State Route 242
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State Route 242 is a short California state highway in Contra Costa County that connects Interstate 680 with State Route 4, serving as a key commuter corridor in the East Bay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| State Route 242 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T797846 — 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: State Route 242 Context triple: [Contra Costa County, hasMajorHighway, State Route 242]
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A.
State Route 240
State Route 240 is a primary state highway in south-central Washington that serves the Tri-Cities area, connecting key routes and facilitating regional traffic through Benton County.
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B.
State Route 24
State Route 24 is a major east–west freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects Oakland to suburban communities in Contra Costa County, including the cities of Orinda, Lafayette, and Walnut Creek.
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C.
State Route 28
State Route 28 is a scenic highway that runs along the northeastern shore of Lake Tahoe, connecting communities such as Incline Village in Nevada.
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D.
State Route 29
State Route 29 is a major north–south highway running through California’s Napa Valley, serving as a primary route for accessing its wine country towns and vineyards.
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E.
State Route 22
State Route 22 is a primary state highway in Alabama that runs east–west across the state, connecting communities such as Selma and 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: State Route 242 Target entity description: State Route 242 is a short California state highway in Contra Costa County that connects Interstate 680 with State Route 4, serving as a key commuter corridor in the East Bay.
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A.
State Route 240
State Route 240 is a primary state highway in south-central Washington that serves the Tri-Cities area, connecting key routes and facilitating regional traffic through Benton County.
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B.
State Route 24
State Route 24 is a major east–west freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects Oakland to suburban communities in Contra Costa County, including the cities of Orinda, Lafayette, and Walnut Creek.
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C.
State Route 28
State Route 28 is a scenic highway that runs along the northeastern shore of Lake Tahoe, connecting communities such as Incline Village in Nevada.
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D.
State Route 29
State Route 29 is a major north–south highway running through California’s Napa Valley, serving as a primary route for accessing its wine country towns and vineyards.
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E.
State Route 22
State Route 22 is a primary state highway in Alabama that runs east–west across the state, connecting communities such as Selma and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
California state highway
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
CA 242
ⓘ
SR 242 ⓘ |
| accessControl | limited-access highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 680
ⓘ
State Route 4 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Contra Costa County ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 680
ⓘ
State Route 4 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
California State Route system
ⓘ
linked to:
California state highway system
|
| isNumberedRoute | 242 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | East Bay ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
California Department of Transportation
ⓘ
linked to:
Caltrans
|
| partOf |
Bay Area transportation network
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Bay Area transit network
|
| passesThrough |
City of Concord
ⓘ
linked to:
Concord
|
| regionServed | East Bay ⓘ |
| roadType | freeway ⓘ |
| servesAs | commuter corridor ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| terminusNorth |
State Route 4 in Concord
ⓘ
linked to:
State Route 4
|
| terminusSouth |
Interstate 680 in Concord
ⓘ
linked to:
Interstate 680
|
| usedFor | commuter traffic ⓘ |
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: State Route 242 Description of subject: State Route 242 is a short California state highway in Contra Costa County that connects Interstate 680 with State Route 4, serving as a key commuter corridor in the East Bay.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.