Minnesota State Highway 246
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Minnesota State Highway 246 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that serves as a regional connector route through rural communities and farmland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota State Highway 246 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12637355 — 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: Minnesota State Highway 246 Context triple: [Nerstrand, Minnesota, roadAccessFrom, Minnesota State Highway 246]
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 247
Minnesota State Highway 247 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that provides a regional connection between small communities in Olmsted County and the surrounding area.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 42
Minnesota State Highway 42 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs generally north–south, connecting several small communities and rural areas between the U.S. Highway 52 corridor and the Mississippi River region.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 251
Minnesota State Highway 251 is a short east–west state highway in southern Minnesota that connects rural communities in Freeborn and neighboring counties to larger regional routes.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 26
Minnesota State Highway 26 is a north–south state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs along the Mississippi River, connecting rural communities near the Iowa border to the regional road network.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 47
Minnesota State Highway 47 is a north–south state highway in Minnesota that connects the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area with several northern communities.
- 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: Minnesota State Highway 246 Target entity description: Minnesota State Highway 246 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that serves as a regional connector route through rural communities and farmland.
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 247
Minnesota State Highway 247 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that provides a regional connection between small communities in Olmsted County and the surrounding area.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 42
Minnesota State Highway 42 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs generally north–south, connecting several small communities and rural areas between the U.S. Highway 52 corridor and the Mississippi River region.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 251
Minnesota State Highway 251 is a short east–west state highway in southern Minnesota that connects rural communities in Freeborn and neighboring counties to larger regional routes.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 26
Minnesota State Highway 26 is a north–south state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs along the Mississippi River, connecting rural communities near the Iowa border to the regional road network.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 47
Minnesota State Highway 47 is a north–south state highway in Minnesota that connects the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area with several northern communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
MN 246
ⓘ
TH 246 ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Minnesota
ⓘ
Transportation in Dakota County, Minnesota ⓘ Transportation in Rice County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| connectsTo | other regional roads in southeastern Minnesota ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| function | regional connector route ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
Minnesota State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Minnesota state trunk highway system
|
| jurisdiction |
State of Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
Minnesota
|
| locatedIn |
Dakota County, Minnesota
ⓘ
Rice County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Minnesota Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| northernTerminus | Northfield, Minnesota ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Nerstrand, Minnesota
ⓘ
Northfield, Minnesota ⓘ |
| primaryUse | local and regional traffic ⓘ |
| region | southeastern Minnesota ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 246 ⓘ |
| routeType | rural highway ⓘ |
| serves |
agricultural areas
ⓘ
rural communities ⓘ |
| southernTerminus | near Nerstrand, Minnesota ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| surface | paved ⓘ |
| terrain |
farmland
ⓘ
rural communities ⓘ |
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: Minnesota State Highway 246 Description of subject: Minnesota State Highway 246 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that serves as a regional connector route through rural communities and farmland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.