State Route 237
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State Route 237 is a major east–west freeway in California’s South Bay region that connects the cities of Milpitas and Sunnyvale near the southern end of the San Francisco Bay.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| State Route 237 canonical | 15 |
| State Route 237 near Mountain View | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T946871 — 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 237 Context triple: [South Bay, hasMajorFreeway, State Route 237]
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A.
State Route 242
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
State Route 397
State Route 397 is a state highway in Washington that serves as an important connector through the Tri-Cities area, linking industrial zones and major transportation routes in and around Benton County.
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E.
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.
- 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 237 Target entity description: State Route 237 is a major east–west freeway in California’s South Bay region that connects the cities of Milpitas and Sunnyvale near the southern end of the San Francisco Bay.
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A.
State Route 242
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
State Route 397
State Route 397 is a state highway in Washington that serves as an important connector through the Tri-Cities area, linking industrial zones and major transportation routes in and around Benton County.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freeway
ⓘ
road transportation infrastructure ⓘ state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
CA 237
ⓘ
SR 237 ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
California freeway network
ⓘ
linked to:
California Freeway and Expressway System
|
| connectsTo |
Interstate 880
ⓘ
State Route 237 Express Lanes ⓘ U.S. Route 101 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Milpitas ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
limited access
ⓘ
median barrier ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 880
ⓘ
U.S. Route 101 ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple lanes in each direction ⓘ |
| hasTollFacility | express lanes ⓘ |
| isNumbered | 237 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
South Bay ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
California Department of Transportation
ⓘ
linked to:
Caltrans
|
| near | southern end of the San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| parallelTo | southern shoreline of San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| partOf |
California State Route system
ⓘ
linked to:
California State Route
|
| regionServed | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| roadType | controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Milpitas
ⓘ
San Jose ⓘ Santa Clara County ⓘ Sunnyvale ⓘ |
| serves |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
technology companies in Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| usedFor | regional east–west travel in South Bay ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Sunnyvale ⓘ |
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 237 Description of subject: State Route 237 is a major east–west freeway in California’s South Bay region that connects the cities of Milpitas and Sunnyvale near the southern end of the San Francisco Bay.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: State Route 237