Iowa Highway 3
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Iowa Highway 3 is an east–west state highway that spans northern Iowa, connecting numerous communities across the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa Highway 3 canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3027849 — 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: Iowa Highway 3 Context triple: [Clarion, Iowa, hasTransportation, Iowa Highway 3]
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A.
Iowa Highway 37
Iowa Highway 37 is a state highway in western Iowa that runs east–west through rural communities and farmland, connecting several small towns and local routes.
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B.
Iowa Highway 38
Iowa Highway 38 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south through several communities, connecting rural areas with larger regional routes.
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C.
Iowa Highway 5
Iowa Highway 5 is a state highway in southern Iowa that serves as a key east–west route connecting communities and facilitating regional travel.
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D.
Iowa Highway 1
Iowa Highway 1 is a primary north–south state highway in eastern Iowa that connects several communities, including the Iowa City area, and serves as an important regional route for local and through traffic.
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E.
Iowa Highway 13
Iowa Highway 13 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south, connecting several communities and serving as a regional transportation route through counties including Jones County.
- 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: Iowa Highway 3 Target entity description: Iowa Highway 3 is an east–west state highway that spans northern Iowa, connecting numerous communities across the state.
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A.
Iowa Highway 37
Iowa Highway 37 is a state highway in western Iowa that runs east–west through rural communities and farmland, connecting several small towns and local routes.
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B.
Iowa Highway 38
Iowa Highway 38 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south through several communities, connecting rural areas with larger regional routes.
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C.
Iowa Highway 5
Iowa Highway 5 is a state highway in southern Iowa that serves as a key east–west route connecting communities and facilitating regional travel.
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D.
Iowa Highway 1
Iowa Highway 1 is a primary north–south state highway in eastern Iowa that connects several communities, including the Iowa City area, and serves as an important regional route for local and through traffic.
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E.
Iowa Highway 13
Iowa Highway 13 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south, connecting several communities and serving as a regional transportation route through counties including Jones County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
IA 3
ⓘ
Iowa 3 ⓘ |
| connects | numerous communities across northern Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasDirectionA | West ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | East ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
U.S. highways in Iowa
ⓘ
other Iowa state highways ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | primarily two-lane highway ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatus | public right-of-way ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 3 ⓘ |
| highwayType |
Iowa state highway
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa state highways
|
| isNumberedWithin | Iowa primary highway numbering system ⓘ |
| isSignpostedAs |
IA-3
ⓘ
linked to:
IA 3
Iowa 3 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northern Iowa ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| openTo | public road traffic ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf |
Iowa State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa State Highway
|
| passesThrough | rural areas of northern Iowa ⓘ |
| roadCategory | primary highway ⓘ |
| roadFunction |
intra-state route
ⓘ
regional connector ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved roadway ⓘ |
| traverses | multiple Iowa counties ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile traffic
ⓘ
truck traffic ⓘ |
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: Iowa Highway 3 Description of subject: Iowa Highway 3 is an east–west state highway that spans northern Iowa, connecting numerous communities across the state.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.