Interstate 88
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Interstate 88 is a major east–west highway in Illinois that connects the Chicago metropolitan area with the Quad Cities and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 88 canonical | 61 |
| I-88 | 2 |
| Interstate 88 (I-80/I-88 interchange near Moline) | 1 |
| Interstate 88 (Illinois) | 1 |
| Interstate 88 (nearby) | 1 |
| Interstate 88 in Illinois | 1 |
| Interstate 88 tollway | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T265667 — 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 88 Context triple: [Oakbrook Center, near, Interstate 88]
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A.
Interstate 74
Interstate 74 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states, including a segment in North Carolina.
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B.
Interstate 94
Interstate 94 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from Montana to Michigan, serving key Midwestern cities such as Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
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C.
Interstate 8
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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D.
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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E.
Interstate 55
Interstate 55 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Louisiana to Illinois, connecting cities such as New Orleans, Memphis, and Chicago.
- 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 88 Target entity description: Interstate 88 is a major east–west highway in Illinois that connects the Chicago metropolitan area with the Quad Cities and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
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A.
Interstate 74
Interstate 74 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states, including a segment in North Carolina.
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B.
Interstate 94
Interstate 94 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from Montana to Michigan, serving key Midwestern cities such as Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
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C.
Interstate 8
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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D.
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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E.
Interstate 55
Interstate 55 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Louisiana to Illinois, connecting cities such as New Orleans, Memphis, and Chicago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 88 Description of subject: Interstate 88 is a major east–west highway in Illinois that connects the Chicago metropolitan area with the Quad Cities and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
I-355 (Veterans Memorial Tollway)
linked to: Interstate 88
linked to: Interstate 88
I-88 (Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway)
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junctionWith
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Interstate 88 (I-80/I-88 interchange near Moline)
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linked to: Interstate 88
linked to: Interstate 88
linked to: Interstate 88
subject linked to:
city of DeKalb, Illinois
linked to: Interstate 88
subject linked to:
Illinois 47
subject linked to:
Illinois Route 5 (partly)