US Highway 2
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US Highway 2 is a major east–west U.S. highway running across the northern United States, including a long stretch through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US Highway 2 canonical | 2 |
| U.S. Highway 2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T387738 — 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: US Highway 2 Context triple: [Upper Peninsula of Michigan, traversedBy, US Highway 2]
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A.
U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running east–west across the country from the Atlantic coast in Maryland to California, passing through numerous states and key cities along the way.
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B.
U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
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C.
U.S. Route 95
U.S. Route 95 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Arizona to the Canadian border in Idaho, traversing several western states.
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D.
U.S. Highway 70
U.S. Highway 70 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Atlantic coast in North Carolina across the southern states to eastern Arizona, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
Highway 27
Highway 27 is a major north–south arterial route in Ontario that serves communities such as Woodbridge and connects to key 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: US Highway 2 Target entity description: US Highway 2 is a major east–west U.S. highway running across the northern United States, including a long stretch through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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A.
U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running east–west across the country from the Atlantic coast in Maryland to California, passing through numerous states and key cities along the way.
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B.
U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
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C.
U.S. Route 95
U.S. Route 95 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Arizona to the Canadian border in Idaho, traversing several western states.
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D.
U.S. Highway 70
U.S. Highway 70 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Atlantic coast in North Carolina across the southern states to eastern Arizona, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
Highway 27
Highway 27 is a major north–south arterial route in Ontario that serves communities such as Woodbridge and connects to key regional highways.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
U.S. Highway 2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
US Highway 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | United States Numbered Highway 2-digit route ⓘ |
| connects |
New England
ⓘ
Pacific Northwest ⓘ Upper Midwest of the United States ⓘ
surface form:
Upper Midwest
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses |
Columbia River
ⓘ
Mississippi River ⓘ St. Marys River ⓘ
surface form:
St. Marys River (Michigan)
|
| designation | US 2 ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Houlton, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLongRuralSectionsIn |
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan Upper Peninsula
Montana ⓘ North Dakota ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
eastern segment of U.S. Route 2
ⓘ
western segment of U.S. Route 2 ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| lanes | two-lane in many rural sections ⓘ |
| length |
about 2,570 miles
ⓘ
about 4,136 kilometers ⓘ |
| location | northern United States ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| openedInDecade | 1920s ⓘ |
| partOf | primary east–west routes in the U.S. Highway System ⓘ |
| passesNear | Glacier National Park ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Great Lakes region
ⓘ
Great Plains ⓘ Idaho ⓘ Maine ⓘ Michigan ⓘ Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan Upper Peninsula
Minnesota ⓘ Montana ⓘ New England ⓘ New Hampshire ⓘ North Dakota ⓘ Vermont ⓘ Washington ⓘ Wisconsin ⓘ |
| region | northern tier of the contiguous United States ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| runsParallelTo | Canada–United States border ⓘ |
| westernTerminus |
Everett, Washington, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Everett, Washington
|
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: US Highway 2 Description of subject: US Highway 2 is a major east–west U.S. highway running across the northern United States, including a long stretch through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.