Minnesota State Highway 16
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Minnesota State Highway 16 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs through rural communities and farmland, connecting small towns near the Iowa border.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota State Highway 16 canonical | 9 |
| Minnesota State Highway 16 at Hokah, Minnesota | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10605337 — 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: Minnesota State Highway 16 Context triple: [Grand Meadow, Minnesota, roadAccessVia, Minnesota State Highway 16]
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 11
Minnesota State Highway 11 is an east–west state highway in northern Minnesota that runs along the Canadian border, connecting several small communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 13
Minnesota State Highway 13 is a state highway in Minnesota that runs through the Twin Cities metropolitan area and several southern suburbs, serving as a key regional connector.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 1
Minnesota State Highway 1 is a major east–west state highway in northern Minnesota that spans the state from the North Dakota border near Oslo to the Lake Superior shore near Illgen City.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 19
Minnesota State Highway 19 is an east–west state highway in southern Minnesota that connects several communities and major routes across the region.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 21
Minnesota State Highway 21 is a state highway in Minnesota that connects several communities in the south-central part of the state, including the city of Faribault.
- 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: Minnesota State Highway 16 Target entity description: Minnesota State Highway 16 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs through rural communities and farmland, connecting small towns near the Iowa border.
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 11
Minnesota State Highway 11 is an east–west state highway in northern Minnesota that runs along the Canadian border, connecting several small communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 13
Minnesota State Highway 13 is a state highway in Minnesota that runs through the Twin Cities metropolitan area and several southern suburbs, serving as a key regional connector.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 1
Minnesota State Highway 1 is a major east–west state highway in northern Minnesota that spans the state from the North Dakota border near Oslo to the Lake Superior shore near Illgen City.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 19
Minnesota State Highway 19 is an east–west state highway in southern Minnesota that connects several communities and major routes across the region.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 21
Minnesota State Highway 21 is a state highway in Minnesota that connects several communities in the south-central part of the state, including the city of Faribault.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Minnesota
ⓘ
Transportation in Fillmore County, Minnesota ⓘ Transportation in Houston County, Minnesota ⓘ Transportation in Mower County, Minnesota ⓘ Transportation in Winona County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| connects | small towns in southeastern Minnesota ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| follows | Root River valley in parts of its route ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 90
ⓘ
U.S. Highway 52 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Highway 61 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Highway 63 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 16 ⓘ |
| highwayType | Trunk Highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fillmore County, Minnesota
ⓘ
Houston County, Minnesota ⓘ Mower County, Minnesota ⓘ Winona County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Minnesota Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| near | Iowa border ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
Interstate 90 in southeastern Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
Interstate 90 in Minnesota
|
| partOf |
Minnesota State Highway system
ⓘ
linked to:
Minnesota State Highway
|
| region | southeastern Minnesota ⓘ |
| routeOrientation | east–west ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
farmland
ⓘ
rural communities ⓘ |
| serves | local traffic in southeastern Minnesota ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
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: Minnesota State Highway 16 Description of subject: Minnesota State Highway 16 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs through rural communities and farmland, connecting small towns near the Iowa border.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Minnesota State Highway 16