Minnesota State Highway 21
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Minnesota State Highway 21 is a state highway in Minnesota that connects several communities in the south-central part of the state, including the city of Faribault.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota State Highway 21 canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2764894 — 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: Minnesota State Highway 21 Context triple: [Rice County, Minnesota, traversedBy, Minnesota State Highway 21]
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 19
Minnesota State Highway 19 is an east–west state highway in southern Minnesota that connects several communities and major routes across the region.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 11
Minnesota State Highway 11 is an east–west state highway in northern Minnesota that runs along the Canadian border, connecting several small communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 47
Minnesota State Highway 47 is a north–south state highway in Minnesota that connects the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area with several northern communities.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 36
Minnesota State Highway 36 is an east–west state highway in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota that serves as a major commuter and commercial route between Minneapolis–Saint Paul suburbs and western Wisconsin.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 37
Minnesota State Highway 37 is a state highway in northeastern Minnesota that connects the city of Hibbing to other regional routes and communities.
- 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: Minnesota State Highway 21 Target entity description: Minnesota State Highway 21 is a state highway in Minnesota that connects several communities in the south-central part of the state, including the city of Faribault.
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 19
Minnesota State Highway 19 is an east–west state highway in southern Minnesota that connects several communities and major routes across the region.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 11
Minnesota State Highway 11 is an east–west state highway in northern Minnesota that runs along the Canadian border, connecting several small communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 47
Minnesota State Highway 47 is a north–south state highway in Minnesota that connects the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area with several northern communities.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 36
Minnesota State Highway 36 is an east–west state highway in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota that serves as a major commuter and commercial route between Minneapolis–Saint Paul suburbs and western Wisconsin.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 37
Minnesota State Highway 37 is a state highway in northeastern Minnesota that connects the city of Hibbing to other regional routes and communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
MN 21
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TH 21 ⓘ Trunk Highway 21 ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Minnesota
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Transportation in Le Sueur County, Minnesota ⓘ Transportation in Rice County, Minnesota ⓘ Transportation in Scott County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| connectsCommunity |
Faribault, Minnesota
ⓘ
other communities in south-central Minnesota ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| highwayNumber | 21 ⓘ |
| highwayType | Minnesota State Highway ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | south-central Minnesota ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Minnesota Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Faribault, Minnesota
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Le Sueur County, Minnesota ⓘ Rice County, Minnesota ⓘ Scott County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| routeDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
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: Minnesota State Highway 21 Description of subject: Minnesota State Highway 21 is a state highway in Minnesota that connects several communities in the south-central part of the state, including the city of Faribault.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.