U.S. Route 40
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U.S. Route 40 is a major historic east–west U.S. highway that roughly follows the old National Road across the central United States, connecting numerous cities and states from the Mid-Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197092 — 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 40 Context triple: [Springfield, Ohio, United States, servedByHighway, U.S. Route 40]
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Old U.S. Route 40
Old U.S. Route 40 is a historic transcontinental highway that once connected the U.S. East and West Coasts, serving as a major early 20th-century travel and commerce route across the country.
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U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
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U.S. Route 6
U.S. Route 6 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running from Massachusetts to California, historically known as one of the longest highways in the United States.
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U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running east–west across the country from the Atlantic coast in Maryland to California, passing through numerous states and key cities along the way.
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Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental automobile roads in the United States, stretching from New York to San Francisco and pioneering long-distance highway travel.
- 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 40 Target entity description: U.S. Route 40 is a major historic east–west U.S. highway that roughly follows the old National Road across the central United States, connecting numerous cities and states from the Mid-Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains.
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A.
Old U.S. Route 40
Old U.S. Route 40 is a historic transcontinental highway that once connected the U.S. East and West Coasts, serving as a major early 20th-century travel and commerce route across the country.
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B.
U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
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C.
U.S. Route 6
U.S. Route 6 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running from Massachusetts to California, historically known as one of the longest highways in the United States.
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D.
U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running east–west across the country from the Atlantic coast in Maryland to California, passing through numerous states and key cities along the way.
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E.
Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental automobile roads in the United States, stretching from New York to San Francisco and pioneering long-distance highway travel.
- 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 40 Description of subject: U.S. Route 40 is a major historic east–west U.S. highway that roughly follows the old National Road across the central United States, connecting numerous cities and states from the Mid-Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains.
Referenced by (150)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Uniontown, Pennsylvania
subject surface form:
Uniontown, Pennsylvania
subject surface form:
Ellis, Kansas
subject surface form:
Washington County, Pennsylvania
this entity surface form:
National Road (U.S. Route 40) corridor
subject surface form:
Chesterfield, Missouri
this entity surface form:
National Pike
this entity surface form:
National Road (U.S. Route 40)
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 40 near Frederick, Maryland
this entity surface form:
Historic U.S. Route 40 corridor
this entity surface form:
Historic U.S. Route 40 corridor
subject surface form:
White River (Indiana)
subject surface form:
Verdi, Nevada
this entity surface form:
Historic U.S. Route 40
subject surface form:
U.S. Route 11
subject surface form:
Salina, Kansas
subject surface form:
Cumberland County, New Jersey
subject surface form:
Wadsworth, Nevada
this entity surface form:
Historic U.S. Route 40