Maine State Route 172
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Maine State Route 172 is a state highway in Maine that connects the towns of Ellsworth and Blue Hill in Hancock County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maine State Route 172 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1527049 — 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: Maine State Route 172 Context triple: [Maine State Route system, hasComponent, Maine State Route 172]
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A.
Maine State Route 171
Maine State Route 171 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route within the state’s numbered highway network.
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B.
Maine State Route 170
Maine State Route 170 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector for local communities within the state’s road network.
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C.
Maine State Route 169
Maine State Route 169 is a state highway in Maine that connects the communities of Springfield and Danforth in the eastern part of the state.
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D.
Maine State Route 152
Maine State Route 152 is a state highway in Maine that runs through central communities including Palmyra, providing a regional north–south transportation corridor.
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E.
Maine State Route 167
Maine State Route 167 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector route in the northern part of the state.
- 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: Maine State Route 172 Target entity description: Maine State Route 172 is a state highway in Maine that connects the towns of Ellsworth and Blue Hill in Hancock County.
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A.
Maine State Route 171
Maine State Route 171 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route within the state’s numbered highway network.
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B.
Maine State Route 170
Maine State Route 170 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector for local communities within the state’s road network.
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C.
Maine State Route 169
Maine State Route 169 is a state highway in Maine that connects the communities of Springfield and Danforth in the eastern part of the state.
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D.
Maine State Route 152
Maine State Route 152 is a state highway in Maine that runs through central communities including Palmyra, providing a regional north–south transportation corridor.
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E.
Maine State Route 167
Maine State Route 167 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector route in the northern part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Blue Hill, Maine
ⓘ
Ellsworth, Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| easternTerminus | Ellsworth, Maine ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
ME 172
ⓘ
SR 172 ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | west ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | east ⓘ |
| hasJunctionIn |
Blue Hill, Maine
ⓘ
Ellsworth, Maine ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 172 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hancock County, Maine
ⓘ
New England ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | Maine State Route system ⓘ |
| roadClassification | secondary highway ⓘ |
| routeType | state route ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved road ⓘ |
| traverses | Hancock County, Maine ⓘ |
| usedFor | vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Blue Hill, Maine ⓘ |
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: Maine State Route 172 Description of subject: Maine State Route 172 is a state highway in Maine that connects the towns of Ellsworth and Blue Hill in Hancock County.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.