Iowa state highways
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Iowa state highways are a network of numbered primary roads managed by the state of Iowa that connect cities, towns, and counties across the state.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iowa state highway system | 8 |
| Iowa state highways canonical | 8 |
| Iowa state highway | 5 |
| Iowa State Highway system | 3 |
| Iowa primary highway system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1273587 — 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: Iowa state highways Context triple: [Plymouth County, Iowa, roadNetworkIncludes, Iowa state highways]
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A.
Iowa Highway 92
Iowa Highway 92 is an east–west state highway running across southern Iowa, connecting multiple communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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B.
Iowa Highway 38
Iowa Highway 38 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south through several communities, connecting rural areas with larger regional routes.
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C.
Interstate 29
Interstate 29 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the Great Plains from Missouri to North Dakota, connecting cities such as Kansas City, Sioux City, and Fargo.
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D.
Interstate Highways in Arkansas
Interstate Highways in Arkansas are the network of federally funded, high-speed roadways that connect major cities and regions within Arkansas to the broader U.S. Interstate Highway System.
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E.
Iowa Department of Transportation
The Iowa Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways and interstates.
- 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: Iowa state highways Target entity description: Iowa state highways are a network of numbered primary roads managed by the state of Iowa that connect cities, towns, and counties across the state.
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A.
Iowa Highway 92
Iowa Highway 92 is an east–west state highway running across southern Iowa, connecting multiple communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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B.
Iowa Highway 38
Iowa Highway 38 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south through several communities, connecting rural areas with larger regional routes.
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C.
Interstate 29
Interstate 29 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the Great Plains from Missouri to North Dakota, connecting cities such as Kansas City, Sioux City, and Fargo.
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D.
Interstate Highways in Arkansas
Interstate Highways in Arkansas are the network of federally funded, high-speed roadways that connect major cities and regions within Arkansas to the broader U.S. Interstate Highway System.
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E.
Iowa Department of Transportation
The Iowa Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways and interstates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Iowa state highways Description of subject: Iowa state highways are a network of numbered primary roads managed by the state of Iowa that connect cities, towns, and counties across the state.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa primary highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa State Highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway
this entity surface form:
Iowa State Highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway system
subject surface form:
Iowa Department of Transportation
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa State Highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway system
this entity surface form:
Iowa state highway