Virginia State Route 228
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Virginia State Route 228 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that serves as a key north–south arterial route through the town of Herndon in Fairfax County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virginia State Route 228 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1511249 — 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: Virginia State Route 228 Context triple: [Herndon, majorRoad, Virginia State Route 228]
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A.
Virginia State Route 28
Virginia State Route 28 is a primary north–south highway in Northern Virginia that connects communities such as Manassas to major regional routes and serves as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
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B.
Virginia State Route 24
Virginia State Route 24 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs through central parts of the state, including the historic Appomattox Court House area.
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C.
Virginia State Route 234
Virginia State Route 234 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that serves as a major north–south arterial route connecting the Manassas area with Interstate highways and surrounding communities.
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D.
Virginia State Route 243
Virginia State Route 243 is a short primary state highway in Fairfax County that connects the town of Vienna to major routes in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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E.
Virginia State Route 267
Virginia State Route 267 is a major toll road in Northern Virginia that connects the Washington, D.C. area to Washington Dulles International Airport and the town of Leesburg.
- 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: Virginia State Route 228 Target entity description: Virginia State Route 228 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that serves as a key north–south arterial route through the town of Herndon in Fairfax County.
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A.
Virginia State Route 28
Virginia State Route 28 is a primary north–south highway in Northern Virginia that connects communities such as Manassas to major regional routes and serves as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
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B.
Virginia State Route 24
Virginia State Route 24 is a primary state highway in Virginia that runs through central parts of the state, including the historic Appomattox Court House area.
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C.
Virginia State Route 234
Virginia State Route 234 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that serves as a major north–south arterial route connecting the Manassas area with Interstate highways and surrounding communities.
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D.
Virginia State Route 243
Virginia State Route 243 is a short primary state highway in Fairfax County that connects the town of Vienna to major routes in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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E.
Virginia State Route 267
Virginia State Route 267 is a major toll road in Northern Virginia that connects the Washington, D.C. area to Washington Dulles International Airport and the town of Leesburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
primary state highway
ⓘ
state highway in Virginia ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Virginia
ⓘ
Transportation in Fairfax County, Virginia ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Fairfax County, Virginia ⓘ |
| directionA | South ⓘ |
| directionB | North ⓘ |
| function | north–south arterial route ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Virginia State Route 606
ⓘ
Virginia State Route 7 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Virginia primary state highway system ⓘ |
| lanes | multiple lanes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fairfax County, Virginia
ⓘ
Northern Virginia ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Virginia Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | Fairfax County road network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Herndon
ⓘ
surface form:
Herndon, Virginia
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| region | Washington metropolitan area ⓘ |
| roadType | surface road ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 228 ⓘ |
| serves |
Herndon
ⓘ
surface form:
town of Herndon
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| state | Virginia ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
local traffic ⓘ |
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: Virginia State Route 228 Description of subject: Virginia State Route 228 is a primary state highway in Northern Virginia that serves as a key north–south arterial route through the town of Herndon in Fairfax County.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.