MD 212
E915361
MD 212 is a Maryland state highway serving as a key east–west arterial route in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, connecting communities in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MD 212 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11283273 — 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: MD 212 Context triple: [I-95 and MD 212 interchange, hasNumberedRoute, MD 212]
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A.
MD 214
MD 214 is a major east–west state highway in Maryland that connects Washington, D.C. suburbs with communities in Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties.
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B.
MD 22
MD 22 is a state highway in Maryland that runs through Harford County, connecting the city of Aberdeen and the Aberdeen Proving Ground area with U.S. Route 1 and other regional routes.
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C.
MD 202
MD 202 is a state highway in Maryland that connects communities in Prince George’s County, including the area near FedExField and the Capital Beltway.
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D.
MD 322
MD 322 is a short state highway in Maryland that serves as a connector route in the Easton area.
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E.
MD 32
MD 32 is a state highway in Maryland that serves as a major east–west and north–south connector through the central part of the state, linking suburbs, military installations, and key regional routes.
- 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: MD 212 Target entity description: MD 212 is a Maryland state highway serving as a key east–west arterial route in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, connecting communities in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties.
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A.
MD 214
MD 214 is a major east–west state highway in Maryland that connects Washington, D.C. suburbs with communities in Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties.
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B.
MD 22
MD 22 is a state highway in Maryland that runs through Harford County, connecting the city of Aberdeen and the Aberdeen Proving Ground area with U.S. Route 1 and other regional routes.
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C.
MD 202
MD 202 is a state highway in Maryland that connects communities in Prince George’s County, including the area near FedExField and the Capital Beltway.
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D.
MD 322
MD 322 is a short state highway in Maryland that serves as a connector route in the Easton area.
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E.
MD 32
MD 32 is a state highway in Maryland that serves as a major east–west and north–south connector through the central part of the state, linking suburbs, military installations, and key regional routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Maryland state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
communities in Montgomery County, Maryland
ⓘ
communities in Prince George's County, Maryland ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | East–west ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
MD 212
ⓘ
Maryland Route 212 ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
Montgomery County, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Montgomery County
Prince George's County, Maryland ⓘ
linked to:
Prince George’s County, Maryland
|
| hasRegion | Suburban Maryland ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork | regional commuter routes in Washington, D.C. area ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Montgomery County, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Montgomery County
Prince George's County, Maryland ⓘ
linked to:
Prince George’s County, Maryland
|
| locatedInMetropolitanArea |
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington metropolitan area
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maryland State Highway Administration ⓘ |
| partOf | Maryland State Highway System ⓘ |
| roadClassification | primary state highway ⓘ |
| roadFunction | key east–west arterial route ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 212 ⓘ |
| routeType | State highway ⓘ |
| servesAs | arterial road ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
local 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: MD 212 Description of subject: MD 212 is a Maryland state highway serving as a key east–west arterial route in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, connecting communities in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.