U.S. Route 23
E345020
U.S. Route 23 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Florida to Michigan, serving as a key regional transportation artery through several eastern and midwestern states.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 23 canonical | 7 |
| U.S. Route 23 in Ohio | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T509813 — 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: U.S. Route 23 Context triple: [Flint, Michigan, transportationCorridor, U.S. Route 23]
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A.
U.S. Route 250
U.S. Route 250 is a U.S. highway running generally northeast–southwest through several states in the eastern United States, connecting rural areas, small towns, and regional cities.
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B.
U.S. Route 27
U.S. Route 27 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Florida to Michigan, passing through several southeastern and midwestern states.
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C.
U.S. Route 54
U.S. Route 54 is a major northeast–southwest U.S. highway that runs from El Paso, Texas, to Griggsville, Illinois, passing through several states in the central United States.
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D.
U.S. Route 29
U.S. Route 29 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Florida to Virginia, connecting numerous cities across the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.
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E.
U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
- 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: U.S. Route 23 Target entity description: U.S. Route 23 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Florida to Michigan, serving as a key regional transportation artery through several eastern and midwestern states.
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A.
U.S. Route 250
U.S. Route 250 is a U.S. highway running generally northeast–southwest through several states in the eastern United States, connecting rural areas, small towns, and regional cities.
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B.
U.S. Route 27
U.S. Route 27 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Florida to Michigan, passing through several southeastern and midwestern states.
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C.
U.S. Route 54
U.S. Route 54 is a major northeast–southwest U.S. highway that runs from El Paso, Texas, to Griggsville, Illinois, passing through several states in the central United States.
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D.
U.S. Route 29
U.S. Route 29 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Florida to Virginia, connecting numerous cities across the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.
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E.
U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway
ⓘ
numbered highway in the United States ⓘ |
| category |
U.S. Highways in Florida
ⓘ
U.S. Highways in Georgia ⓘ U.S. Highways in Kentucky ⓘ U.S. Highways in Michigan ⓘ U.S. Highways in North Carolina ⓘ U.S. Highways in Ohio ⓘ U.S. Highways in Tennessee ⓘ U.S. Highways in Virginia ⓘ United States Numbered Highways ⓘ
linked to:
United States Numbered Highway System
|
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| designation | corridor of the Appalachian Development Highway System in some segments ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| established | 1920s ⓘ |
| followsAlong |
Appalachian region in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky
ⓘ
Atlantic coastal plain in Georgia and Florida ⓘ Lake Huron shoreline in Michigan ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Huron shoreline
Scioto River valley in Ohio ⓘ
linked to:
Scioto River Valley region
|
| function | major regional transportation artery ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 23 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
connects Florida to Michigan
ⓘ
provides access to Appalachian coalfields ⓘ serves as a major freight and passenger corridor ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Interstate 26
ⓘ
Interstate 475 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 75 ⓘ Interstate 96 ⓘ U.S. Route 1 ⓘ U.S. Route 119 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 223 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 35 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 441 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 58 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Alpena, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Alpena
Ann Arbor, Michigan ⓘ
linked to:
Ann Arbor
Asheville, North Carolina ⓘ Ashland, Kentucky ⓘ Atlanta, Georgia ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta
Brunswick, Georgia ⓘ Cheboygan, Michigan ⓘ
linked to:
Cheboygan
Chillicothe, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Columbus, Ohio ⓘ Delaware, Ohio ⓘ
linked to:
Delaware, Ohio, United States
Findlay, Ohio ⓘ Flint, Michigan ⓘ Franklin, North Carolina ⓘ Gainesville, Georgia ⓘ Jacksonville, Florida ⓘ Johnson City, Tennessee ⓘ
linked to:
Johnson City
Kingsport, Tennessee ⓘ Pikeville, Kentucky ⓘ
linked to:
Pikeville, Kentucky, United States
Portsmouth, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Standish, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Toledo, Ohio ⓘ
linked to:
Toledo
Waycross, Georgia ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Appalachian region
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Southeastern United States ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| stateTraversed |
Florida
ⓘ
Georgia ⓘ Kentucky ⓘ Michigan ⓘ North Carolina ⓘ Ohio ⓘ Tennessee ⓘ Virginia ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Mackinaw City, Michigan ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | Jacksonville, Florida ⓘ |
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: U.S. Route 23 Description of subject: U.S. Route 23 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Florida to Michigan, serving as a key regional transportation artery through several eastern and midwestern states.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.