Maine State Route 261
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Maine State Route 261 is a short state highway in Maine that provides local connectivity between rural communities and other primary routes in the region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maine State Route 261 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1527135 — 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 261 Context triple: [Maine State Route system, hasComponent, Maine State Route 261]
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A.
Maine State Route 260
Maine State Route 260 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a short connector route within the state's numbered road network.
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B.
Maine State Route 26
Maine State Route 26 is a major north–south state highway in western Maine that connects the Portland area to the New Hampshire border, serving towns such as Gray, Oxford, and Bethel.
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C.
Maine State Route 241
Maine State Route 241 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route within the state’s numbered highway network.
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D.
Maine State Route 201
Maine State Route 201 is a major north–south state highway in Maine that runs from Brunswick to the Canadian border, following the Kennebec River valley and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
Maine State Route 231
Maine State Route 231 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector route through Cumberland County, linking several local communities and major 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 261 Target entity description: Maine State Route 261 is a short state highway in Maine that provides local connectivity between rural communities and other primary routes in the region.
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A.
Maine State Route 260
Maine State Route 260 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a short connector route within the state's numbered road network.
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B.
Maine State Route 26
Maine State Route 26 is a major north–south state highway in western Maine that connects the Portland area to the New Hampshire border, serving towns such as Gray, Oxford, and Bethel.
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C.
Maine State Route 241
Maine State Route 241 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route within the state’s numbered highway network.
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D.
Maine State Route 201
Maine State Route 201 is a major north–south state highway in Maine that runs from Brunswick to the Canadian border, following the Kennebec River valley and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
Maine State Route 231
Maine State Route 231 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector route through Cumberland County, linking several local communities and major roads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ME 261
ⓘ
Route 261 ⓘ SR 261 ⓘ |
| accessRestriction | public road ⓘ |
| connects | rural communities in Maine ⓘ |
| connectsTo | other primary state routes in Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| function |
connects to other primary routes in the region
ⓘ
provides local connectivity between rural communities ⓘ |
| hasDirection | two-way traffic ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 261 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
|
| locatedIn | Maine ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeDivision |
State of Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
|
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Maine State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine State Route system
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| regionType | rural area ⓘ |
| roadClassification | secondary state highway ⓘ |
| signageStandard | Maine state route shield ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved ⓘ |
| transportNetworkRole | local connector route ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle 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: Maine State Route 261 Description of subject: Maine State Route 261 is a short state highway in Maine that provides local connectivity between rural communities and other primary routes in the region.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.