VA 9
E923758
VA 9 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs east–west across the northern part of the state, connecting rural communities to the West Virginia border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VA 9 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11401898 — 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: VA 9 Context triple: [VA 7, hasJunctionWith, VA 9]
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A.
VA 7
VA 7 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs east–west, connecting Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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B.
VA 28
VA 28 is a major north–south state highway in Northern Virginia that serves as a key commuter and freight corridor connecting Dulles International Airport and surrounding suburbs to other regional routes.
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C.
VA 294
VA 294 is a primary state highway in Virginia that serves as a key connector route in the Prince William County area.
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D.
VA 236
VA 236 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that follows much of the historic Little River Turnpike corridor through Fairfax County and the City of Alexandria.
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E.
VA-01
VA-01 is the shorthand designation for Virginia's 1st congressional district, a U.S. House of Representatives district covering parts of eastern Virginia.
- 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: VA 9 Target entity description: VA 9 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs east–west across the northern part of the state, connecting rural communities to the West Virginia border.
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A.
VA 7
VA 7 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs east–west, connecting Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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B.
VA 28
VA 28 is a major north–south state highway in Northern Virginia that serves as a key commuter and freight corridor connecting Dulles International Airport and surrounding suburbs to other regional routes.
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C.
VA 294
VA 294 is a primary state highway in Virginia that serves as a key connector route in the Prince William County area.
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D.
VA 236
VA 236 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that follows much of the historic Little River Turnpike corridor through Fairfax County and the City of Alexandria.
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E.
VA-01
VA-01 is the shorthand designation for Virginia's 1st congressional district, a U.S. House of Representatives district covering parts of eastern Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
primary state highway
ⓘ
state highway in Virginia ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
SR 9
ⓘ
State Route 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia State Route 9 ⓘ |
| borderConnection |
Virginia–West Virginia state line
ⓘ
linked to:
Virginia–West Virginia boundary
|
| category |
State highways in Virginia
ⓘ
Transportation in northern Virginia ⓘ |
| connectsTo | West Virginia border ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| easternTerminusState | Virginia ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | West ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | East ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 9 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| isNumberedRouteIn | Virginia primary state highway system ⓘ |
| locationRegion | Northern Virginia ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Virginia Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf |
Virginia State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Virginia state highway system
|
| roadFunction |
connector of rural communities to regional highway network
ⓘ
primary connector between Virginia and West Virginia ⓘ |
| serves | rural communities in northern Virginia ⓘ |
| state | Virginia ⓘ |
| traverses | northern part of Virginia ⓘ |
| westernTerminusState | West Virginia ⓘ |
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: VA 9 Description of subject: VA 9 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs east–west across the northern part of the state, connecting rural communities to the West Virginia border.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.