US Route 1 (Maine)
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US Route 1 (Maine) is a major north–south U.S. highway that runs along Maine’s Atlantic coast, connecting numerous coastal towns and cities from the New Hampshire border to the Canadian border.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 1 in Maine | 2 |
| U.S. Route 1 in Hancock County, Maine | 1 |
| U.S. Route 1 in Orland, Maine | 1 |
| U.S. Route 1 in Washington County, Maine | 1 |
| US Route 1 (Maine) canonical | 1 |
| US Route 1A (Maine) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9652442 — 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: US Route 1 (Maine) Context triple: [SR 15 (Maine), hasJunctionWith, US Route 1 (Maine)]
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A.
U.S. Route 1 (New Hampshire)
U.S. Route 1 (New Hampshire) is a segment of the historic U.S. Route 1 highway that runs along New Hampshire’s short Atlantic coastline, connecting Massachusetts to Maine and serving coastal communities.
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B.
Maine State Route 11
Maine State Route 11 is a long north–south state highway in Maine that traverses much of the state’s interior, connecting numerous rural communities and serving as a key regional transportation corridor.
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C.
Maine State Route 16
Maine State Route 16 is a state highway in Maine that runs generally east–west across the central and western parts of the state, connecting several rural communities and major routes.
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D.
Maine State Route 15
Maine State Route 15 is a major north–south state highway in Maine that connects coastal and inland communities, including Bangor and the Moosehead Lake region.
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E.
U.S. Route 1 (Massachusetts)
U.S. Route 1 (Massachusetts) is a major north–south highway running through eastern Massachusetts, serving as a key arterial route connecting Boston and surrounding communities to New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
- 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: US Route 1 (Maine) Target entity description: US Route 1 (Maine) is a major north–south U.S. highway that runs along Maine’s Atlantic coast, connecting numerous coastal towns and cities from the New Hampshire border to the Canadian border.
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A.
U.S. Route 1 (New Hampshire)
U.S. Route 1 (New Hampshire) is a segment of the historic U.S. Route 1 highway that runs along New Hampshire’s short Atlantic coastline, connecting Massachusetts to Maine and serving coastal communities.
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B.
Maine State Route 11
Maine State Route 11 is a long north–south state highway in Maine that traverses much of the state’s interior, connecting numerous rural communities and serving as a key regional transportation corridor.
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C.
Maine State Route 16
Maine State Route 16 is a state highway in Maine that runs generally east–west across the central and western parts of the state, connecting several rural communities and major routes.
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D.
Maine State Route 15
Maine State Route 15 is a major north–south state highway in Maine that connects coastal and inland communities, including Bangor and the Moosehead Lake region.
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E.
U.S. Route 1 (Massachusetts)
U.S. Route 1 (Massachusetts) is a major north–south highway running through eastern Massachusetts, serving as a key arterial route connecting Boston and surrounding communities to New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway
ⓘ
numbered highway in Maine ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Interstate 295 in Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 95 in Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ US Route 1 Bypass (Kittery–Portsmouth) NERFINISHED ⓘ US Route 2 in Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ US Route 201 in Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Canadian border
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Hampshire border ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| followsCoastOf | Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBridge |
Penobscot Narrows Bridge (via concurrency near Bucksport)
ⓘ
Sagadahoc Bridge over the Kennebec River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConcurrencyWith |
State Route 3 (Maine)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
US Route 3 (near Ellsworth, Maine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| isMajorCorridorFor |
local traffic in coastal towns
ⓘ
tourism in coastal Maine ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aroostook County, Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cumberland County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Hancock County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Knox County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Sagadahoc County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Waldo County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ York County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| parallels |
Interstate 95 in southern Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maine State Route 9 in eastern Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. Route 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Bath, Maine
NERFINISHED
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Belfast, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Biddeford, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Brunswick, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Bucksport, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Calais, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Camden, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Caribou, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Damariscotta, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Ellsworth, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Falmouth, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Fort Kent, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Freeport, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Kennebunk, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Kittery, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Machias, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Ogunquit, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Presque Isle, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Saco, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Scarborough, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Searsport, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ South Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Wells, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Wiscasset, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Yarmouth, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ York, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsAlong | Maine’s Atlantic coast ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| terminusNorthAt | Canadian border at Clair, New Brunswick ⓘ |
| terminusNorthNear | Fort Kent, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusSouthAt | New Hampshire state line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusSouthNear | Kittery, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: US Route 1 (Maine) Description of subject: US Route 1 (Maine) is a major north–south U.S. highway that runs along Maine’s Atlantic coast, connecting numerous coastal towns and cities from the New Hampshire border to the Canadian border.
Referenced by (7)
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