Illinois Route 38
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Illinois Route 38 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that largely follows the historic Lincoln Highway corridor, connecting several western suburbs of Chicago and communities farther west.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illinois Route 38 canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2234480 — 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: Illinois Route 38 Context triple: [Winfield, Illinois, transportationAccess, Illinois Route 38]
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A.
Illinois Route 31
Illinois Route 31 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs along the Fox River corridor, connecting multiple communities in McHenry and Kane counties.
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B.
Illinois Route 43
Illinois Route 43 is a major north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through numerous suburbs of Chicago.
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C.
Illinois Route 58
Illinois Route 58 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through Chicago’s northwest suburbs, serving as a key east–west arterial route.
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D.
Illinois Route 47
Illinois Route 47 is a major north–south state highway in Illinois that runs through multiple counties, including McHenry County, and serves as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
Illinois Route 83
Illinois Route 83 is a major north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that connects numerous suburbs in the Chicago metropolitan area.
- 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: Illinois Route 38 Target entity description: Illinois Route 38 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that largely follows the historic Lincoln Highway corridor, connecting several western suburbs of Chicago and communities farther west.
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A.
Illinois Route 31
Illinois Route 31 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs along the Fox River corridor, connecting multiple communities in McHenry and Kane counties.
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B.
Illinois Route 43
Illinois Route 43 is a major north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through numerous suburbs of Chicago.
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C.
Illinois Route 58
Illinois Route 58 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through Chicago’s northwest suburbs, serving as a key east–west arterial route.
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D.
Illinois Route 47
Illinois Route 47 is a major north–south state highway in Illinois that runs through multiple counties, including McHenry County, and serves as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
Illinois Route 83
Illinois Route 83 is a major north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that connects numerous suburbs in the Chicago metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
IL 38
ⓘ
IL-38 ⓘ Illinois 38 ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
communities in north-central Illinois
ⓘ
western suburbs of Chicago ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| follows | historic Lincoln Highway alignment in Illinois ⓘ |
| followsCorridorOf | Lincoln Highway ⓘ |
| hasAccess | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | West ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | East ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 38 ⓘ |
| highwayType | Illinois state highway ⓘ |
| isNumberedWithin | Illinois state route numbering system ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Illinois State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois state highway system
|
| isPublicRoad | true ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo |
Lincoln Highway in Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Lincoln Highway
|
| locatedInRegion | northern Illinois ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Illinois Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| roadFunction | regional arterial route ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved highway ⓘ |
| serves | suburban communities west of Chicago ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile transportation
ⓘ
truck transportation ⓘ |
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: Illinois Route 38 Description of subject: Illinois Route 38 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that largely follows the historic Lincoln Highway corridor, connecting several western suburbs of Chicago and communities farther west.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Illinois Route 50 (Cicero Avenue)
subject linked to:
city of DeKalb, Illinois
subject linked to:
Illinois 47