U.S. Route 501
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U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 501 canonical | 12 |
| U.S. Route 15-501 | 2 |
| U.S. Route 15/501 | 1 |
| US 501 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T102987 — 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 501 Context triple: [Durham County, North Carolina, hasMajorHighway, U.S. Route 501]
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A.
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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B.
U.S. Route 75
U.S. Route 75 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the central United States, serving as a key transportation corridor for cities such as Dallas.
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C.
U.S. Route 50 Business
U.S. Route 50 Business is a business loop of U.S. Route 50 that serves local traffic and commercial areas in and around Pueblo, Colorado.
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D.
U.S. Route 34
U.S. Route 34 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running from Colorado through the Midwest to Illinois, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
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.
- 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 501 Target entity description: U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
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A.
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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B.
U.S. Route 75
U.S. Route 75 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the central United States, serving as a key transportation corridor for cities such as Dallas.
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C.
U.S. Route 50 Business
U.S. Route 50 Business is a business loop of U.S. Route 50 that serves local traffic and commercial areas in and around Pueblo, Colorado.
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D.
U.S. Route 34
U.S. Route 34 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running from Colorado through the Midwest to Illinois, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
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.
- 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 501 Description of subject: U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: U.S. Route 501
linked to: U.S. Route 501
linked to: U.S. Route 501
linked to: U.S. Route 501