Ontario Highway 12
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Ontario Highway 12 is a provincial highway in south-central Ontario that connects communities along the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe and serves as a key regional transportation route.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ontario Highway 12 canonical | 10 |
| Highway 12 (Ontario) | 3 |
| Ontario Highway 12 (nearby access) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2505517 — 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: Ontario Highway 12 Context triple: [Georgina, Ontario, majorHighway, Ontario Highway 12]
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A.
Ontario Highway 19
Ontario Highway 19 is a provincial highway in southwestern Ontario that connects several communities, including Stratford, and serves as an important regional transportation route.
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B.
Ontario Highway 17
Ontario Highway 17 is a major provincial highway in Ontario, Canada, forming the primary east–west route across Northern Ontario and constituting the longest segment of the Trans-Canada Highway within the province.
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C.
Ontario Highway 11
Ontario Highway 11 is a major provincial highway in Ontario, Canada, that runs north–south through much of Northern Ontario and serves as a key route connecting numerous remote and rural communities.
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D.
Ontario Highway 58
Ontario Highway 58 is a provincial highway in Ontario, Canada, that serves the Niagara region, connecting communities such as Welland and providing access to local and regional routes.
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E.
Ontario Highway 7
Ontario Highway 7 is a major provincial highway in Ontario, Canada, running east–west across the southern part of the province and connecting numerous communities between Southwestern and Eastern Ontario.
- 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: Ontario Highway 12 Target entity description: Ontario Highway 12 is a provincial highway in south-central Ontario that connects communities along the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe and serves as a key regional transportation route.
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A.
Ontario Highway 19
Ontario Highway 19 is a provincial highway in southwestern Ontario that connects several communities, including Stratford, and serves as an important regional transportation route.
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B.
Ontario Highway 17
Ontario Highway 17 is a major provincial highway in Ontario, Canada, forming the primary east–west route across Northern Ontario and constituting the longest segment of the Trans-Canada Highway within the province.
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C.
Ontario Highway 11
Ontario Highway 11 is a major provincial highway in Ontario, Canada, that runs north–south through much of Northern Ontario and serves as a key route connecting numerous remote and rural communities.
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D.
Ontario Highway 58
Ontario Highway 58 is a provincial highway in Ontario, Canada, that serves the Niagara region, connecting communities such as Welland and providing access to local and regional routes.
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E.
Ontario Highway 7
Ontario Highway 7 is a major provincial highway in Ontario, Canada, running east–west across the southern part of the province and connecting numerous communities between Southwestern and Eastern Ontario.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ontario provincial highway
ⓘ
provincial highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Highway 12
ⓘ
Hwy 12 ⓘ
linked to:
Highway 12
|
| connectsCommunity |
Beaverton
ⓘ
Brechin ⓘ Brooklin ⓘ Coldwater ⓘ Midland ⓘ Orillia ⓘ Port McNicoll ⓘ Port Perry ⓘ Sunderland ⓘ Victoria Harbour ⓘ Waubaushene ⓘ Whitby ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Whitby ⓘ |
| followsShoreOf | Lake Simcoe ⓘ |
| hasSection |
rural highway
ⓘ
urban arterial road ⓘ |
| junctionWith |
Highway 11
ⓘ
Highway 169 ⓘ Highway 400 ⓘ Highway 401 ⓘ Highway 48 ⓘ Highway 7 ⓘ Highway 7A ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
City of Orillia
ⓘ
linked to:
Orillia
Durham Region ⓘ
linked to:
Regional Municipality of Durham
Ontario ⓘ Simcoe County ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
ⓘ
linked to:
Ministry of Transportation (Ontario)
|
| partOf | provincial highway network of Ontario ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Lake Couchiching
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Lake Simcoe ⓘ |
| region | south-central Ontario ⓘ |
| roadType | two-lane highway ⓘ |
| role |
connector of communities along the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe
ⓘ
regional transportation route ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 12 ⓘ |
| servesTrafficType |
local traffic
ⓘ
regional traffic ⓘ tourist traffic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to Georgian Bay region via connecting highways
ⓘ
access to cottage country areas near Lake Simcoe ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Midland ⓘ |
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: Ontario Highway 12 Description of subject: Ontario Highway 12 is a provincial highway in south-central Ontario that connects communities along the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe and serves as a key regional transportation route.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Midland
linked to: Ontario Highway 12
subject linked to:
downtown Orillia
linked to: Ontario Highway 12
subject linked to:
Coldwater
linked to: Ontario Highway 12
linked to: Ontario Highway 12