North Carolina Highway 217
E1008998
North Carolina Highway 217 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that connects the town of Erwin to nearby communities and regional routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North Carolina Highway 217 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12501584 — 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: North Carolina Highway 217 Context triple: [Erwin, North Carolina, hasHighway, North Carolina Highway 217]
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A.
North Carolina Highway 218
North Carolina Highway 218 is a state highway in North Carolina that serves as an east–west route connecting rural communities and small towns, including areas within Union County.
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B.
North Carolina Highway 210
North Carolina Highway 210 is a state highway running across central and southeastern North Carolina, connecting rural communities, military areas, and coastal regions.
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C.
North Carolina Highway 231
North Carolina Highway 231 is a state highway in North Carolina that serves as a regional connector route in and around the town of Wendell.
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D.
North Carolina Highway 22
North Carolina Highway 22 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs generally north–south, serving as a connector route through several central counties and communities.
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E.
North Carolina Highway 226
North Carolina Highway 226 is a primary state highway in western North Carolina that connects rural communities and towns across the foothills and mountains, serving as an important regional north–south route.
- 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: North Carolina Highway 217 Target entity description: North Carolina Highway 217 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that connects the town of Erwin to nearby communities and regional routes.
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A.
North Carolina Highway 218
North Carolina Highway 218 is a state highway in North Carolina that serves as an east–west route connecting rural communities and small towns, including areas within Union County.
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B.
North Carolina Highway 210
North Carolina Highway 210 is a state highway running across central and southeastern North Carolina, connecting rural communities, military areas, and coastal regions.
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C.
North Carolina Highway 231
North Carolina Highway 231 is a state highway in North Carolina that serves as a regional connector route in and around the town of Wendell.
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D.
North Carolina Highway 22
North Carolina Highway 22 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs generally north–south, serving as a connector route through several central counties and communities.
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E.
North Carolina Highway 226
North Carolina Highway 226 is a primary state highway in western North Carolina that connects rural communities and towns across the foothills and mountains, serving as an important regional north–south route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| accessControl | at-grade ⓘ |
| connectsTo | regional routes ⓘ |
| connectsToTown | Erwin, North Carolina ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
North Carolina State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina Highway System
|
| isNumberedRoute | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf | state highway network of North Carolina ⓘ |
| isPrimaryStateHighway | true ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty | Harnett County, North Carolina ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | North Carolina Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| roadFunction |
connector route
ⓘ
regional access route ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 217 ⓘ |
| routeType | NC ⓘ |
| servesCommunityType | nearby communities ⓘ |
| servesTown | Erwin, North Carolina ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved ⓘ |
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: North Carolina Highway 217 Description of subject: North Carolina Highway 217 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that connects the town of Erwin to nearby communities and regional routes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.