Maine State Route 253
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Maine State Route 253 is a short state highway in Maine that serves local traffic by connecting small communities within the state’s secondary road network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maine State Route 253 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1527127 — 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: Maine State Route 253 Context triple: [Maine State Route system, hasComponent, Maine State Route 253]
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A.
Maine State Route 252
Maine State Route 252 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector road within the state's numbered route network.
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B.
Maine State Route 251
Maine State Route 251 is a numbered state highway in Maine that serves as a minor connector route within the state’s transportation network.
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C.
Maine State Route 235
Maine State Route 235 is a state highway in Maine that connects several small communities in the mid-coast region, serving as a local connector route.
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D.
Maine State Route 250
Maine State Route 250 is a numbered state highway in Maine that serves as part of the state's secondary road network, connecting local communities and routes within the Maine State Route system.
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E.
Maine State Route 237
Maine State Route 237 is a short state highway in Maine that connects local communities in Cumberland County, serving as a minor connector route between larger regional roads.
- 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: Maine State Route 253 Target entity description: Maine State Route 253 is a short state highway in Maine that serves local traffic by connecting small communities within the state’s secondary road network.
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A.
Maine State Route 252
Maine State Route 252 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector road within the state's numbered route network.
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B.
Maine State Route 251
Maine State Route 251 is a numbered state highway in Maine that serves as a minor connector route within the state’s transportation network.
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C.
Maine State Route 235
Maine State Route 235 is a state highway in Maine that connects several small communities in the mid-coast region, serving as a local connector route.
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D.
Maine State Route 250
Maine State Route 250 is a numbered state highway in Maine that serves as part of the state's secondary road network, connecting local communities and routes within the Maine State Route system.
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E.
Maine State Route 237
Maine State Route 237 is a short state highway in Maine that connects local communities in Cumberland County, serving as a minor connector route between larger regional roads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| accessRestriction | public road ⓘ |
| connects | small communities in Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| function | serves local traffic ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
Maine State Route System
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linked to:
Maine State Route system
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| lengthCharacteristic | short state highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Maine ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| networkRole | part of Maine’s secondary road network ⓘ |
| roadType | secondary road ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 253 ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved road ⓘ |
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: Maine State Route 253 Description of subject: Maine State Route 253 is a short state highway in Maine that serves local traffic by connecting small communities within the state’s secondary road network.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.