Interstate 8
E152509
Interstate 8 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from San Diego, California, to the Arizona border near Yuma, serving as a key route across the southernmost part of the Southwest.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 8 canonical | 29 |
| I-8 | 1 |
| Interstate 8 in Imperial County | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T250243 — 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 8 Context triple: [Old Spanish Trail (auto trail), replacedBy, Interstate 8]
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A.
Interstate 49
Interstate 49 is a major north–south U.S. Interstate Highway running through multiple states in the central United States, including Missouri.
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B.
Interstate 15
Interstate 15 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Southern California through the Intermountain West to the Canadian border, serving key cities such as Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.
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C.
Interstate 73
Interstate 73 is a north–south U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through several states in the eastern United States, including North Carolina.
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D.
Interstate 29
Interstate 29 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the Great Plains from Missouri to North Dakota, connecting cities such as Kansas City, Sioux City, and Fargo.
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E.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a beltway freeway that partially encircles the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, providing a major route for regional traffic and access to key 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: Interstate 8 Target entity description: Interstate 8 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from San Diego, California, to the Arizona border near Yuma, serving as a key route across the southernmost part of the Southwest.
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A.
Interstate 49
Interstate 49 is a major north–south U.S. Interstate Highway running through multiple states in the central United States, including Missouri.
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B.
Interstate 15
Interstate 15 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Southern California through the Intermountain West to the Canadian border, serving key cities such as Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.
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C.
Interstate 73
Interstate 73 is a north–south U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through several states in the eastern United States, including North Carolina.
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D.
Interstate 29
Interstate 29 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the Great Plains from Missouri to North Dakota, connecting cities such as Kansas City, Sioux City, and Fargo.
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E.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a beltway freeway that partially encircles the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, providing a major route for regional traffic and access to key destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 8 Description of subject: Interstate 8 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from San Diego, California, to the Arizona border near Yuma, serving as a key route across the southernmost part of the Southwest.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
I-15
linked to: Interstate 8
linked to: Interstate 8
subject linked to:
La Mesa, California, United States