Major Deegan Expressway
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The Major Deegan Expressway is a key segment of Interstate 87 running through the Bronx in New York City, serving as a major north–south traffic artery connecting Manhattan to upstate New York.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Deegan Expressway canonical | 31 |
| Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) | 3 |
| Major Deegan Expressway (Interstate 87) | 1 |
| Major Deegan Expressway (in parts) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T37756 — 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: Major Deegan Expressway Context triple: [Harlem River, crossedBy, Major Deegan Expressway]
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A.
Henry Hudson Parkway
Henry Hudson Parkway is a scenic north–south highway along the west side of Manhattan in New York City, running beside the Hudson River and forming part of the city’s West Side Highway system.
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B.
Jerome Avenue Line
The Jerome Avenue Line is a New York City Subway route in the Bronx, primarily served by the 4 train and running along Jerome Avenue from the Yankee Stadium area toward the northern end of the borough.
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C.
Harlem River Drive
Harlem River Drive is a major north–south expressway in Manhattan, New York City, running along the Harlem River and connecting the FDR Drive with the George Washington Bridge approaches.
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D.
Generals Highway
Generals Highway is a scenic mountain road in California that winds through Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, providing access to giant sequoia groves and major park attractions.
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E.
Interstate 480
Interstate 480 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a key connector between downtown Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, linking Interstate 80 and Interstate 29.
- 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: Major Deegan Expressway Target entity description: The Major Deegan Expressway is a key segment of Interstate 87 running through the Bronx in New York City, serving as a major north–south traffic artery connecting Manhattan to upstate New York.
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A.
Henry Hudson Parkway
Henry Hudson Parkway is a scenic north–south highway along the west side of Manhattan in New York City, running beside the Hudson River and forming part of the city’s West Side Highway system.
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B.
Jerome Avenue Line
The Jerome Avenue Line is a New York City Subway route in the Bronx, primarily served by the 4 train and running along Jerome Avenue from the Yankee Stadium area toward the northern end of the borough.
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C.
Harlem River Drive
Harlem River Drive is a major north–south expressway in Manhattan, New York City, running along the Harlem River and connecting the FDR Drive with the George Washington Bridge approaches.
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D.
Generals Highway
Generals Highway is a scenic mountain road in California that winds through Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, providing access to giant sequoia groves and major park attractions.
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E.
Interstate 480
Interstate 480 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a key connector between downtown Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, linking Interstate 80 and Interstate 29.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Major Deegan Expressway Description of subject: The Major Deegan Expressway is a key segment of Interstate 87 running through the Bronx in New York City, serving as a major north–south traffic artery connecting Manhattan to upstate New York.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mott Haven neighborhood
linked to: Major Deegan Expressway
linked to: Major Deegan Expressway
linked to: Major Deegan Expressway
linked to: Major Deegan Expressway
subject linked to:
Major Deegan
subject linked to:
New York State Route 907L (unsigned)
subject linked to:
New York State Route 907L (unsigned)
subject linked to:
Bruckner Expressway (I-278)
subject linked to:
Randalls/Wards Islands and the Bronx
linked to: Major Deegan Expressway