Iowa Highway 218 (nearby)
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Iowa Highway 218 is a major north–south U.S. route running through eastern Iowa, connecting numerous small towns and cities as part of a key regional transportation corridor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa Highway 218 (business routes and access) | 1 |
| Iowa Highway 218 (nearby) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12847059 — 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: Iowa Highway 218 (nearby) Context triple: [Little Cedar, Iowa, hasStateHighway, Iowa Highway 218 (nearby)]
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A.
Iowa Highway 212
Iowa Highway 212 is a short state highway in Iowa that serves as a local connector route between small communities and other primary highways.
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B.
Iowa Highway 184
Iowa Highway 184 is a state highway in southwestern Iowa that serves as a primary route within Fremont County, connecting local communities to the broader state road network.
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C.
Iowa Highway 965
Iowa Highway 965 is a former state highway in eastern Iowa that once served as a key connector between Coralville and North Liberty, paralleling Interstate 380.
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D.
Iowa Highway 192
Iowa Highway 192 is a short state highway in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that primarily serves as an urban connector route linking local streets with the Interstate system.
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E.
Iowa Highway 148
Iowa Highway 148 is a state highway in southwestern Iowa that runs north–south through rural communities and farmland, connecting small towns and local routes in the 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: Iowa Highway 218 (nearby) Target entity description: Iowa Highway 218 is a major north–south U.S. route running through eastern Iowa, connecting numerous small towns and cities as part of a key regional transportation corridor.
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A.
Iowa Highway 212
Iowa Highway 212 is a short state highway in Iowa that serves as a local connector route between small communities and other primary highways.
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B.
Iowa Highway 184
Iowa Highway 184 is a state highway in southwestern Iowa that serves as a primary route within Fremont County, connecting local communities to the broader state road network.
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C.
Iowa Highway 965
Iowa Highway 965 is a former state highway in eastern Iowa that once served as a key connector between Coralville and North Liberty, paralleling Interstate 380.
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D.
Iowa Highway 192
Iowa Highway 192 is a short state highway in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that primarily serves as an urban connector route linking local streets with the Interstate system.
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E.
Iowa Highway 148
Iowa Highway 148 is a state highway in southwestern Iowa that runs north–south through rural communities and farmland, connecting small towns and local routes in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
cities in eastern Iowa
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small towns in eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| function | regional transportation corridor ⓘ |
| hasDirection |
northbound
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southbound ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith | local roads in eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| highwayType | state highway in Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Iowa state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear | small communities in eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| passesThrough | rural areas of eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| roadCategory | major highway in Iowa ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| roadSystemRole | key connector between towns and cities in eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| routeOrientation | north–south ⓘ |
| serves |
intercity travel in Iowa
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regional travel in eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| transportationMode | road transport ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle 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: Iowa Highway 218 (nearby) Description of subject: Iowa Highway 218 is a major north–south U.S. route running through eastern Iowa, connecting numerous small towns and cities as part of a key regional transportation corridor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Iowa Highway 218 (business routes and access)