Massachusetts Route 38
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Massachusetts Route 38 is a state highway in Massachusetts that runs generally north–south through communities such as Woburn, Wilmington, and Lowell, serving as a key local arterial route.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts Route 38 canonical | 10 |
| Route 38 (Massachusetts) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1779278 — 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: Massachusetts Route 38 Context triple: [Massachusetts Route 16, hasJunctionWith, Massachusetts Route 38]
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A.
Massachusetts Route 28
Massachusetts Route 28 is a major north–south state highway in Massachusetts that runs from the Cape Cod region through Boston and up to the New Hampshire border.
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B.
Massachusetts Route 85
Massachusetts Route 85 is a north–south state highway in eastern Massachusetts that runs through communities such as Milford, Hopkinton, and Hudson, providing local access parallel to Interstate 495.
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C.
Massachusetts Route 3
Massachusetts Route 3 is a major north–south state highway in Massachusetts that connects the Boston metropolitan area with the South Shore and Cape Cod.
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D.
Massachusetts Route 24
Massachusetts Route 24 is a major north–south highway in southeastern Massachusetts that links the Boston metropolitan area with cities such as Brockton, Taunton, and Fall River.
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E.
Massachusetts Route 3A
Massachusetts Route 3A is a state highway in eastern Massachusetts that runs roughly parallel to Route 3, serving numerous coastal and suburban communities from the South Shore through the Boston area to the Merrimack Valley.
- 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: Massachusetts Route 38 Target entity description: Massachusetts Route 38 is a state highway in Massachusetts that runs generally north–south through communities such as Woburn, Wilmington, and Lowell, serving as a key local arterial route.
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A.
Massachusetts Route 28
Massachusetts Route 28 is a major north–south state highway in Massachusetts that runs from the Cape Cod region through Boston and up to the New Hampshire border.
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B.
Massachusetts Route 85
Massachusetts Route 85 is a north–south state highway in eastern Massachusetts that runs through communities such as Milford, Hopkinton, and Hudson, providing local access parallel to Interstate 495.
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C.
Massachusetts Route 3
Massachusetts Route 3 is a major north–south state highway in Massachusetts that connects the Boston metropolitan area with the South Shore and Cape Cod.
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D.
Massachusetts Route 24
Massachusetts Route 24 is a major north–south highway in southeastern Massachusetts that links the Boston metropolitan area with cities such as Brockton, Taunton, and Fall River.
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E.
Massachusetts Route 3A
Massachusetts Route 3A is a state highway in eastern Massachusetts that runs roughly parallel to Route 3, serving numerous coastal and suburban communities from the South Shore through the Boston area to the Merrimack Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 495
ⓘ
Interstate 93 ⓘ Interstate 95 ⓘ Massachusetts Route 110 NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 113 NERFINISHED ⓘ Route 128 ⓘ
surface form:
Massachusetts Route 128
Massachusetts Route 3A NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Route 62 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses | Merrimack River ⓘ |
| generalDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| hasIntersectionType |
at-grade intersections
ⓘ
signalized intersections ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple travel lanes on significant segments ⓘ |
| hasTraffic | high commuter volumes during peak hours ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 38 ⓘ |
| highwayType | state route ⓘ |
| isNumberedWithin | Massachusetts state route numbering system ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Middlesex County, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Massachusetts Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | Massachusetts state highway system ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Andover
ⓘ
surface form:
Andover, Massachusetts
Billerica, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Dracut, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Lowell, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Medford, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Somerville, Massachusetts ⓘ Tewksbury, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilmington, Massachusetts ⓘ Winchester, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Woburn, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| region |
Greater Boston
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Boston area
Merrimack Valley ⓘ |
| roadFunction | principal arterial in several communities ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| serves |
commercial corridors
ⓘ
residential neighborhoods ⓘ |
| servesAs | local arterial road ⓘ |
| speedLimitType | posted speed limits varying by municipality ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| urbanOrRural | primarily urban and suburban ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
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local access ⓘ |
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: Massachusetts Route 38 Description of subject: Massachusetts Route 38 is a state highway in Massachusetts that runs generally north–south through communities such as Woburn, Wilmington, and Lowell, serving as a key local arterial route.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wilmington, Massachusetts
this entity surface form:
Route 38 (Massachusetts)