U.S. Route 285
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U.S. Route 285 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through New Mexico into Colorado, serving as an important regional corridor for travel and commerce in the American Southwest.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 285 canonical | 6 |
| U.S. Route 285 (nearby access) | 1 |
| U.S. Route 285 in New Mexico | 1 |
| U.S. Route 285 near Morrison | 1 |
| US 84/US 285 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T401040 — 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: U.S. Route 285 Context triple: [Eastern New Mexico, transportInfrastructure, U.S. Route 285]
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A.
U.S. Route 275
U.S. Route 275 is a north–south U.S. Highway in the central United States that runs through parts of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri, serving as a regional connector between rural communities and larger transportation corridors.
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B.
U.S. Route 85
U.S. Route 85 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central and Rocky Mountain states to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
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C.
U.S. Route 501
U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
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D.
U.S. Route 287
U.S. Route 287 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Gulf Coast of Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states to Montana, serving as an important regional freight and travel corridor.
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E.
U.S. Route 250
U.S. Route 250 is a U.S. highway running generally northeast–southwest through several states in the eastern United States, connecting rural areas, small towns, and regional cities.
- 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: U.S. Route 285 Target entity description: U.S. Route 285 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through New Mexico into Colorado, serving as an important regional corridor for travel and commerce in the American Southwest.
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A.
U.S. Route 275
U.S. Route 275 is a north–south U.S. Highway in the central United States that runs through parts of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri, serving as a regional connector between rural communities and larger transportation corridors.
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B.
U.S. Route 85
U.S. Route 85 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central and Rocky Mountain states to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
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C.
U.S. Route 501
U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
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D.
U.S. Route 287
U.S. Route 287 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Gulf Coast of Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states to Montana, serving as an important regional freight and travel corridor.
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E.
U.S. Route 250
U.S. Route 250 is a U.S. highway running generally northeast–southwest through several states in the eastern United States, connecting rural areas, small towns, and regional cities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: U.S. Route 285 Description of subject: U.S. Route 285 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through New Mexico into Colorado, serving as an important regional corridor for travel and commerce in the American Southwest.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eastern New Mexico
subject surface form:
Centennial, Colorado
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 285 (nearby access)
subject surface form:
Carlsbad, New Mexico
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 285 in New Mexico
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 285 near Morrison