Pacific Highway Border Crossing
E301534
The Pacific Highway Border Crossing is a major land port of entry between the United States and Canada located in Whatcom County, Washington, serving as a key route for both commercial and passenger traffic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pacific Highway Border Crossing canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2826672 — 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: Pacific Highway Border Crossing Context triple: [Whatcom County, hasBorderCrossing, Pacific Highway Border Crossing]
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A.
Pacific Highway
The Pacific Highway is a major coastal road in eastern Australia that links Sydney and Brisbane, serving as a key transport corridor through numerous New South Wales and Queensland communities.
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B.
Warroad–Sprague Border Crossing
The Warroad–Sprague Border Crossing is an international port of entry connecting Warroad, Minnesota, in the United States with Sprague, Manitoba, in Canada, serving as a key roadway link between the two countries in that region.
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C.
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway is an extensive network of roads stretching across the Americas, connecting multiple countries from North to South.
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D.
Inter-American Highway
The Inter-American Highway is a major network of roads in Central America that forms a key segment of the larger Pan-American Highway system, connecting the United States–Mexico border to Panama.
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E.
Araniko Highway
Araniko Highway is a major roadway in Nepal that links Kathmandu with the Chinese border, serving as an important trade and transit route between the two countries.
- 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: Pacific Highway Border Crossing Target entity description: The Pacific Highway Border Crossing is a major land port of entry between the United States and Canada located in Whatcom County, Washington, serving as a key route for both commercial and passenger traffic.
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A.
Pacific Highway
The Pacific Highway is a major coastal road in eastern Australia that links Sydney and Brisbane, serving as a key transport corridor through numerous New South Wales and Queensland communities.
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B.
Warroad–Sprague Border Crossing
The Warroad–Sprague Border Crossing is an international port of entry connecting Warroad, Minnesota, in the United States with Sprague, Manitoba, in Canada, serving as a key roadway link between the two countries in that region.
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C.
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway is an extensive network of roads stretching across the Americas, connecting multiple countries from North to South.
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D.
Inter-American Highway
The Inter-American Highway is a major network of roads in Central America that forms a key segment of the larger Pan-American Highway system, connecting the United States–Mexico border to Panama.
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E.
Araniko Highway
Araniko Highway is a major roadway in Nepal that links Kathmandu with the Chinese border, serving as an important trade and transit route between the two countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
border crossing
ⓘ
land port of entry ⓘ |
| borderFunction |
collection of duties and tariffs
ⓘ
inspection of goods ⓘ inspection of travelers ⓘ |
| borderSegment |
Canada–United States border
ⓘ
surface form:
Canada–United States land border in the Pacific Northwest
|
| borderType | land border ⓘ |
| borderWith | Peace Arch Border Crossing ⓘ |
| connects |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| country |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Canadian border inspection station
ⓘ
U.S. border inspection station ⓘ |
| hasLanes |
NEXUS lanes
ⓘ
commercial vehicle lanes ⓘ passenger vehicle lanes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
Whatcom County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
North America
ⓘ
surface form:
North American continent
|
| near |
Blaine, Washington
ⓘ
Surrey, British Columbia ⓘ |
| operator |
Canada Border Services Agency
ⓘ
U.S. Customs and Border Protection ⓘ |
| partOf | Canada–United States border ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Lower Mainland
ⓘ
Metro Vancouver, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Metro Vancouver
Pacific Northwest ⓘ Whatcom County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadUsed |
British Columbia Highway 13
ⓘ
surface form:
British Columbia Highway 15
Washington State Route 543 ⓘ |
| securityRole |
customs control
ⓘ
immigration control ⓘ |
| timezone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| trafficType |
commercial traffic
ⓘ
passenger traffic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter travel
ⓘ
tourism travel ⓘ trade between Canada and the United States ⓘ |
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: Pacific Highway Border Crossing Description of subject: The Pacific Highway Border Crossing is a major land port of entry between the United States and Canada located in Whatcom County, Washington, serving as a key route for both commercial and passenger traffic.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.