Interstate 196
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Interstate 196 is a spur of Interstate 96 in western Michigan that connects Grand Rapids to the Lake Michigan shoreline, serving cities such as Holland and South Haven.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 196 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T915544 — 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: Interstate 196 Context triple: [Kent County, Michigan, containsInterstateHighway, Interstate 196]
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A.
Interstate 190
Interstate 190 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in Illinois that connects the Kennedy Expressway to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
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B.
Interstate 195
Interstate 195 is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in central New Jersey that connects the New Jersey Turnpike with the Jersey Shore region.
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C.
Interstate 185
Interstate 185 is a spur route of Interstate 85 in western Georgia that connects the Columbus area to the main interstate network.
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D.
Interstate 182
Interstate 182 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in southeastern Washington that connects the cities of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick as part of the Tri-Cities area.
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E.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California that serves as a bypass and connector route through the Inland Empire region.
- 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: Interstate 196 Target entity description: Interstate 196 is a spur of Interstate 96 in western Michigan that connects Grand Rapids to the Lake Michigan shoreline, serving cities such as Holland and South Haven.
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A.
Interstate 190
Interstate 190 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in Illinois that connects the Kennedy Expressway to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
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B.
Interstate 195
Interstate 195 is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in central New Jersey that connects the New Jersey Turnpike with the Jersey Shore region.
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C.
Interstate 185
Interstate 185 is a spur route of Interstate 85 in western Georgia that connects the Columbus area to the main interstate network.
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D.
Interstate 182
Interstate 182 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in southeastern Washington that connects the cities of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick as part of the Tri-Cities area.
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E.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California that serves as a bypass and connector route through the Inland Empire region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Interstate Highway
ⓘ
spur route ⓘ |
| abbreviation | I-196 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Grand Rapids, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holland, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ South Haven, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsToBodyOfWater | Lake Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| easternTerminusCity | Grand Rapids, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDirection |
east–west
ⓘ
north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 96
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
M-6 (Michigan highway) NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 131 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 31 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea |
Grand Rapids metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holland–Zeeland metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Michigan Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentRoute | Interstate 96 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor | Grand Rapids–Lake Michigan corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear | South Haven, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Western Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 196 ⓘ |
| servesCounty |
Allegan County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kent County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottawa County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Van Buren County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesFunction | connects Grand Rapids to Lake Michigan shoreline ⓘ |
| spurOf | Interstate 96 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| westernTerminusCity | Holland, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminusNear | Lake Michigan shoreline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Interstate 196 Description of subject: Interstate 196 is a spur of Interstate 96 in western Michigan that connects Grand Rapids to the Lake Michigan shoreline, serving cities such as Holland and South Haven.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.