Texas State Highway 288
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Texas State Highway 288 is a major north–south roadway in Texas that connects Houston with its southern suburbs and the Gulf Coast region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Texas State Highway 288 canonical | 6 |
| Texas State Highway 288 (nearby) | 1 |
| Texas State Highway 288 (via SH 332 corridor inland) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T818275 — 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: Texas State Highway 288 Context triple: [Interstate 45, hasJunctionWith, Texas State Highway 288]
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A.
Texas State Highway 352
Texas State Highway 352 is a state highway in the Dallas–Fort Worth area that serves as a major east–west arterial route connecting Dallas with suburbs such as Mesquite.
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B.
Texas State Highway 78
Texas State Highway 78 is a state highway in Texas that runs through the Dallas–Fort Worth area, serving communities such as Sachse and connecting them to the broader regional road network.
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C.
Texas State Highway 12
Texas State Highway 12 is a state-maintained roadway in Texas that serves as a regional connector route providing access to communities in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
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D.
Texas State Highway 40
Texas State Highway 40 is a state highway in Texas that serves as a key east–west route through the College Station area, improving local and regional connectivity.
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E.
Texas State Highway 6
Texas State Highway 6 is a major north–south state highway in Texas that runs from the Gulf Coast near Galveston through the Brazos Valley and up toward the Dallas–Fort Worth region, 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: Texas State Highway 288 Target entity description: Texas State Highway 288 is a major north–south roadway in Texas that connects Houston with its southern suburbs and the Gulf Coast region.
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A.
Texas State Highway 352
Texas State Highway 352 is a state highway in the Dallas–Fort Worth area that serves as a major east–west arterial route connecting Dallas with suburbs such as Mesquite.
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B.
Texas State Highway 78
Texas State Highway 78 is a state highway in Texas that runs through the Dallas–Fort Worth area, serving communities such as Sachse and connecting them to the broader regional road network.
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C.
Texas State Highway 12
Texas State Highway 12 is a state-maintained roadway in Texas that serves as a regional connector route providing access to communities in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
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D.
Texas State Highway 40
Texas State Highway 40 is a state highway in Texas that serves as a key east–west route through the College Station area, improving local and regional connectivity.
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E.
Texas State Highway 6
Texas State Highway 6 is a major north–south state highway in Texas that runs from the Gulf Coast near Galveston through the Brazos Valley and up toward the Dallas–Fort Worth region, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
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state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SH 288 ⓘ |
| accessControl | partially controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Houston, Texas
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linked to:
Houston, Texas, United States
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| connectsRegion |
Gulf Coast region of Texas
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linked to:
Gulf Coast of Texas
Houston metropolitan area ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Houston central business district vicinity ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| function |
major commuter route
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regional connector ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple lanes in each direction on most segments ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Southeast Texas ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Texas Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
Brazoria County, Texas
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Harris County, Texas ⓘ
linked to:
Harris County
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| roadClassification | principal arterial ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 288 ⓘ |
| servesArea | southern suburbs of Houston ⓘ |
| southernTerminusVicinity | Gulf Coast region of Texas ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
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regional freight and goods movement ⓘ |
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: Texas State Highway 288 Description of subject: Texas State Highway 288 is a major north–south roadway in Texas that connects Houston with its southern suburbs and the Gulf Coast region.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Texas State Highway 288
road access via Texas State Highway 332
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connectsTo
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Texas State Highway 288 (via SH 332 corridor inland)
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linked to: Texas State Highway 288