Illinois Tollway
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Illinois Tollway is the state agency that operates and maintains the network of toll highways in northern Illinois.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illinois Tollway system | 7 |
| Illinois Tollway canonical | 4 |
| Illinois Tollway oases | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1497414 — 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: Illinois Tollway Context triple: [I-355, maintainedBy, Illinois Tollway]
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A.
Indiana Toll Road
The Indiana Toll Road is a major east–west highway running across northern Indiana, forming part of the Interstate 80/90 corridor and providing a key link between the Chicago area and the Ohio Turnpike.
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B.
Dallas North Tollway
Dallas North Tollway is a major north–south toll road in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex that connects downtown Dallas with its northern suburbs.
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C.
Ohio Turnpike
The Ohio Turnpike is a major east–west toll highway across northern Ohio that forms part of the Interstate system and serves as a key transportation corridor for both passenger and commercial traffic.
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D.
Interstate 88
Interstate 88 is a major east–west highway in Illinois that connects the Chicago metropolitan area with the Quad Cities and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
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E.
East-West Tollway corridor
The East-West Tollway corridor is a major suburban business and technology hub in the Chicago metropolitan area, known for its concentration of corporate headquarters, research facilities, and educational institutions along Interstate 88 in Illinois.
- 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: Illinois Tollway Target entity description: Illinois Tollway is the state agency that operates and maintains the network of toll highways in northern Illinois.
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A.
Indiana Toll Road
The Indiana Toll Road is a major east–west highway running across northern Indiana, forming part of the Interstate 80/90 corridor and providing a key link between the Chicago area and the Ohio Turnpike.
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B.
Dallas North Tollway
Dallas North Tollway is a major north–south toll road in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex that connects downtown Dallas with its northern suburbs.
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C.
Ohio Turnpike
The Ohio Turnpike is a major east–west toll highway across northern Ohio that forms part of the Interstate system and serves as a key transportation corridor for both passenger and commercial traffic.
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D.
Interstate 88
Interstate 88 is a major east–west highway in Illinois that connects the Chicago metropolitan area with the Quad Cities and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
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E.
East-West Tollway corridor
The East-West Tollway corridor is a major suburban business and technology hub in the Chicago metropolitan area, known for its concentration of corporate headquarters, research facilities, and educational institutions along Interstate 88 in Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state agency ⓘ toll highway operator ⓘ |
| brand | I-PASS ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| establishedBy | Illinois General Assembly ⓘ |
| fundingModel | toll revenues ⓘ |
| governingBody | Board of Directors ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Downers Grove, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implements |
infrastructure improvement programs
ⓘ
road safety programs ⓘ |
| industry |
road infrastructure
ⓘ
transportation ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Illinois
|
| legalForm | toll highway authority ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintains | toll highways in northern Illinois ⓘ |
| monitors | traffic conditions on tollways ⓘ |
| networkType | limited-access highway ⓘ |
| officialName | Illinois State Toll Highway Authority ⓘ |
| operates | toll highways in northern Illinois ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Illinois
|
| regionServed |
northern Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Illinois
|
| responsibleFor |
capital improvement projects
ⓘ
roadway maintenance ⓘ toll collection ⓘ |
| serviceArea | Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ |
| serviceType |
highway maintenance
ⓘ
highway operation ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Illinois transportation policy
ⓘ
infrastructure funding debates ⓘ |
| tollSystem | open road tolling ⓘ |
| transportationMode | motor vehicle ⓘ |
| typeOfTollRoads |
interstate highways
ⓘ
state highways ⓘ |
| uses | electronic toll collection ⓘ |
| website | https://www.illinoistollway.com ⓘ |
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: Illinois Tollway Description of subject: Illinois Tollway is the state agency that operates and maintains the network of toll highways in northern Illinois.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
I-355
this entity surface form:
Illinois Tollway system
this entity surface form:
Illinois Tollway system
this entity surface form:
Illinois Tollway system
this entity surface form:
Illinois Tollway oases
this entity surface form:
Illinois Tollway system
this entity surface form:
Illinois Tollway system
this entity surface form:
Illinois Tollway system