Virginia State Route 243
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Virginia State Route 243 is a short primary state highway in Fairfax County that connects the town of Vienna to major routes in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virginia State Route 243 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T406726 — 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: Virginia State Route 243 Context triple: [Vienna, Virginia, isServedByRoad, Virginia State Route 243]
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A.
Virginia State Route 234
Virginia State Route 234 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that serves as a major north–south arterial route connecting the Manassas area with Interstate highways and surrounding communities.
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B.
Virginia State Route 28
Virginia State Route 28 is a primary north–south highway in Northern Virginia that connects communities such as Manassas to major regional routes and serves as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
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C.
Virginia State Route 123
Virginia State Route 123 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that connects communities in Fairfax County with the city of Fairfax and the Potomac River crossings toward Washington, D.C.
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D.
Maryland Route 202
Maryland Route 202 is a state highway in Maryland that serves as a major arterial road in Prince George’s County, providing access to key destinations including FedExField and surrounding communities.
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E.
Kentucky Route 84
Kentucky Route 84 is a state highway in Kentucky that runs through central parts of the state, connecting communities such as Hodgenville and serving as a regional connector route.
- 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: Virginia State Route 243 Target entity description: Virginia State Route 243 is a short primary state highway in Fairfax County that connects the town of Vienna to major routes in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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A.
Virginia State Route 234
Virginia State Route 234 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that serves as a major north–south arterial route connecting the Manassas area with Interstate highways and surrounding communities.
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B.
Virginia State Route 28
Virginia State Route 28 is a primary north–south highway in Northern Virginia that connects communities such as Manassas to major regional routes and serves as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
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C.
Virginia State Route 123
Virginia State Route 123 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that connects communities in Fairfax County with the city of Fairfax and the Potomac River crossings toward Washington, D.C.
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D.
Maryland Route 202
Maryland Route 202 is a state highway in Maryland that serves as a major arterial road in Prince George’s County, providing access to key destinations including FedExField and surrounding communities.
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E.
Kentucky Route 84
Kentucky Route 84 is a state highway in Kentucky that runs through central parts of the state, connecting communities such as Hodgenville and serving as a regional connector route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
primary state highway
ⓘ
state highway in Virginia ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
SR 243
ⓘ
VA 243 ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Town of Vienna, Virginia
ⓘ
major routes in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Fairfax County, Virginia ⓘ |
| function | connector between Vienna and major regional routes ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | south ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | north ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 243 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| isShort | true ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea |
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington metropolitan area
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| maintainedBy | Virginia Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Virginia State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Virginia primary state highway system
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| roadClassification | primary state highway ⓘ |
| serves | local traffic in Fairfax County, Virginia ⓘ |
| state | Virginia ⓘ |
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: Virginia State Route 243 Description of subject: Virginia State Route 243 is a short primary state highway in Fairfax County that connects the town of Vienna to major routes in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.