Iowa Highway 163
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Iowa Highway 163 is a primary state highway in Iowa that runs southeast–northwest, connecting Des Moines with cities such as Pella and Oskaloosa and serving as a key regional transportation corridor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa Highway 163 canonical | 5 |
| Iowa Highway 163 (overlapping segment near Ottumwa) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T687150 — 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 Highway 163 Context triple: [Marion County, Iowa, hasMajorHighway, Iowa Highway 163]
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A.
Iowa Highway 192
Iowa Highway 192 is a short state highway in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that primarily serves as an urban connector route linking local streets with the Interstate system.
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B.
Iowa Highway 14
Iowa Highway 14 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through central parts of the state, connecting several communities and serving as an important regional route.
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C.
Iowa Highway 58
Iowa Highway 58 is a state highway in Iowa that serves as a key north–south route through the Cedar Falls–Waterloo area, connecting local traffic to major regional roads.
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D.
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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E.
Iowa Highway 10
Iowa Highway 10 is an east–west state highway in northwestern Iowa that serves communities including Orange City and connects to several major regional routes.
- 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 Highway 163 Target entity description: Iowa Highway 163 is a primary state highway in Iowa that runs southeast–northwest, connecting Des Moines with cities such as Pella and Oskaloosa and serving as a key regional transportation corridor.
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A.
Iowa Highway 192
Iowa Highway 192 is a short state highway in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that primarily serves as an urban connector route linking local streets with the Interstate system.
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B.
Iowa Highway 14
Iowa Highway 14 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through central parts of the state, connecting several communities and serving as an important regional route.
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C.
Iowa Highway 58
Iowa Highway 58 is a state highway in Iowa that serves as a key north–south route through the Cedar Falls–Waterloo area, connecting local traffic to major regional roads.
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D.
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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E.
Iowa Highway 10
Iowa Highway 10 is an east–west state highway in northwestern Iowa that serves communities including Orange City and connects to several major regional routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Burlington, Iowa
ⓘ
Des Moines, Iowa ⓘ Mount Pleasant, Iowa ⓘ Oskaloosa, Iowa ⓘ Ottumwa, Iowa ⓘ Pella, Iowa ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Des Moines–West Des Moines metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Des Moines metropolitan area
southeastern Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| easternTerminus | near Burlington, Iowa ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 235
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iowa Highway 14 ⓘ U.S. Route 34 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 61 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 63 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 65 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | four-lane divided highway on major segments ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | 65 miles per hour on rural expressway segments ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 163 ⓘ |
| highwayType | Iowa state highway ⓘ |
| isNumberedAfter | Iowa Highway 162 ⓘ |
| isNumberedBefore | Iowa Highway 164 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Iowa primary road system
ⓘ
surface form:
Iowa primary highway system
|
| passesThrough |
Des Moines County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahaska County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ Marion County, Iowa ⓘ Polk County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ Wapello County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadClassification | primary highway ⓘ |
| routeDirection | southeast–northwest ⓘ |
| serves |
access to Oskaloosa
ⓘ
access to Pella ⓘ commuter traffic between Des Moines and eastern suburbs ⓘ |
| servesAs | regional transportation corridor ⓘ |
| signingStandard | Iowa state highway shield ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transportation
ⓘ
passenger vehicle traffic ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Des Moines, Iowa ⓘ |
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 Highway 163 Description of subject: Iowa Highway 163 is a primary state highway in Iowa that runs southeast–northwest, connecting Des Moines with cities such as Pella and Oskaloosa and serving as a key regional transportation corridor.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Iowa Highway 163 (overlapping segment near Ottumwa)
subject surface form:
Marion County, Iowa