T235215 — 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: Kansas Highway 15 Context triple: [Abilene, Kansas, United States, hasHighway, Kansas Highway 15]
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A.
Missouri Route 160
Missouri Route 160 is a state highway in southern Missouri that runs east–west across multiple counties, connecting rural communities and regional routes.
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B.
U.S. Route 69
U.S. Route 69 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Texas through several central states, connecting numerous cities and regional transportation networks.
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C.
U.S. Route 68
U.S. Route 68 is a north–south United States highway running through parts of the Midwest and South, connecting communities in states such as Ohio and Kentucky.
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D.
Colorado State Highway 96
Colorado State Highway 96 is an east–west state highway in Colorado that traverses the plains and the Rocky Mountains, connecting communities such as Pueblo with rural areas and scenic byways.
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E.
U.S. Route 34
U.S. Route 34 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running from Colorado through the Midwest to Illinois, serving as an important regional transportation 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: Kansas Highway 15 Target entity description: Kansas Highway 15 is a north–south state highway in Kansas that runs through central communities including Abilene, connecting rural areas to major routes in the state.
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A.
Missouri Route 160
Missouri Route 160 is a state highway in southern Missouri that runs east–west across multiple counties, connecting rural communities and regional routes.
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B.
U.S. Route 69
U.S. Route 69 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Texas through several central states, connecting numerous cities and regional transportation networks.
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C.
U.S. Route 68
U.S. Route 68 is a north–south United States highway running through parts of the Midwest and South, connecting communities in states such as Ohio and Kentucky.
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D.
Colorado State Highway 96
Colorado State Highway 96 is an east–west state highway in Colorado that traverses the plains and the Rocky Mountains, connecting communities such as Pueblo with rural areas and scenic byways.
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E.
U.S. Route 34
U.S. Route 34 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running from Colorado through the Midwest to Illinois, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | K-15 ⓘ |
| connects |
major routes in Kansas
ⓘ
rural areas of Kansas ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasDirectionA | South ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | North ⓘ |
| hasRouteDesignation | K-15 ⓘ |
| highwayType | Kansas state highway ⓘ |
| isNumberedWithin | Kansas state highway numbering system ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Kansas
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas
|
| locatedIn | central communities of Kansas ⓘ |
| locationRegion | central Kansas ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Kansas Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| partOf | Kansas state highway system ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Abilene, Kansas
ⓘ
linked to:
Abilene, Kansas, United States
|
| roadClassification | state route ⓘ |
| roadFunction |
regional connector
ⓘ
rural access route ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 15 ⓘ |
| serves | rural communities in Kansas ⓘ |
| state | Kansas ⓘ |
| transportNetworkRole | links rural areas to state highway network ⓘ |
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: Kansas Highway 15 Description of subject: Kansas Highway 15 is a north–south state highway in Kansas that runs through central communities including Abilene, connecting rural areas to major routes in the state.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kansas Highway 15