Interstate 72
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Interstate 72 is a U.S. highway running through parts of Illinois and Missouri, providing an important east–west transportation corridor in the Midwest.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 72 canonical | 21 |
| I-72 corridor | 1 |
| Interstate 72 in Illinois | 1 |
| Interstate 72 in Missouri | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110857 — 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 72 Context triple: [Hannibal, Missouri, servedBy, Interstate 72]
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A.
Interstate 73
Interstate 73 is a north–south U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through several states in the eastern United States, including North Carolina.
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B.
Interstate 205
Interstate 205 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as an eastern bypass of Portland, Oregon, connecting I-5 in Oregon to I-5 in Washington across the Columbia River.
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C.
Interstate 55
Interstate 55 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Louisiana to Illinois, connecting cities such as New Orleans, Memphis, and Chicago.
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D.
Interstate 20
Interstate 20 is a major east–west U.S. highway running from Texas to South Carolina, serving as a key transportation corridor across the southern United States.
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E.
Interstate 59
Interstate 59 is a major U.S. highway running from Louisiana to Georgia, serving as a key north–south transportation corridor through the Deep South.
- 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 72 Target entity description: Interstate 72 is a U.S. highway running through parts of Illinois and Missouri, providing an important east–west transportation corridor in the Midwest.
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A.
Interstate 73
Interstate 73 is a north–south U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through several states in the eastern United States, including North Carolina.
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B.
Interstate 205
Interstate 205 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as an eastern bypass of Portland, Oregon, connecting I-5 in Oregon to I-5 in Washington across the Columbia River.
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C.
Interstate 55
Interstate 55 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Louisiana to Illinois, connecting cities such as New Orleans, Memphis, and Chicago.
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D.
Interstate 20
Interstate 20 is a major east–west U.S. highway running from Texas to South Carolina, serving as a key transportation corridor across the southern United States.
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E.
Interstate 59
Interstate 59 is a major U.S. highway running from Louisiana to Georgia, serving as a key north–south transportation corridor through the Deep South.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 72 Description of subject: Interstate 72 is a U.S. highway running through parts of Illinois and Missouri, providing an important east–west transportation corridor in the Midwest.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hannibal, Missouri, United States
subject linked to:
Champaign, Illinois, United States
linked to: Interstate 72
linked to: Interstate 72
subject linked to:
Springfield
subject linked to:
western Illinois
linked to: Interstate 72