Maine State Route 218
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Maine State Route 218 is a state highway in Maine that runs generally north–south, connecting the town of Alna to the city of Wiscasset and surrounding communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maine State Route 218 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1527092 — 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 218 Context triple: [Maine State Route system, hasComponent, Maine State Route 218]
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A.
Maine State Route 216
Maine State Route 216 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 217
Maine State Route 217 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route within the state’s numbered highway network.
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C.
Maine State Route 213
Maine State Route 213 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector road within the state's numbered route network.
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D.
Maine State Route 212
Maine State Route 212 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector between small communities in the northern part of the state.
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E.
Maine State Route 210
Maine State Route 210 is a former state highway in Maine that once served as a short connector route within the state’s numbered highway system.
- 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 218 Target entity description: Maine State Route 218 is a state highway in Maine that runs generally north–south, connecting the town of Alna to the city of Wiscasset and surrounding communities.
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A.
Maine State Route 216
Maine State Route 216 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 217
Maine State Route 217 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route within the state’s numbered highway network.
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C.
Maine State Route 213
Maine State Route 213 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector road within the state's numbered route network.
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D.
Maine State Route 212
Maine State Route 212 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a regional connector between small communities in the northern part of the state.
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E.
Maine State Route 210
Maine State Route 210 is a former state highway in Maine that once served as a short connector route within the state’s numbered highway system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ME 218
ⓘ
SR 218 ⓘ |
| accessControl | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| connects |
Alna, Maine
ⓘ
Wiscasset, Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| function | connects Alna to Wiscasset and surrounding communities ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | South ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | North ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
Maine State Route System
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine State Route system
|
| locatedIn | Lincoln County, Maine ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| partOf | transportation network of Lincoln County, Maine ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 218 ⓘ |
| serves |
town of Alna, Maine
ⓘ
town of Wiscasset, Maine ⓘ
linked to:
Wiscasset, Maine
|
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Wiscasset, Maine ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | Alna, Maine ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local traffic
ⓘ
regional traffic ⓘ |
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 218 Description of subject: Maine State Route 218 is a state highway in Maine that runs generally north–south, connecting the town of Alna to the city of Wiscasset and surrounding communities.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.