U.S. Route 87
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U.S. Route 87 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states, serving key cities and regions including parts of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 87 canonical | 3 |
| U.S. Route 87 in Texas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T622721 — 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 87 Context triple: [Front Range Urban Corridor, hasTransportationCorridor, U.S. Route 87]
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A.
U.S. Route 81
U.S. Route 81 is a major north–south United States highway running from Texas to the Canadian border, historically following much of the old Meridian Highway route.
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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 287
U.S. Route 287 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Gulf Coast of Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states to Montana, serving as an important regional freight and travel corridor.
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D.
U.S. Highway 70
U.S. Highway 70 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Atlantic coast in North Carolina across the southern states to eastern Arizona, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
U.S. Route 60
U.S. Route 60 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from Arizona to Virginia, passing through states such as New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky.
- 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 87 Target entity description: U.S. Route 87 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states, serving key cities and regions including parts of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
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A.
U.S. Route 81
U.S. Route 81 is a major north–south United States highway running from Texas to the Canadian border, historically following much of the old Meridian Highway route.
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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 287
U.S. Route 287 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Gulf Coast of Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states to Montana, serving as an important regional freight and travel corridor.
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D.
U.S. Highway 70
U.S. Highway 70 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Atlantic coast in North Carolina across the southern states to eastern Arizona, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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E.
U.S. Route 60
U.S. Route 60 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from Arizona to Virginia, passing through states such as New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway
ⓘ
numbered highway in the United States ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Great Plains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rocky Mountain states NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas Gulf Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas Panhandle NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas South Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Montana plains ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| established | 1926 ⓘ |
| followsCorridor | Front Range Urban Corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 10 in San Antonio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 15 in Great Falls NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 27 in Lubbock NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 40 in Amarillo NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 90 in Billings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 87 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
state departments of transportation of Colorado
ⓘ
state departments of transportation of Montana ⓘ state departments of transportation of New Mexico ⓘ state departments of transportation of Texas ⓘ state departments of transportation of Wyoming ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Interstate 25
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Route 10 (historic alignment in Montana) NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 287 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 85 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 89 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Amarillo, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Big Spring, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Billings, Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ Casper, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Cheyenne, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Colorado Springs, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Denver, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Falls, Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewistown, Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ Lubbock, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Pueblo, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Raton, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ San Angelo, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ San Antonio, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Trinidad, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Colorado
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusA | Port Lavaca, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusB | Havre, Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 87 Description of subject: U.S. Route 87 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Texas through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states, serving key cities and regions including parts of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 87 in Texas