New Jersey Route 495 (eastbound approach)
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New Jersey Route 495 (eastbound approach) is a major elevated highway spur in northern New Jersey that funnels traffic from the New Jersey Turnpike and surrounding areas directly into the Lincoln Tunnel toward Midtown Manhattan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Jersey Route 495 (eastbound approach) canonical | 1 |
| New Jersey Route 495 (westbound exit) | 1 |
| New Jersey Route 495 in North Bergen, New Jersey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1455464 — 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: New Jersey Route 495 (eastbound approach) Context triple: [Lincoln Tunnel, carries, New Jersey Route 495 (eastbound approach)]
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A.
New Jersey Route 518
New Jersey Route 518 is an east–west state highway in central New Jersey that connects several communities in Somerset and Mercer counties, serving as a key local commuter and connector road.
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B.
Cross Island Parkway (approach)
Cross Island Parkway (approach) is a segment of New York City's Cross Island Parkway that serves as a key connector route leading traffic onto the Throgs Neck Bridge.
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C.
New Jersey Route 27
New Jersey Route 27 is a state highway in New Jersey that runs through central communities including Princeton, serving as a key local and regional thoroughfare.
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D.
New Jersey Route 31
New Jersey Route 31 is a state highway in New Jersey that runs generally north–south through several central and northwestern counties, connecting suburban and rural communities.
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E.
Northern State Parkway
Northern State Parkway is a major limited-access highway on Long Island, New York, that serves as a key east–west commuter route through Nassau and western Suffolk counties.
- 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: New Jersey Route 495 (eastbound approach) Target entity description: New Jersey Route 495 (eastbound approach) is a major elevated highway spur in northern New Jersey that funnels traffic from the New Jersey Turnpike and surrounding areas directly into the Lincoln Tunnel toward Midtown Manhattan.
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A.
New Jersey Route 518
New Jersey Route 518 is an east–west state highway in central New Jersey that connects several communities in Somerset and Mercer counties, serving as a key local commuter and connector road.
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B.
Cross Island Parkway (approach)
Cross Island Parkway (approach) is a segment of New York City's Cross Island Parkway that serves as a key connector route leading traffic onto the Throgs Neck Bridge.
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C.
New Jersey Route 27
New Jersey Route 27 is a state highway in New Jersey that runs through central communities including Princeton, serving as a key local and regional thoroughfare.
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D.
New Jersey Route 31
New Jersey Route 31 is a state highway in New Jersey that runs generally north–south through several central and northwestern counties, connecting suburban and rural communities.
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E.
Northern State Parkway
Northern State Parkway is a major limited-access highway on Long Island, New York, that serves as a key east–west commuter route through Nassau and western Suffolk counties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
elevated roadway
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highway segment ⓘ |
| approachTo | Lincoln Tunnel eastbound tubes ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Lincoln Tunnel
ⓘ
Midtown Manhattan ⓘ New Jersey Turnpike ⓘ |
| direction | eastbound ⓘ |
| elevation | elevated viaduct ⓘ |
| function | funnels traffic toward the Lincoln Tunnel ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple travel lanes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hudson County, New Jersey
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New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
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| maintainedBy |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
State of New Jersey
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| partOf | New Jersey Route 495 ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork |
New Jersey State Highway System
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surface form:
New Jersey state highway system
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| primaryDestination |
Manhattan
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Midtown Manhattan ⓘ |
| regionServed | northern New Jersey ⓘ |
| roadType | limited-access highway ⓘ |
| servesAs | spur to the Lincoln Tunnel ⓘ |
| servesTrafficFrom |
New Jersey Turnpike
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surrounding local roads ⓘ |
| terminusDirection | east ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
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interstate travel ⓘ |
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: New Jersey Route 495 (eastbound approach) Description of subject: New Jersey Route 495 (eastbound approach) is a major elevated highway spur in northern New Jersey that funnels traffic from the New Jersey Turnpike and surrounding areas directly into the Lincoln Tunnel toward Midtown Manhattan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New Jersey Route 495 (westbound exit)
subject surface form:
Route 3 (New Jersey)
this entity surface form:
New Jersey Route 495 in North Bergen, New Jersey