Quebec Route 221
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Quebec Route 221 is a provincial highway in southwestern Quebec that runs north–south from the U.S. border toward the Montérégie region, connecting rural communities and linking to major regional routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quebec Route 221 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11262801 — 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: Quebec Route 221 Context triple: [Champlain–St. Bernard de Lacolle Border Crossing, isOnRoute, Quebec Route 221]
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A.
Quebec Route 257
Quebec Route 257 is a provincial highway in southern Quebec that runs north–south from the U.S. border through rural communities in the Estrie region.
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B.
Quebec Route 173
Quebec Route 173 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs through the Chaudière-Appalaches region toward the U.S. border, serving as a key north–south transportation corridor.
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C.
Quebec Route 369
Quebec Route 369 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that connects several communities northwest of Quebec City and provides access to areas such as Valcartier.
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D.
Quebec Route 161
Quebec Route 161 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs through the Estrie region toward the U.S. border, serving as a key link between local communities and Maine.
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E.
Quebec Route 169
Quebec Route 169 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs around Lac Saint-Jean and connects several communities in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region.
- 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: Quebec Route 221 Target entity description: Quebec Route 221 is a provincial highway in southwestern Quebec that runs north–south from the U.S. border toward the Montérégie region, connecting rural communities and linking to major regional routes.
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A.
Quebec Route 257
Quebec Route 257 is a provincial highway in southern Quebec that runs north–south from the U.S. border through rural communities in the Estrie region.
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B.
Quebec Route 173
Quebec Route 173 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs through the Chaudière-Appalaches region toward the U.S. border, serving as a key north–south transportation corridor.
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C.
Quebec Route 369
Quebec Route 369 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that connects several communities northwest of Quebec City and provides access to areas such as Valcartier.
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D.
Quebec Route 161
Quebec Route 161 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs through the Estrie region toward the U.S. border, serving as a key link between local communities and Maine.
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E.
Quebec Route 169
Quebec Route 169 is a provincial highway in Quebec, Canada, that runs around Lac Saint-Jean and connects several communities in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
provincial highway
ⓘ
road transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| connects | rural areas to larger regional corridors ⓘ |
| connectsTo | New York State highway network at the U.S. border ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| function |
connects rural communities in southwestern Quebec
ⓘ
links to major regional routes in Montérégie ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossingRole | links Quebec road network with United States road network ⓘ |
| hasLanes | two-lane highway (predominantly) ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | south-to-north ⓘ |
| hasRouteType | Quebec provincial route ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Province of Quebec ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialName | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Quebec
ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
Southwestern Quebec ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeRegion | Montérégie ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Transports Québec ⓘ |
| officialNameInFrench | Route 221 ⓘ |
| partOf | Quebec provincial highway network ⓘ |
| passesThroughRegion | Montérégie ⓘ |
| roadClass | secondary highway ⓘ |
| roadNumber | 221 ⓘ |
| serves |
local traffic
ⓘ
regional traffic ⓘ |
| startsAt |
U.S. border at New York–Quebec border
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. border at Stanstead, Quebec
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| terminusA | U.S. border near Lacolle, Quebec ⓘ |
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: Quebec Route 221 Description of subject: Quebec Route 221 is a provincial highway in southwestern Quebec that runs north–south from the U.S. border toward the Montérégie region, connecting rural communities and linking to major regional routes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.