U.S. Route 81
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U.S. Route 81 is a major north–south United States highway running from Texas to the Canadian border, historically following much of the old Meridian Highway route.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Route 81 canonical | 12 |
| U.S. Highway 81 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T356341 — 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: U.S. Route 81 Context triple: [Interstate 29, parallels, U.S. Route 81]
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A.
U.S. Route 85
U.S. Route 85 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central and Rocky Mountain states to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
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B.
U.S. Route 75
U.S. Route 75 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the central United States, serving as a key transportation corridor for cities such as Dallas.
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C.
U.S. Route 287
U.S. Route 287 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Gulf Coast of Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states to Montana, serving as an important regional freight and travel corridor.
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D.
U.S. Highway 70
U.S. Highway 70 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Atlantic coast in North Carolina across the southern states to eastern Arizona, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
U.S. Route 281
U.S. Route 281 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from the Mexican border in Texas to the Canadian border in North Dakota, passing through several central states.
- 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: U.S. Route 81 Target entity description: U.S. Route 81 is a major north–south United States highway running from Texas to the Canadian border, historically following much of the old Meridian Highway route.
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A.
U.S. Route 85
U.S. Route 85 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central and Rocky Mountain states to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
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B.
U.S. Route 75
U.S. Route 75 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the central United States, serving as a key transportation corridor for cities such as Dallas.
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C.
U.S. Route 287
U.S. Route 287 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Gulf Coast of Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states to Montana, serving as an important regional freight and travel corridor.
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D.
U.S. Highway 70
U.S. Highway 70 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Atlantic coast in North Carolina across the southern states to eastern Arizona, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
U.S. Route 281
U.S. Route 281 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from the Mexican border in Texas to the Canadian border in North Dakota, passing through several central states.
- 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: U.S. Route 81 Description of subject: U.S. Route 81 is a major north–south United States highway running from Texas to the Canadian border, historically following much of the old Meridian Highway route.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Chickasha, Oklahoma, United States
subject linked to:
Wise County
linked to: U.S. Route 81