New Jersey Route 27
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New Jersey Route 27 is a state highway in New Jersey that runs through central communities including Princeton, serving as a key local and regional thoroughfare.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Jersey Route 27 canonical | 22 |
| Route 27 (New Jersey) | 2 |
| NJ 27 | 1 |
| Route 27 in Franklin Township, New Jersey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T31823 — 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: New Jersey Route 27 Context triple: [Princeton, New Jersey, United States, majorRoad, New Jersey Route 27]
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A.
U.S. Route 206
U.S. Route 206 is a north–south United States highway running through central New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, connecting communities from the Delaware Valley to the New York metropolitan area.
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B.
U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, primarily through New York and New Jersey, connecting numerous cities and historic communities.
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C.
Interstate 480
Interstate 480 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a key connector between downtown Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, linking Interstate 80 and Interstate 29.
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D.
Interstate 395
Interstate 395 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the eastern United States that connects Washington, D.C. with suburban Virginia and serves as a key commuter and regional traffic corridor.
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E.
Interstate 93
Interstate 93 is a major north–south highway in the New England region of the United States, running from Massachusetts through New Hampshire into Vermont and serving as a key route for regional travel and commerce.
- 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: New Jersey Route 27 Target entity description: New Jersey Route 27 is a state highway in New Jersey that runs through central communities including Princeton, serving as a key local and regional thoroughfare.
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A.
U.S. Route 206
U.S. Route 206 is a north–south United States highway running through central New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, connecting communities from the Delaware Valley to the New York metropolitan area.
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B.
U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, primarily through New York and New Jersey, connecting numerous cities and historic communities.
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C.
Interstate 480
Interstate 480 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a key connector between downtown Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, linking Interstate 80 and Interstate 29.
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D.
Interstate 395
Interstate 395 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the eastern United States that connects Washington, D.C. with suburban Virginia and serves as a key commuter and regional traffic corridor.
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E.
Interstate 93
Interstate 93 is a major north–south highway in the New England region of the United States, running from Massachusetts through New Hampshire into Vermont and serving as a key route for regional travel and commerce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
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state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
New Jersey Route 27
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NJ 27
|
| category |
State highways in New Jersey
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Transportation in Essex County, New Jersey ⓘ Transportation in Middlesex County, New Jersey ⓘ Transportation in Somerset County, New Jersey ⓘ Transportation in Union County, New Jersey ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Garden State Parkway
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Interstate 287 ⓘ New Jersey Route 18 ⓘ New Jersey Route 21 ⓘ U.S. Route 1 ⓘ U.S. Route 206 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| follows | historic alignment of the Lincoln Highway in New Jersey ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | primarily state jurisdiction with some municipal segments ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple travel lanes in many segments ⓘ |
| hasRoadConfiguration |
suburban arterial segments
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urban arterial segments ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | varies by municipality ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 27 ⓘ |
| historicalUse | part of the Lincoln Highway ⓘ |
| location | Central New Jersey ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
State of New Jersey Department of Transportation
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surface form:
New Jersey Department of Transportation
|
| partOf | New Jersey State Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Edison, New Jersey
ⓘ
Elizabeth, New Jersey ⓘ Essex County, New Jersey ⓘ Highland Park, New Jersey ⓘ Linden, New Jersey ⓘ Metuchen, New Jersey ⓘ Middlesex County, New Jersey ⓘ New Brunswick, New Jersey ⓘ Newark, New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Newark, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Princeton, New Jersey
Rahway, New Jersey ⓘ Somerset County, New Jersey ⓘ Union County, New Jersey ⓘ |
| publicTransportUse | served by multiple local bus routes ⓘ |
| role | key corridor between central New Jersey communities ⓘ |
| routeType | state highway ⓘ |
| servesAs |
local thoroughfare
ⓘ
regional thoroughfare ⓘ |
| state |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
|
| traverses |
commercial corridors
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institutional areas near Princeton ⓘ residential areas ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
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local access to businesses ⓘ regional connectivity in central New Jersey ⓘ |
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: New Jersey Route 27 Description of subject: New Jersey Route 27 is a state highway in New Jersey that runs through central communities including Princeton, serving as a key local and regional thoroughfare.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Route 27 (New Jersey)
this entity surface form:
NJ 27
this entity surface form:
Route 27 in Franklin Township, New Jersey
subject surface form:
County Route 514 (New Jersey)
this entity surface form:
Route 27 (New Jersey)