Michigan State Highway 196
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Michigan State Highway 196 is a state trunkline route in western Michigan that serves as a key connector between the city of Holland and other regional destinations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 196 in Michigan | 1 |
| Michigan State Highway 196 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4778048 — 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: Michigan State Highway 196 Context triple: [City of Holland, Michigan, transportation, Michigan State Highway 196]
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A.
Michigan State Highway 106
Michigan State Highway 106 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that primarily serves the Jackson County area, connecting local communities and providing regional access.
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B.
Michigan State Highway 40
Michigan State Highway 40 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that serves as a regional connector in the western part of the state, linking communities and facilitating access to larger highways and local destinations.
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C.
Michigan State Highway 35
Michigan State Highway 35 is a former state trunkline route in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that once ran along the western shore of Green Bay, connecting communities such as Menominee and Escanaba.
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D.
Michigan State Highway 60
Michigan State Highway 60 is an east–west state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that connects several communities between the Jackson and Three Rivers areas.
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E.
Michigan State Highway 50
Michigan State Highway 50 is a state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that serves as an important east–west route connecting communities in and around Jackson.
- 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: Michigan State Highway 196 Target entity description: Michigan State Highway 196 is a state trunkline route in western Michigan that serves as a key connector between the city of Holland and other regional destinations.
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A.
Michigan State Highway 106
Michigan State Highway 106 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that primarily serves the Jackson County area, connecting local communities and providing regional access.
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B.
Michigan State Highway 40
Michigan State Highway 40 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that serves as a regional connector in the western part of the state, linking communities and facilitating access to larger highways and local destinations.
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C.
Michigan State Highway 35
Michigan State Highway 35 is a former state trunkline route in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that once ran along the western shore of Green Bay, connecting communities such as Menominee and Escanaba.
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D.
Michigan State Highway 60
Michigan State Highway 60 is an east–west state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that connects several communities between the Jackson and Three Rivers areas.
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E.
Michigan State Highway 50
Michigan State Highway 50 is a state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that serves as an important east–west route connecting communities in and around Jackson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former state trunkline highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Grand Rapids, Michigan
ⓘ
Holland, Michigan ⓘ other regional destinations in western Michigan ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
M-21
ⓘ
US Highway 31 ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 196 ⓘ |
| highwayType | state trunkline highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
western Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
West Michigan
|
| maintainedBy |
Michigan State Highway Department
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan Department of Transportation
|
| partOf |
Michigan State Trunkline Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan state trunkline highway system
|
| region | Lower Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Interstate 196 ⓘ |
| roadClassification | state highway ⓘ |
| routeFunction | regional connector route ⓘ |
| serves |
Kent County, Michigan
ⓘ
Ottawa County, Michigan ⓘ city of Holland ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved road ⓘ |
| transportationMode | road transport ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile traffic
ⓘ
truck 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: Michigan State Highway 196 Description of subject: Michigan State Highway 196 is a state trunkline route in western Michigan that serves as a key connector between the city of Holland and other regional destinations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
city of Holland (part)
linked to: Michigan State Highway 196