State Route 16
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State Route 16 is a primary Washington state highway that connects Tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula, including via the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| State Route 16 canonical | 9 |
| State Route 16 (predecessor) | 1 |
| State Route 16 in Gorst | 1 |
| State Route 16 in Gorst area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T989159 — 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 16 Context triple: [Tacoma, Washington, majorHighway, State Route 16]
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A.
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.
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B.
State Route 17
State Route 17 is a major north–south highway in California that connects the South Bay area with Santa Cruz, traversing the Santa Cruz Mountains and serving as a key commuter and recreational route.
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C.
State Route 17
State Route 17 is a north–south state highway in central Washington that connects several agricultural communities and provides regional access between major routes such as Interstate 90 and U.S. Route 2.
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D.
State Route 167
State Route 167 is a major north–south highway in Washington State that connects the Seattle–Tacoma metropolitan area with inland communities and freight corridors.
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E.
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.
- 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 16 Target entity description: State Route 16 is a primary Washington state highway that connects Tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula, including via the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
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A.
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.
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B.
State Route 17
State Route 17 is a north–south state highway in central Washington that connects several agricultural communities and provides regional access between major routes such as Interstate 90 and U.S. Route 2.
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C.
State Route 17
State Route 17 is a major north–south highway in California that connects the South Bay area with Santa Cruz, traversing the Santa Cruz Mountains and serving as a key commuter and recreational route.
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D.
State Route 167
State Route 167 is a major north–south highway in Washington State that connects the Seattle–Tacoma metropolitan area with inland communities and freight corridors.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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 16 Description of subject: State Route 16 is a primary Washington state highway that connects Tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula, including via the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
subject linked to:
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
linked to: State Route 16
linked to: State Route 16
subject linked to:
State Route 3
linked to: State Route 16