Iowa Highway 44
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Iowa Highway 44 is an east–west state highway in Iowa that runs across the central part of the state, connecting several rural communities and serving as a regional connector route.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa Highway 44 canonical | 11 |
| Iowa Highway 44 (nearby) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1385826 — 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 44 Context triple: [Shelby County, Iowa, hasMajorHighway, Iowa Highway 44]
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A.
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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B.
Iowa Highway 37
Iowa Highway 37 is a state highway in western Iowa that runs east–west through rural communities and farmland, connecting several small towns and local routes.
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C.
Iowa Highway 27
Iowa Highway 27 is a north–south state highway in Iowa that largely follows the Avenue of the Saints corridor, connecting several major cities across the state.
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D.
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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E.
Iowa Highway 52
Iowa Highway 52 is a state highway in northeastern Iowa that runs through communities such as Decorah, providing a key north–south route connecting local towns and regional highways.
- 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 44 Target entity description: Iowa Highway 44 is an east–west state highway in Iowa that runs across the central part of the state, connecting several rural communities and serving as a regional connector route.
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A.
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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B.
Iowa Highway 37
Iowa Highway 37 is a state highway in western Iowa that runs east–west through rural communities and farmland, connecting several small towns and local routes.
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C.
Iowa Highway 27
Iowa Highway 27 is a north–south state highway in Iowa that largely follows the Avenue of the Saints corridor, connecting several major cities across the state.
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D.
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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E.
Iowa Highway 52
Iowa Highway 52 is a state highway in northeastern Iowa that runs through communities such as Decorah, providing a key north–south route connecting local towns and regional highways.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| function | regional connector route ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | West ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | East ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 44 ⓘ |
| highwayType |
Iowa state highway
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa state highways
|
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Iowa State Highway system
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa state highways
|
| passesThrough | rural areas of Iowa ⓘ |
| roadClassification | primary highway ⓘ |
| runsAcross | central Iowa ⓘ |
| serves | rural communities in central 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 44 Description of subject: Iowa Highway 44 is an east–west state highway in Iowa that runs across the central part of the state, connecting several rural communities and serving as a regional connector route.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Iowa Highway 44