State Route 85
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State Route 85 is a major north–south freeway in California’s Silicon Valley that connects the cities of the South Bay while bypassing central San Jose.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| State Route 85 canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T946870 — 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 85 Context triple: [South Bay, hasMajorFreeway, State Route 85]
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A.
State Route 905
State Route 905 is a California state highway in San Diego that serves as a major east–west corridor linking Interstate 5 and Interstate 805 to the U.S.–Mexico border at Otay Mesa.
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B.
State Route 180
State Route 180 is a major California state highway that runs from the agricultural city of Mendota through Fresno to Kings Canyon National Park, serving as a key east–west corridor in the central San Joaquin Valley.
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C.
State Route 58
State Route 58 is a major east–west California state highway that connects the southern San Joaquin Valley with the Mojave Desert and the Central Coast.
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D.
State Route 91
State Route 91 is a major east–west freeway in Southern California that connects the Los Angeles metropolitan area with the Inland Empire and Orange County.
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E.
State Route 168
State Route 168 is a California state highway that runs from the Fresno area into the Sierra Nevada, providing access to mountain communities and recreational areas.
- 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 85 Target entity description: State Route 85 is a major north–south freeway in California’s Silicon Valley that connects the cities of the South Bay while bypassing central San Jose.
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A.
State Route 905
State Route 905 is a California state highway in San Diego that serves as a major east–west corridor linking Interstate 5 and Interstate 805 to the U.S.–Mexico border at Otay Mesa.
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B.
State Route 180
State Route 180 is a major California state highway that runs from the agricultural city of Mendota through Fresno to Kings Canyon National Park, serving as a key east–west corridor in the central San Joaquin Valley.
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C.
State Route 58
State Route 58 is a major east–west California state highway that connects the southern San Joaquin Valley with the Mojave Desert and the Central Coast.
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D.
State Route 91
State Route 91 is a major east–west freeway in Southern California that connects the Los Angeles metropolitan area with the Inland Empire and Orange County.
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E.
State Route 168
State Route 168 is a California state highway that runs from the Fresno area into the Sierra Nevada, providing access to mountain communities and recreational areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freeway
ⓘ
limited-access highway ⓘ state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
CA 85
ⓘ
SR 85 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | West Valley Freeway ⓘ |
| bypasses |
central San Jose
ⓘ
linked to:
Downtown San Jose
|
| connects |
South Bay cities
ⓘ
linked to:
South Bay
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| function | bypass of central San Jose ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
high-occupancy vehicle lanes
ⓘ
median barrier ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple lanes in each direction ⓘ |
| hasRoadType | controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
California State Route system
ⓘ
linked to:
California state highway system
|
| interchangeWith |
Interstate 280
ⓘ
State Route 17 ⓘ State Route 237 ⓘ State Route 82 ⓘ State Route 87 ⓘ U.S. Route 101 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | San Jose metropolitan area ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
California Department of Transportation
ⓘ
linked to:
Caltrans
|
| openedAsFreeway | 1990s ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
Interstate 280
ⓘ
State Route 82 ⓘ |
| passesNear |
residential neighborhoods in Cupertino
ⓘ
residential neighborhoods in Los Gatos ⓘ residential neighborhoods in Saratoga ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Cupertino, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Cupertino
Los Gatos, California ⓘ Mountain View, California ⓘ
linked to:
Mountain View
San Jose, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Jose
Santa Clara County ⓘ Saratoga, California ⓘ Sunnyvale, California ⓘ
linked to:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
|
| purpose |
provide freeway connection between U.S. 101 in South San Jose and U.S. 101 in Mountain View
ⓘ
relieve traffic congestion on local streets ⓘ |
| regionServed |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
South Bay ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 85 ⓘ |
| speedLimit | typically 65 miles per hour ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| terminusNorth | U.S. Route 101 in Mountain View ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | U.S. Route 101 in South San Jose ⓘ |
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 85 Description of subject: State Route 85 is a major north–south freeway in California’s Silicon Valley that connects the cities of the South Bay while bypassing central San Jose.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.