U.S. Route 221 in South Carolina
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U.S. Route 221 in South Carolina is a north–south United States highway that traverses the state, connecting several rural communities and small cities as part of the broader U.S. Highway System.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Route 221 in South Carolina canonical | 2 |
| U.S. Route 221 in Spartanburg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12803853 — 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: U.S. Route 221 in South Carolina Context triple: [U.S. Highways in South Carolina, hasRoute, U.S. Route 221 in South Carolina]
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U.S. Route 21 in South Carolina
U.S. Route 21 in South Carolina is a north–south federal highway that connects coastal areas near Beaufort and Hilton Head Island to inland communities as it travels toward the central part of the state.
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U.S. Route 321 in South Carolina
U.S. Route 321 in South Carolina is a north–south United States highway that connects several communities between the Georgia state line and the North Carolina border, serving as an important inland alternative to more coastal routes.
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C.
U.S. Route 278 in South Carolina
U.S. Route 278 in South Carolina is an east–west federal highway that traverses the state, connecting inland communities with the coastal Lowcountry and serving as a key route to destinations such as Hilton Head Island.
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U.S. Route 25 in South Carolina
U.S. Route 25 in South Carolina is a major north–south federal highway that connects the Augusta, Georgia area to the Greenville region, serving as an important corridor for regional travel and commerce.
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U.S. Route 29 in South Carolina
U.S. Route 29 in South Carolina is a major north–south highway that connects several key Upstate cities and communities, paralleling Interstate 85 through 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: U.S. Route 221 in South Carolina Target entity description: U.S. Route 221 in South Carolina is a north–south United States highway that traverses the state, connecting several rural communities and small cities as part of the broader U.S. Highway System.
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A.
U.S. Route 21 in South Carolina
U.S. Route 21 in South Carolina is a north–south federal highway that connects coastal areas near Beaufort and Hilton Head Island to inland communities as it travels toward the central part of the state.
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B.
U.S. Route 321 in South Carolina
U.S. Route 321 in South Carolina is a north–south United States highway that connects several communities between the Georgia state line and the North Carolina border, serving as an important inland alternative to more coastal routes.
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C.
U.S. Route 278 in South Carolina
U.S. Route 278 in South Carolina is an east–west federal highway that traverses the state, connecting inland communities with the coastal Lowcountry and serving as a key route to destinations such as Hilton Head Island.
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D.
U.S. Route 25 in South Carolina
U.S. Route 25 in South Carolina is a major north–south federal highway that connects the Augusta, Georgia area to the Greenville region, serving as an important corridor for regional travel and commerce.
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E.
U.S. Route 29 in South Carolina
U.S. Route 29 in South Carolina is a major north–south highway that connects several key Upstate cities and communities, paralleling Interstate 85 through the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
How these facts were elicited
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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: U.S. Route 221 in South Carolina Description of subject: U.S. Route 221 in South Carolina is a north–south United States highway that traverses the state, connecting several rural communities and small cities as part of the broader U.S. Highway System.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: U.S. Route 221 in South Carolina