Maine State Route 240
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Maine State Route 240 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route on Mount Desert Island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maine State Route 240 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1527114 — 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 240 Context triple: [Maine State Route system, hasComponent, Maine State Route 240]
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A.
Maine State Route 204
Maine State Route 204 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County.
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B.
Maine State Route 224
Maine State Route 224 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 234
Maine State Route 234 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 238
Maine State Route 238 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route on the southern part of the state’s coastal road network.
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E.
Maine State Route 209
Maine State Route 209 is a state highway in Maine that runs through Sagadahoc County, connecting the city of Bath to coastal communities including Phippsburg and Popham Beach.
- 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 240 Target entity description: Maine State Route 240 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route on Mount Desert Island.
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A.
Maine State Route 204
Maine State Route 204 is a state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County.
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B.
Maine State Route 224
Maine State Route 224 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 234
Maine State Route 234 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 238
Maine State Route 238 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route on the southern part of the state’s coastal road network.
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E.
Maine State Route 209
Maine State Route 209 is a state highway in Maine that runs through Sagadahoc County, connecting the city of Bath to coastal communities including Phippsburg and Popham Beach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ME 240
ⓘ
SR 240 ⓘ State Route 240 ⓘ |
| connectsWithin | Mount Desert Island communities ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| function | connector route ⓘ |
| geographicRegion | New England ⓘ |
| hasAccessRestriction | public road ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
State of Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
|
| highwayType | state route ⓘ |
| isNumberedWithin | Maine state highway numbering system ⓘ |
| isShorterThan | typical primary state highways in Maine ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hancock County, Maine
ⓘ
Mount Desert Island ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | Maine State Route system ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 240 ⓘ |
| servesAs | local connector route ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| transportNetwork | Maine state highway network ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile travel
ⓘ
local 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 240 Description of subject: Maine State Route 240 is a short state highway in Maine that serves as a local connector route on Mount Desert Island.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.