California State Route 99
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California State Route 99 is a major north–south highway running through California’s Central Valley, connecting numerous agricultural and urban communities between Bakersfield and Sacramento.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| California State Route 99 canonical | 30 |
| California State Route 99 (nearby) | 1 |
| California State Route 99 in Manteca | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T844205 — 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: California State Route 99 Context triple: [Merced, hasMajorHighway, California State Route 99]
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A.
California State Route 89
California State Route 89 is a scenic north–south highway in California that winds through the Sierra Nevada and other mountainous regions, connecting small communities, national forests, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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B.
California State Route 58
California State Route 58 is a major east–west highway in California that connects the Central Coast and the southern Central Valley to the Mojave Desert and Interstate 15 near Barstow.
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C.
California State Route 36
California State Route 36 is a scenic, winding east–west highway in Northern California that connects the Pacific coast near Fortuna to inland communities through rugged, forested terrain.
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D.
California State Route 28
California State Route 28 is a scenic state highway that runs along the north shore of Lake Tahoe, connecting communities in the Sierra Nevada region of California.
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E.
California State Route 14
California State Route 14 is a major north–south freeway in Southern California that connects the Los Angeles area to the Antelope Valley and the western Mojave Desert.
- 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: California State Route 99 Target entity description: California State Route 99 is a major north–south highway running through California’s Central Valley, connecting numerous agricultural and urban communities between Bakersfield and Sacramento.
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A.
California State Route 89
California State Route 89 is a scenic north–south highway in California that winds through the Sierra Nevada and other mountainous regions, connecting small communities, national forests, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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B.
California State Route 58
California State Route 58 is a major east–west highway in California that connects the Central Coast and the southern Central Valley to the Mojave Desert and Interstate 15 near Barstow.
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C.
California State Route 36
California State Route 36 is a scenic, winding east–west highway in Northern California that connects the Pacific coast near Fortuna to inland communities through rugged, forested terrain.
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D.
California State Route 28
California State Route 28 is a scenic state highway that runs along the north shore of Lake Tahoe, connecting communities in the Sierra Nevada region of California.
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E.
California State Route 14
California State Route 14 is a major north–south freeway in Southern California that connects the Los Angeles area to the Antelope Valley and the western Mojave Desert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
limited-access road
ⓘ
north–south highway ⓘ state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
CA 99
ⓘ
SR 99 ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 5
ⓘ
Interstate 80 ⓘ State Route 120 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 41 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 58 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 50 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Valley
ⓘ
Fresno County NERFINISHED ⓘ Kern County NERFINISHED ⓘ Madera County, California ⓘ
surface form:
Madera County
Merced County NERFINISHED ⓘ Sacramento County ⓘ San Joaquin County NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanislaus County NERFINISHED ⓘ Tulare County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Caltrans
ⓘ
surface form:
California Department of Transportation
|
| northernTerminus | Sacramento ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Interstate 5 ⓘ |
| partOf |
California state highway system
ⓘ
surface form:
California State Highway System
|
| passesThrough |
Bakersfield
ⓘ
Delano ⓘ Fresno ⓘ Lodi ⓘ Madera ⓘ Merced ⓘ Modesto ⓘ Sacramento ⓘ Stockton ⓘ Tulare, California ⓘ
surface form:
Tulare
Turlock ⓘ Visalia, California ⓘ
surface form:
Visalia
|
| primaryFunction |
connects agricultural communities
ⓘ
connects urban communities ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Sacramento Valley
ⓘ
San Joaquin Valley ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 99 ⓘ |
| southernTerminus | Bakersfield ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| usedFor |
commuter travel
ⓘ
freight transportation ⓘ intercity 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: California State Route 99 Description of subject: California State Route 99 is a major north–south highway running through California’s Central Valley, connecting numerous agricultural and urban communities between Bakersfield and Sacramento.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ceres, California
subject surface form:
U.S. Route 99
this entity surface form:
California State Route 99 (nearby)
subject surface form:
California State Route 120
this entity surface form:
California State Route 99 in Manteca