Interstate 81
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Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running primarily through the Appalachian region from Tennessee to the Canadian border in New York, serving as a key freight and travel corridor.
All labels observed (16)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T90847 — 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 81 Context triple: [Interstate 66, junctionWith, Interstate 81]
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A.
Interstate 84
Interstate 84 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Northeast that serves as a key regional route connecting parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
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B.
Interstate 84
Interstate 84 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway in the Pacific Northwest that runs through Oregon and Idaho, serving as a key route between Portland and the inland Northwest.
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C.
Interstate 395
Interstate 395 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the eastern United States that connects Washington, D.C. with suburban Virginia and serves as a key commuter and regional traffic corridor.
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D.
Interstate 87
Interstate 87 is a major north–south highway in New York State that connects New York City to the Canadian border, serving key regions such as the Hudson Valley and the Adirondacks.
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E.
Interstate 93
Interstate 93 is a major north–south highway in the New England region of the United States, running from Massachusetts through New Hampshire into Vermont and serving as a key route for regional travel and commerce.
- 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 81 Target entity description: Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running primarily through the Appalachian region from Tennessee to the Canadian border in New York, serving as a key freight and travel corridor.
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A.
Interstate 84
Interstate 84 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the Northeast that serves as a key regional route connecting parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
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B.
Interstate 84
Interstate 84 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway in the Pacific Northwest that runs through Oregon and Idaho, serving as a key route between Portland and the inland Northwest.
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C.
Interstate 395
Interstate 395 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the eastern United States that connects Washington, D.C. with suburban Virginia and serves as a key commuter and regional traffic corridor.
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D.
Interstate 87
Interstate 87 is a major north–south highway in New York State that connects New York City to the Canadian border, serving key regions such as the Hudson Valley and the Adirondacks.
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E.
Interstate 93
Interstate 93 is a major north–south highway in the New England region of the United States, running from Massachusetts through New Hampshire into Vermont and serving as a key route for regional travel and commerce.
- 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 81 Description of subject: Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running primarily through the Appalachian region from Tennessee to the Canadian border in New York, serving as a key freight and travel corridor.
Referenced by (221)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
linked to: Interstate 81
subject linked to:
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
subject linked to:
Lexington, Virginia, United States
linked to: Interstate 81
subject linked to:
western Virginia
subject linked to:
U.S. Route 11 nearby
subject linked to:
Interstate 64 in parts of Virginia
linked to: Interstate 81
subject linked to:
Newmarket, Virginia