Maine State Route 278
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Maine State Route 278 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 |
|---|---|
| Maine State Route 278 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1527152 — 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 278 Context triple: [Maine State Route system, hasComponent, Maine State Route 278]
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A.
Maine State Route 277
Maine State Route 277 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector within the state’s numbered route network.
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B.
Maine State Route 276
Maine State Route 276 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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C.
Maine State Route 274
Maine State Route 274 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector within the state’s numbered route network.
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D.
Maine State Route 270
Maine State Route 270 is a short state highway in northern Maine that serves as a local connector route in Aroostook County.
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E.
Maine State Route 275
Maine State Route 275 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route within the state’s numbered highway network.
- 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 278 Target entity description: Maine State Route 278 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 277
Maine State Route 277 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector within the state’s numbered route network.
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B.
Maine State Route 276
Maine State Route 276 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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C.
Maine State Route 274
Maine State Route 274 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector within the state’s numbered route network.
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D.
Maine State Route 270
Maine State Route 270 is a short state highway in northern Maine that serves as a local connector route in Aroostook County.
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E.
Maine State Route 275
Maine State Route 275 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route within the state’s numbered highway network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connects | small communities in Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasAccessControl | no ⓘ |
| highwayType | state route ⓘ |
| isNumberedHighway | yes ⓘ |
| isTollRoad | no ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
|
| locatedIn | Maine ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Maine State Route system
ⓘ
secondary road network of Maine ⓘ |
| roadFunction | local connector route ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 278 ⓘ |
| serves | local traffic ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved road ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile traffic
ⓘ
local commuting ⓘ 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: Maine State Route 278 Description of subject: Maine State Route 278 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.