State Route 99
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State Route 99 is a major north–south highway in Washington State that runs through Seattle and serves as a key alternative to Interstate 5.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| State Route 99 canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1903263 — 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 99 Context triple: [SoDo, Seattle, traversedBy, State Route 99]
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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.
State Route 91
State Route 91 is a major east–west freeway in Southern California that connects the Los Angeles metropolitan area with the Inland Empire and Orange County.
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C.
State Route 92
State Route 92 is an east–west state highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of California that connects Half Moon Bay on the coast to Hayward in the East Bay, crossing the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge.
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D.
State Route 89
State Route 89 is a scenic north–south California state highway that winds through the Sierra Nevada, connecting mountain communities, passes, and recreational areas.
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E.
State Route 905
State Route 905 is a California state highway in San Diego that serves as a major east–west corridor linking Interstate 5 and Interstate 805 to the U.S.–Mexico border at Otay Mesa.
- 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 99 Target entity description: State Route 99 is a major north–south highway in Washington State that runs through Seattle and serves as a key alternative to Interstate 5.
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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.
State Route 91
State Route 91 is a major east–west freeway in Southern California that connects the Los Angeles metropolitan area with the Inland Empire and Orange County.
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C.
State Route 92
State Route 92 is an east–west state highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of California that connects Half Moon Bay on the coast to Hayward in the East Bay, crossing the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge.
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D.
State Route 89
State Route 89 is a scenic north–south California state highway that winds through the Sierra Nevada, connecting mountain communities, passes, and recreational areas.
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E.
State Route 905
State Route 905 is a California state highway in San Diego that serves as a major east–west corridor linking Interstate 5 and Interstate 805 to the U.S.–Mexico border at Otay Mesa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Washington State highway
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SR 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | Transportation in Seattle, Washington ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses |
Duwamish River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Washington Ship Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| followsFormerly | U.S. Route 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerDesignation |
Primary State Highway 1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Alaskan Way Viaduct (former)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State Route 99 Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 405
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 104 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 509 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 518 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 99 ⓘ |
| highwayType | state route ⓘ |
| isAlternativeTo | Interstate 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Seattle, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Washington State Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStructureOnRoute | State Route 99 Tunnel under downtown Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedAsStateRoute | 1964 ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Interstate 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Washington State Route system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesAlong | Alaskan Way (waterfront), Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear | Seattle–Tacoma International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Edmonds, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Everett, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Federal Way, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Fife, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Lynnwood, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Shoreline, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Tacoma, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Puget Sound region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedStructure | Alaskan Way Viaduct NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadClassification | principal arterial ⓘ |
| servesAs |
limited-access highway
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urban arterial ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Everett, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | Fife, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tunnelOpened | 2019 ⓘ |
| urban | true ⓘ |
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 99 Description of subject: State Route 99 is a major north–south highway in Washington State that runs through Seattle and serves as a key alternative to Interstate 5.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Seattle industrial district
subject surface form:
Angle Lake station
subject surface form:
Des Moines, Washington