U.S. Route 2 in Maine
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U.S. Route 2 in Maine is a major east–west highway crossing the state’s interior, connecting rural communities and regional centers between New Hampshire and the Bangor area.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Route 2 in Exeter, Maine | 1 |
| U.S. Route 2 in Fairfield, Maine | 1 |
| U.S. Route 2 in Maine canonical | 1 |
| U.S. Route 2 in New Sharon, Maine | 1 |
| U.S. Route 2 in Newport, Maine | 1 |
| US Route 2 in Maine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T27134 — 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 2 in Maine Context triple: [U.S. Route 1, hasJunctionWith, U.S. Route 2 in Maine]
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U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 is a major north–south United States highway running along the East Coast from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine.
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B.
Interstate 395
Interstate 395 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the eastern United States that connects Washington, D.C. with suburban Virginia and serves as a key commuter and regional traffic corridor.
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C.
Route 16 (Revere Beach Parkway)
Route 16 (Revere Beach Parkway) is a major urban arterial roadway in the Greater Boston area that connects several North Shore communities and provides key access to Revere Beach and surrounding neighborhoods.
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D.
Georgia State Route 85
Georgia State Route 85 is a primary north–south state highway in western Georgia that connects several communities, including Warm Springs, to the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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E.
Malden River
The Malden River is a short urban river in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts that flows through communities including Everett before joining the Mystic River.
- 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 2 in Maine Target entity description: U.S. Route 2 in Maine is a major east–west highway crossing the state’s interior, connecting rural communities and regional centers between New Hampshire and the Bangor area.
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A.
U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 is a major north–south United States highway running along the East Coast from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine.
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B.
Interstate 395
Interstate 395 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the eastern United States that connects Washington, D.C. with suburban Virginia and serves as a key commuter and regional traffic corridor.
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C.
Route 16 (Revere Beach Parkway)
Route 16 (Revere Beach Parkway) is a major urban arterial roadway in the Greater Boston area that connects several North Shore communities and provides key access to Revere Beach and surrounding neighborhoods.
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D.
Georgia State Route 85
Georgia State Route 85 is a primary north–south state highway in western Georgia that connects several communities, including Warm Springs, to the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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E.
Malden River
The Malden River is a short urban river in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts that flows through communities including Everett before joining the Mystic River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: U.S. Route 2 in Maine Description of subject: U.S. Route 2 in Maine is a major east–west highway crossing the state’s interior, connecting rural communities and regional centers between New Hampshire and the Bangor area.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 2 in Newport, Maine
this entity surface form:
US Route 2 in Maine
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 2 in Fairfield, Maine
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 2 in New Sharon, Maine
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 2 in Exeter, Maine