Interstate 290
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Interstate 290 is a highway in Massachusetts that serves as a key connector between Worcester and the surrounding regional interstate network.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 290 canonical | 19 |
| I-290 | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T949452 — 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 290 Context triple: [Worcester, Massachusetts, traversedBy, Interstate 290]
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A.
Interstate 290
Interstate 290 is a highway in western New York that serves as a key connector between Buffalo’s suburbs and major regional routes.
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B.
I-290
I-290 is a major Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a key commuter route connecting Chicago with its western suburbs.
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C.
Interstate 294
Interstate 294 is a major toll highway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway, carrying traffic around the city and connecting key regional routes.
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D.
Interstate 88
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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E.
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.
- 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 290 Target entity description: Interstate 290 is a highway in Massachusetts that serves as a key connector between Worcester and the surrounding regional interstate network.
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A.
Interstate 290
Interstate 290 is a highway in western New York that serves as a key connector between Buffalo’s suburbs and major regional routes.
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B.
I-290
I-290 is a major Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a key commuter route connecting Chicago with its western suburbs.
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C.
Interstate 294
Interstate 294 is a major toll highway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway, carrying traffic around the city and connecting key regional routes.
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D.
Interstate 88
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Interstate Highway
ⓘ
limited-access highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
I-290
ⓘ
linked to:
Interstate 290
|
| connectsTo |
Interstate 190 (Massachusetts)
ⓘ
Interstate 495 (Massachusetts) ⓘ
linked to:
Interstate 495
Interstate 90 (Massachusetts) ⓘ Massachusetts Route 12 ⓘ Massachusetts Route 122A ⓘ
linked to:
Massachusetts Route 122
Massachusetts Route 146 ⓘ Massachusetts Route 70 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | west–east ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | junction with Interstate 495 in Marlborough, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| hasJunction |
I-290/I-190 interchange in Worcester
ⓘ
I-290/I-495 interchange in Marlborough ⓘ I-290/I-90 interchange in Auburn ⓘ
linked to:
Interstate 290 in Auburn, Massachusetts
I-290/Route 146 interchange in Worcester ⓘ
linked to:
I-290/I-190 interchange in Worcester
|
| highwayType | Interstate ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | primarily four to six lanes ⓘ |
| length | approximately 20 miles ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Massachusetts Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| numberingRelation | spur of Interstate 90 ⓘ |
| opened | 1960s ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Auburn, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marlborough, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Northborough, Massachusetts ⓘ Shrewsbury, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Worcester, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
regional connector between Worcester and the Interstate network
ⓘ
urban freeway through Worcester ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 290 ⓘ |
| servesAs | bypass of local streets in Worcester ⓘ |
| servesCity | Worcester, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Central Massachusetts
ⓘ
linked to:
central Massachusetts
|
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| systemRole |
access route to Worcester from regional interstates
ⓘ
connector between Interstate 90 and Interstate 495 ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | junction with Interstate 90 in Auburn, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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 290 Description of subject: Interstate 290 is a highway in Massachusetts that serves as a key connector between Worcester and the surrounding regional interstate network.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States
subject linked to:
central Massachusetts
subject linked to:
Interstate 290
linked to: Interstate 290
subject linked to:
Auburn
linked to: Interstate 290
linked to: Interstate 290