Route 2
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Route 2 is a major east–west state highway in Maine that serves as a key regional corridor connecting numerous towns and cities across the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Route 2 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7535623 — 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: Route 2 Context triple: [Maine State Route 2, abbreviation, Route 2]
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A.
Route 2
Route 2 is a major state highway in Massachusetts that serves as a key commuter route between the Boston area and the state's northwestern regions.
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B.
Route 1
Route 1 is a major Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) bus line in Boston and Cambridge that connects Harvard Square to Dudley/Nubian Square via Massachusetts Avenue.
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C.
Route 1
Route 1 is a major Costa Rican highway that forms part of the Pan-American Highway, connecting the capital San José with key cities and regions across the country.
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D.
Route 3
Route 3 is a major east–west highway in northern New Jersey that connects the New Jersey Turnpike area to the Lincoln Tunnel approach into New York City.
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E.
Route 3
Route 3 is a major north–south highway in Massachusetts that links the Boston area to the South Shore and Cape Cod while also connecting with key regional routes such as the Lowell Connector.
- 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: Route 2 Target entity description: Route 2 is a major east–west state highway in Maine that serves as a key regional corridor connecting numerous towns and cities across the state.
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A.
Route 2
Route 2 is a major state highway in Massachusetts that serves as a key commuter route between the Boston area and the state's northwestern regions.
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B.
Route 1
Route 1 is a major Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) bus line in Boston and Cambridge that connects Harvard Square to Dudley/Nubian Square via Massachusetts Avenue.
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C.
Route 1
Route 1 is a major Costa Rican highway that forms part of the Pan-American Highway, connecting the capital San José with key cities and regions across the country.
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D.
Route 3
Route 3 is a major east–west highway in northern New Jersey that connects the New Jersey Turnpike area to the Lincoln Tunnel approach into New York City.
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E.
Route 3
Route 3 is a major north–south highway in Massachusetts that links the Boston area to the South Shore and Cape Cod while also connecting with key regional routes such as the Lowell Connector.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
multiple cities in Maine
ⓘ
multiple towns in Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| function | regional transportation corridor ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | West ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | East ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| highwayType | state highway ⓘ |
| isNumberedRoute | yes ⓘ |
| isPublicRoad | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Maine
ⓘ
New England ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf | Maine State Route system ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle traffic ⓘ |
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: Route 2 Description of subject: Route 2 is a major east–west state highway in Maine that serves as a key regional corridor connecting numerous towns and cities across the state.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.