Interstate 40
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Interstate 40 is a major east–west transcontinental highway in the United States that stretches from California to North Carolina, passing through several key cities and states.
All labels observed (21)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T85835 — 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: Interstate 40 Context triple: [Knoxville, Tennessee, hasInterstateHighway, Interstate 40]
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A.
U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running east–west across the country from the Atlantic coast in Maryland to California, passing through numerous states and key cities along the way.
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B.
Interstate 30
Interstate 30 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through Texas and Arkansas, connecting cities such as Dallas and Fort Worth to Little Rock.
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C.
Interstate 20
Interstate 20 is a major east–west U.S. highway running from Texas to South Carolina, serving as a key transportation corridor across the southern United States.
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D.
Interstate 25
Interstate 25 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the Rocky Mountain region, connecting cities from New Mexico through Colorado to Wyoming.
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E.
Interstate 15
Interstate 15 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Southern California through the Intermountain West to the Canadian border, serving key cities such as Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.
- 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: Interstate 40 Target entity description: Interstate 40 is a major east–west transcontinental highway in the United States that stretches from California to North Carolina, passing through several key cities and states.
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A.
U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running east–west across the country from the Atlantic coast in Maryland to California, passing through numerous states and key cities along the way.
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B.
Interstate 30
Interstate 30 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through Texas and Arkansas, connecting cities such as Dallas and Fort Worth to Little Rock.
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C.
Interstate 20
Interstate 20 is a major east–west U.S. highway running from Texas to South Carolina, serving as a key transportation corridor across the southern United States.
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D.
Interstate 25
Interstate 25 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the Rocky Mountain region, connecting cities from New Mexico through Colorado to Wyoming.
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E.
Interstate 15
Interstate 15 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Southern California through the Intermountain West to the Canadian border, serving key cities such as Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Interstate 40 Description of subject: Interstate 40 is a major east–west transcontinental highway in the United States that stretches from California to North Carolina, passing through several key cities and states.
Referenced by (464)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Town of Chapel Hill (partial)
linked to: Interstate 40
subject linked to:
I-15
subject linked to:
Orange County
subject linked to:
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina