Illinois Route 120
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Illinois Route 120 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a major arterial route connecting communities such as Waukegan and McHenry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illinois Route 120 canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3443752 — 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 120 Context triple: [Waukegan, Illinois, hasTransportation, Illinois Route 120]
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A.
Illinois Route 113
Illinois Route 113 is a state highway in Illinois that runs along the Kankakee River, connecting several communities in Grundy and neighboring counties.
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B.
Illinois Route 172
Illinois Route 172 is a state highway in northwestern Illinois that serves as a local connector route, including access to the village of Tampico.
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C.
Illinois Route 173
Illinois Route 173 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs near the Wisconsin border, connecting several communities across multiple counties.
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D.
Illinois Route 131
Illinois Route 131 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that serves the Waukegan area near the Wisconsin border.
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E.
Illinois Route 17
Illinois Route 17 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs across multiple counties, connecting rural communities and regional routes.
- 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 120 Target entity description: Illinois Route 120 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a major arterial route connecting communities such as Waukegan and McHenry.
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A.
Illinois Route 113
Illinois Route 113 is a state highway in Illinois that runs along the Kankakee River, connecting several communities in Grundy and neighboring counties.
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B.
Illinois Route 172
Illinois Route 172 is a state highway in northwestern Illinois that serves as a local connector route, including access to the village of Tampico.
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C.
Illinois Route 173
Illinois Route 173 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs near the Wisconsin border, connecting several communities across multiple counties.
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D.
Illinois Route 131
Illinois Route 131 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that serves the Waukegan area near the Wisconsin border.
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E.
Illinois Route 17
Illinois Route 17 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs across multiple counties, connecting rural communities and regional routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Illinois
ⓘ
Transportation in Lake County, Illinois ⓘ Transportation in McHenry County, Illinois ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
McHenry, Illinois
ⓘ
Waukegan, Illinois ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| function | major arterial route ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple lanes on various segments ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
Illinois State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois state highway system
|
| isArterialRoad | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northeastern Illinois ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Illinois Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | regional commuter routes in northeastern Illinois ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
Lake County, Illinois
ⓘ
McHenry County, Illinois ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 120 ⓘ |
| routeType | Illinois Route ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
local access ⓘ regional connectivity ⓘ |
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 120 Description of subject: Illinois Route 120 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a major arterial route connecting communities such as Waukegan and McHenry.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.