U.S. Route 15
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U.S. Route 15 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from South Carolina to New York, serving as an important regional corridor through several Mid-Atlantic and Southern states.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 15 canonical | 35 |
| U.S. 15 Business | 1 |
| U.S. Route 15 (Virginia) | 1 |
| U.S. Route 15-501 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T102985 — 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 15 Context triple: [Durham County, North Carolina, hasMajorHighway, U.S. Route 15]
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A.
U.S. Route 19
U.S. Route 19 is a major north–south United States highway running from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Memphis, Florida, passing through several states in the eastern U.S.
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B.
U.S. Route 2
U.S. Route 2 is a major east–west United States highway that runs across the northern part of the country, stretching from the Great Lakes region to northern New England.
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C.
U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
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D.
U.S. Route 460
U.S. Route 460 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through several states in the eastern United States, connecting communities in the Appalachian region to larger urban and transportation networks.
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E.
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.
- 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 15 Target entity description: U.S. Route 15 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from South Carolina to New York, serving as an important regional corridor through several Mid-Atlantic and Southern states.
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A.
U.S. Route 19
U.S. Route 19 is a major north–south United States highway running from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Memphis, Florida, passing through several states in the eastern U.S.
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B.
U.S. Route 2
U.S. Route 2 is a major east–west United States highway that runs across the northern part of the country, stretching from the Great Lakes region to northern New England.
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C.
U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
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D.
U.S. Route 460
U.S. Route 460 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through several states in the eastern United States, connecting communities in the Appalachian region to larger urban and transportation networks.
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E.
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.
- 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: U.S. Route 15 Description of subject: U.S. Route 15 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from South Carolina to New York, serving as an important regional corridor through several Mid-Atlantic and Southern states.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Haymarket
subject linked to:
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
subject linked to:
Town of Chapel Hill (partial)
linked to: U.S. Route 15
subject linked to:
State Route 7
linked to: U.S. Route 15
linked to: U.S. Route 15
subject linked to:
Route 17 (New York)