U.S. Route 2
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U.S. Route 2 is a major east–west United States highway that runs across the northern part of the country, stretching from the Great Lakes region to northern New England.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 2 canonical | 193 |
| US Route 2 | 2 |
| Federal Highway Route 2 | 1 |
| U.S. Highway 2 | 1 |
| U.S. Route 2 (New Hampshire–Maine corridor) | 1 |
| U.S. Route 2 in Washington | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T59489 — 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 2 Context triple: [U.S. Route 2 in Maine, partOf, U.S. Route 2]
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A.
U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, primarily through New York and New Jersey, connecting numerous cities and historic communities.
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B.
U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 is a major north–south United States highway running along the East Coast from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine.
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C.
U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running east–west across the country from the Atlantic coast in Maryland to California, passing through numerous states and key cities along the way.
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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.
Interstate 84
Interstate 84 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Northeast that serves as a key regional route connecting parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
- 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 2 Target entity description: U.S. Route 2 is a major east–west United States highway that runs across the northern part of the country, stretching from the Great Lakes region to northern New England.
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A.
U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, primarily through New York and New Jersey, connecting numerous cities and historic communities.
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B.
U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 is a major north–south United States highway running along the East Coast from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine.
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C.
U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running east–west across the country from the Atlantic coast in Maryland to California, passing through numerous states and key cities along the way.
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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.
Interstate 84
Interstate 84 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Northeast that serves as a key regional route connecting parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 2 Description of subject: U.S. Route 2 is a major east–west United States highway that runs across the northern part of the country, stretching from the Great Lakes region to northern New England.
Referenced by (199)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Grand Rapids, Minnesota, United States
linked to: U.S. Route 2
subject linked to:
central Maine
subject linked to:
central Washington
subject linked to:
western Montana
subject linked to:
Randolph, New Hampshire, United States