Interstate 294
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Interstate 294 is a major toll highway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway, carrying traffic around the city and connecting key regional routes.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 294 canonical | 54 |
| I-294 beltway around Chicago | 1 |
| Interstate 294 (nearby) | 1 |
| Interstate 294 (via extension project) | 1 |
| Interstate 294 in Illinois | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T750497 — 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: Interstate 294 Context triple: [O'Hare International Airport, hasTransportConnection, Interstate 294]
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A.
I-290
I-290 is a major Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a key commuter route connecting Chicago with its western suburbs.
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B.
Interstate 290
Interstate 290 is a highway in western New York that serves as a key connector between Buffalo’s suburbs and major regional routes.
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C.
Interstate 94
Interstate 94 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from Montana to Michigan, serving key Midwestern cities such as Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
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D.
Interstate 74
Interstate 74 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states, including a segment in North Carolina.
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E.
Illinois Route 172
Illinois Route 172 is a state highway in northwestern Illinois that serves as a local connector route, including access to the village of Tampico.
- 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: Interstate 294 Target entity description: Interstate 294 is a major toll highway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway, carrying traffic around the city and connecting key regional routes.
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A.
I-290
I-290 is a major Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a key commuter route connecting Chicago with its western suburbs.
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B.
Interstate 290
Interstate 290 is a highway in western New York that serves as a key connector between Buffalo’s suburbs and major regional routes.
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C.
Interstate 94
Interstate 94 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from Montana to Michigan, serving key Midwestern cities such as Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
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D.
Interstate 74
Interstate 74 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states, including a segment in North Carolina.
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E.
Illinois Route 172
Illinois Route 172 is a state highway in northwestern Illinois that serves as a local connector route, including access to the village of Tampico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Interstate Highway
ⓘ
limited-access highway ⓘ toll road ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
I-294
ⓘ
Tri-State Tollway ⓘ
surface form:
Tri-State Tollway (segment)
|
| bypassOf |
City of Chicago
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
|
| connectsTo |
Illinois Route 394 (via I-80/I-94)
ⓘ
I-290 ⓘ
surface form:
Interstate 290
Interstate 55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 80 ⓘ Interstate 88 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 90 ⓘ Interstate 94 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 45 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| directionA | south ⓘ |
| directionB | north ⓘ |
| electronicTollCollection |
E-ZPass
ⓘ
I-PASS ⓘ |
| function |
connector between major Interstate routes
ⓘ
freight corridor ⓘ regional bypass route around Chicago ⓘ |
| hasExitNumbering | yes ⓘ |
| hasServicePlazas | yes ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Interstate Highway System ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | multiple lanes in each direction ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
ⓘ
Illinois Tollway ⓘ |
| northernTerminus | Interstate 94 in Northbrook, Illinois ⓘ |
| opened | 1950s ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
Interstate 94
ⓘ
surface form:
Interstate 94 (on part of its length)
|
| partOf | Tri-State Tollway ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor |
Tri-State Tollway
ⓘ
surface form:
Tri-State Tollway corridor (I-80/I-294/I-94)
|
| passesNear | O'Hare International Airport ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Cook County, Illinois
ⓘ
DuPage County, Illinois ⓘ |
| regionServed |
north suburbs of Chicago
ⓘ
south suburbs of Chicago ⓘ west suburbs of Chicago ⓘ |
| roadType | controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 294 ⓘ |
| southernTerminus | Interstate 80/Interstate 94/Interstate 294 in South Holland, Illinois ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| toll | yes ⓘ |
| tollSystem | open-road tolling (converted from barrier system on many segments) ⓘ |
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: Interstate 294 Description of subject: Interstate 294 is a major toll highway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway, carrying traffic around the city and connecting key regional routes.
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Des Plaines River
subject surface form:
Illinois Route 50
subject surface form:
Interstate 88 (Illinois)
this entity surface form:
Interstate 294 (nearby)
this entity surface form:
Interstate 294 in Illinois
this entity surface form:
I-294 beltway around Chicago
this entity surface form:
Interstate 294 (via extension project)