Maine State Route 242
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Maine State Route 242 is a short state highway in northern Maine that provides access to the summit area of Mars Hill Mountain and connects local communities in Aroostook County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maine State Route 242 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1527116 — 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 242 Context triple: [Maine State Route system, hasComponent, Maine State Route 242]
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A.
Maine State Route 241
Maine State Route 241 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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B.
Maine State Route 240
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 242 Target entity description: Maine State Route 242 is a short state highway in northern Maine that provides access to the summit area of Mars Hill Mountain and connects local communities in Aroostook County.
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A.
Maine State Route 241
Maine State Route 241 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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B.
Maine State Route 240
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ME 242
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SR 242 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Roads in Maine
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State highways in Maine ⓘ Transportation in Aroostook County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects | local communities in Aroostook County ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasJunctionWith | other Maine state routes in Aroostook County ⓘ |
| highwayType | state route ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | two-lane road ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aroostook County, Maine
NERFINISHED
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Mars Hill, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mars Hill Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| providesAccessTo |
Mars Hill Mountain ski area
NERFINISHED
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Mars Hill Mountain summit area ⓘ |
| regionServed | northern Maine ⓘ |
| roadFunction |
access road to recreational area
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local connector route ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile traffic
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local access 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 242 Description of subject: Maine State Route 242 is a short state highway in northern Maine that provides access to the summit area of Mars Hill Mountain and connects local communities in Aroostook County.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.