State Route 9 (Maine)
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State Route 9 (Maine) is a major east–west state highway running across Maine, commonly used as a key route between the Bangor area and the Canadian border.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| State Route 9 in Maine | 2 |
| State Route 9 (Maine) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T250296 — 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: State Route 9 (Maine) Context triple: [Interstate 395 (Bangor, Maine), connectsTo, State Route 9 (Maine)]
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A.
State Route 99
State Route 99 is a major north–south California highway running through the Central Valley and connecting cities such as Sacramento with other key urban and agricultural regions.
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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.
Massachusetts Route 2
Massachusetts Route 2 is a major east–west state highway in Massachusetts that connects the Boston area with north-central and western parts of the state.
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D.
Massachusetts Route 1A
Massachusetts Route 1A is a state highway in Massachusetts that runs parallel to U.S. Route 1, serving numerous North Shore and coastal communities between Boston and the New Hampshire border.
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E.
Massachusetts Route 129
Massachusetts Route 129 is a state highway in northeastern Massachusetts that runs through several North Shore communities, including the city of Lynn.
- 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: State Route 9 (Maine) Target entity description: State Route 9 (Maine) is a major east–west state highway running across Maine, commonly used as a key route between the Bangor area and the Canadian border.
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A.
State Route 99
State Route 99 is a major north–south California highway running through the Central Valley and connecting cities such as Sacramento with other key urban and agricultural regions.
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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.
Massachusetts Route 2
Massachusetts Route 2 is a major east–west state highway in Massachusetts that connects the Boston area with north-central and western parts of the state.
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D.
Massachusetts Route 1A
Massachusetts Route 1A is a state highway in Massachusetts that runs parallel to U.S. Route 1, serving numerous North Shore and coastal communities between Boston and the New Hampshire border.
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E.
Massachusetts Route 129
Massachusetts Route 129 is a state highway in northeastern Massachusetts that runs through several North Shore communities, including the city of Lynn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
state highway
ⓘ
transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| connects |
Bangor, Maine
ⓘ
Canadian border crossing in eastern Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Canadian border ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
Maine
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Maine
|
| hasRouteNumber | 9 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork | regional cross-border road network ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Maine
ⓘ
New England ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Maine State Route system
ⓘ
surface form:
Maine state highway system
|
| roadFunction |
key route between Bangor area and Canadian border
ⓘ
major east–west corridor ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved highway ⓘ |
| serves |
Bangor metropolitan area
ⓘ
communities near the Maine–Canada border ⓘ |
| traverses |
eastern Maine
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rural areas of Maine ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to Canada
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freight transport ⓘ regional travel ⓘ |
| westernTerminus |
Bangor, Maine
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangor, Maine area
|
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: State Route 9 (Maine) Description of subject: State Route 9 (Maine) is a major east–west state highway running across Maine, commonly used as a key route between the Bangor area and the Canadian border.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Interstate 395 (Bangor, Maine)
this entity surface form:
State Route 9 in Maine
this entity surface form:
State Route 9 in Maine