British Columbia Highway 21
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British Columbia Highway 21 is a short provincial highway in southeastern British Columbia that links the Canada–U.S. border near Rykerts to the town of Creston.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| British Columbia Highway 21 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13292277 — 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: British Columbia Highway 21 Context triple: [British Columbia Highway 3, connectsTo, British Columbia Highway 21]
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British Columbia Highway 17
British Columbia Highway 17 is a major provincial highway in British Columbia that serves as a key connector between the Tsawwassen ferry terminal, the Lower Mainland, and Vancouver Island via its mainland and Vancouver Island segments.
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British Columbia Highway 22
British Columbia Highway 22 is a provincial highway in southeastern British Columbia that runs through the West Kootenay region, connecting communities such as Castlegar to the Canada–U.S. border.
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C.
British Columbia Highway 12
British Columbia Highway 12 is a scenic provincial highway in British Columbia that runs along the Fraser River, connecting the town of Lillooet to the Trans-Canada Highway near Lytton.
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British Columbia Highway 11
British Columbia Highway 11 is a north–south provincial highway in the Fraser Valley region that connects the U.S. border near Sumas to the Trans-Canada Highway at Abbotsford, British Columbia.
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E.
British Columbia Highway 13
British Columbia Highway 13 is a short north–south provincial highway in the Fraser Valley region that connects the Canada–US border near Aldergrove to major routes in Langley, British Columbia.
- 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: British Columbia Highway 21 Target entity description: British Columbia Highway 21 is a short provincial highway in southeastern British Columbia that links the Canada–U.S. border near Rykerts to the town of Creston.
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A.
British Columbia Highway 17
British Columbia Highway 17 is a major provincial highway in British Columbia that serves as a key connector between the Tsawwassen ferry terminal, the Lower Mainland, and Vancouver Island via its mainland and Vancouver Island segments.
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B.
British Columbia Highway 22
British Columbia Highway 22 is a provincial highway in southeastern British Columbia that runs through the West Kootenay region, connecting communities such as Castlegar to the Canada–U.S. border.
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C.
British Columbia Highway 12
British Columbia Highway 12 is a scenic provincial highway in British Columbia that runs along the Fraser River, connecting the town of Lillooet to the Trans-Canada Highway near Lytton.
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D.
British Columbia Highway 11
British Columbia Highway 11 is a north–south provincial highway in the Fraser Valley region that connects the U.S. border near Sumas to the Trans-Canada Highway at Abbotsford, British Columbia.
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E.
British Columbia Highway 13
British Columbia Highway 13 is a short north–south provincial highway in the Fraser Valley region that connects the Canada–US border near Aldergrove to major routes in Langley, British Columbia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
provincial highway
ⓘ
road transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| accesses | agricultural areas of Creston Valley ⓘ |
| borderCrossingName | Rykerts–Porthill Border Crossing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Provincial highways in British Columbia
ⓘ
Transport in the Regional District of Central Kootenay ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Canada–United States border
NERFINISHED
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Creston, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Rykerts, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 95 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continuesAs | U.S. Route 95 in Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| directionA | South ⓘ |
| directionB | North ⓘ |
| hasBorderFacility |
Canada Border Services Agency port of entry at Rykerts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry at Porthill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith | British Columbia Highway 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | British Columbia provincial highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNumberedRouteOf | British Columbia Highway 1–97 series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | approximately 10 km ⓘ |
| locatedIn | British Columbia ⓘ |
| locatedInValley | Kootenay River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCommunity | Porthill, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyWaterBody | Kootenay River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Regional District of Central Kootenay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pavement | paved ⓘ |
| provinceAbbreviation | BC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | southeastern British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | two-lane highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 21 ⓘ |
| serves | Creston Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesFunction |
cross-border trade route
ⓘ
link between Creston and U.S. Route 95 ⓘ |
| terminusJunction | British Columbia Highway 3 in Creston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Creston, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | Canada–United States border near Rykerts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: British Columbia Highway 21 Description of subject: British Columbia Highway 21 is a short provincial highway in southeastern British Columbia that links the Canada–U.S. border near Rykerts to the town of Creston.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.