Texas State Highway 287
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Texas State Highway 287 is a major north–south state highway in Texas that connects numerous cities and towns, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Texas State Highway 287 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8557263 — 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: Texas State Highway 287 Context triple: [Midlothian, Texas, hasTransportation, Texas State Highway 287]
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A.
Texas State Highway 183
Texas State Highway 183 is a major east–west roadway in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area that serves as a key commuter and freight corridor connecting several cities and highways across North Texas.
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B.
Texas State Highway 78
Texas State Highway 78 is a state highway in Texas that runs through the Dallas–Fort Worth area, serving communities such as Sachse and connecting them to the broader regional road network.
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C.
Texas State Highway 45
Texas State Highway 45 is a toll highway forming part of the Austin area’s outer loop, helping to route traffic around the city and connect major regional roadways.
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D.
Texas State Highway 288
Texas State Highway 288 is a major north–south roadway in Texas that connects Houston with its southern suburbs and the Gulf Coast region.
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E.
Texas State Highway 34
Texas State Highway 34 is a state highway in Texas that runs generally north–south through several counties, connecting rural communities and small cities in the eastern part of the state.
- 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: Texas State Highway 287 Target entity description: Texas State Highway 287 is a major north–south state highway in Texas that connects numerous cities and towns, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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A.
Texas State Highway 183
Texas State Highway 183 is a major east–west roadway in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area that serves as a key commuter and freight corridor connecting several cities and highways across North Texas.
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B.
Texas State Highway 78
Texas State Highway 78 is a state highway in Texas that runs through the Dallas–Fort Worth area, serving communities such as Sachse and connecting them to the broader regional road network.
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C.
Texas State Highway 45
Texas State Highway 45 is a toll highway forming part of the Austin area’s outer loop, helping to route traffic around the city and connect major regional roadways.
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D.
Texas State Highway 288
Texas State Highway 288 is a major north–south roadway in Texas that connects Houston with its southern suburbs and the Gulf Coast region.
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E.
Texas State Highway 34
Texas State Highway 34 is a state highway in Texas that runs generally north–south through several counties, connecting rural communities and small cities in the eastern part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SH 287 ⓘ |
| access | public road ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Roads in Texas
ⓘ
State highways in Texas ⓘ Transportation in Texas ⓘ |
| connects |
multiple cities in Texas
ⓘ
multiple towns in Texas ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| governedBy | Texas state traffic laws ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
at-grade crossings
ⓘ
grade-separated interchanges ⓘ intersections ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
U.S. highways in Texas
ⓘ
interstate highways in Texas ⓘ other Texas state highways ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
Texas State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Texas state highways
|
| importance | major north–south corridor in Texas ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration |
multi-lane in some segments
ⓘ
two-lane in some segments ⓘ |
| legalJurisdiction |
State of Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Texas
|
| locatedIn | Texas ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Texas Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | Texas road network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Central Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
central Texas
North Texas ⓘ Texas Panhandle ⓘ |
| primaryUse | motor vehicle travel ⓘ |
| regionServed |
rural areas of Texas
ⓘ
urban areas of Texas ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 287 ⓘ |
| speedLimitType | posted speed limits set by Texas Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| surface | asphalt ⓘ |
| transportationFunction | regional transportation corridor ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transport
ⓘ
passenger 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: Texas State Highway 287 Description of subject: Texas State Highway 287 is a major north–south state highway in Texas that connects numerous cities and towns, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.