U.S. Route 61
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U.S. Route 61 is a major north–south United States highway, often called the "Blues Highway," that runs along the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Minnesota–Canada border.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 61 canonical | 36 |
| U.S. Highway 61 | 3 |
| Airline Drive (U.S. Route 61) | 1 |
| U.S. Route 61 corridor | 1 |
| U.S. Route 61 in Louisiana | 1 |
| U.S. Route 61 via U.S. Route 36 near Hannibal, Missouri | 1 |
| north–south U.S. Route 61 corridor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110856 — 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 61 Context triple: [Hannibal, Missouri, servedBy, U.S. Route 61]
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A.
U.S. Route 70
U.S. Route 70 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from Arizona to North Carolina, serving as an important transportation corridor across the southern part of the country.
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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 90
U.S. Route 90 is a major east–west United States highway running across the southern part of the country, primarily through Gulf Coast states.
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D.
U.S. Route 6
U.S. Route 6 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running from Massachusetts to California, historically known as one of the longest highways in the United States.
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E.
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.
- 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 61 Target entity description: U.S. Route 61 is a major north–south United States highway, often called the "Blues Highway," that runs along the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Minnesota–Canada border.
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A.
U.S. Route 70
U.S. Route 70 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from Arizona to North Carolina, serving as an important transportation corridor across the southern part of the country.
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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 90
U.S. Route 90 is a major east–west United States highway running across the southern part of the country, primarily through Gulf Coast states.
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D.
U.S. Route 6
U.S. Route 6 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running from Massachusetts to California, historically known as one of the longest highways in the United States.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 61 Description of subject: U.S. Route 61 is a major north–south United States highway, often called the "Blues Highway," that runs along the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Minnesota–Canada border.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hannibal, Missouri, United States
linked to: U.S. Route 61
linked to: U.S. Route 61
subject linked to:
Crystal City, Missouri, United States
linked to: U.S. Route 61
subject linked to:
Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States
linked to: U.S. Route 61
linked to: U.S. Route 61
subject linked to:
western Wisconsin
subject linked to:
Jefferson County
subject linked to:
Wentzville Assembly, Wentzville, Missouri, United States
linked to: U.S. Route 61
linked to: U.S. Route 61
linked to: U.S. Route 61