U.S. Route 278
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U.S. Route 278 is a major east–west United States highway that runs from Arkansas through the Deep South to the Atlantic coast, connecting numerous cities and rural areas along its multi-state corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Route 278 canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T534795 — 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 278 Context triple: [Richmond County, Georgia, hasMajorHighway, U.S. Route 278]
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U.S. Route 285
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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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 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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D.
U.S. Route 29
U.S. Route 29 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Florida to Virginia, connecting numerous cities across the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.
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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 278 Target entity description: U.S. Route 278 is a major east–west United States highway that runs from Arkansas through the Deep South to the Atlantic coast, connecting numerous cities and rural areas along its multi-state corridor.
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A.
U.S. Route 285
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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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 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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D.
U.S. Route 29
U.S. Route 29 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Florida to Virginia, connecting numerous cities across the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.
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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 (46)
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 278 Description of subject: U.S. Route 278 is a major east–west United States highway that runs from Arkansas through the Deep South to the Atlantic coast, connecting numerous cities and rural areas along its multi-state corridor.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.