U.S. Route 28 (historical alignment nearby / regional routes)
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U.S. Route 28 (historical alignment nearby / regional routes) was a former U.S. Highway in the Pacific Northwest that once connected parts of Washington and Oregon before being decommissioned and replaced by other routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Route 28 (historical alignment nearby / regional routes) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5022938 — 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 28 (historical alignment nearby / regional routes) Context triple: [Ephrata, Washington, servedByHighway, U.S. Route 28 (historical alignment nearby / regional routes)]
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A.
U.S. Route 26 (nearby access)
U.S. Route 26 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Pacific Northwest that connects the Portland metropolitan area with central and eastern Oregon and beyond.
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B.
New Jersey Route 28 (nearby)
New Jersey Route 28 is a state highway in central New Jersey that serves as a key east–west corridor connecting several suburban communities and commercial areas.
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C.
U.S. Route 206 (nearby)
U.S. Route 206 is a major north–south United States highway running through New Jersey and Pennsylvania, connecting numerous towns and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
Bundesstraße 28 (nearby)
Bundesstraße 28 is a major federal highway in southern Germany that connects several towns and cities across the state of Baden-Württemberg.
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E.
U.S. Route 158 in North Carolina
U.S. Route 158 in North Carolina is an east–west U.S. highway that traverses the northern part of the state, connecting the Piedmont region to the Outer Banks and serving as a major corridor for local and tourist traffic.
- 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 28 (historical alignment nearby / regional routes) Target entity description: U.S. Route 28 (historical alignment nearby / regional routes) was a former U.S. Highway in the Pacific Northwest that once connected parts of Washington and Oregon before being decommissioned and replaced by other routes.
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A.
U.S. Route 26 (nearby access)
U.S. Route 26 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Pacific Northwest that connects the Portland metropolitan area with central and eastern Oregon and beyond.
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B.
New Jersey Route 28 (nearby)
New Jersey Route 28 is a state highway in central New Jersey that serves as a key east–west corridor connecting several suburban communities and commercial areas.
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C.
U.S. Route 206 (nearby)
U.S. Route 206 is a major north–south United States highway running through New Jersey and Pennsylvania, connecting numerous towns and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
Bundesstraße 28 (nearby)
Bundesstraße 28 is a major federal highway in southern Germany that connects several towns and cities across the state of Baden-Württemberg.
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E.
U.S. Route 158 in North Carolina
U.S. Route 158 in North Carolina is an east–west U.S. highway that traverses the northern part of the state, connecting the Piedmont region to the Outer Banks and serving as a major corridor for local and tourist traffic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former U.S. Highway
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road transportation route ⓘ |
| connects |
parts of Oregon
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parts of Washington ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| highwaySystem | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| historical | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Oregon
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Pacific Northwest ⓘ Washington ⓘ |
| regionServed | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
other U.S. Routes
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state highways ⓘ |
| routeType | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
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 28 (historical alignment nearby / regional routes) Description of subject: U.S. Route 28 (historical alignment nearby / regional routes) was a former U.S. Highway in the Pacific Northwest that once connected parts of Washington and Oregon before being decommissioned and replaced by other routes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ephrata, Washington
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servedByHighway
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U.S. Route 28 (historical alignment nearby / regional routes)
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