North Carolina Highway 42
E447878
North Carolina Highway 42 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs east–west across the central and eastern parts of the state, connecting numerous towns and major routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| North Carolina Highway 42 canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4496767 — 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: North Carolina Highway 42 Context triple: [North Carolina Highway 902, connectsWith, North Carolina Highway 42]
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A.
North Carolina Highway 54
North Carolina Highway 54 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that connects the Research Triangle’s major communities, including Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary, serving as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
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B.
North Carolina Highway 24
North Carolina Highway 24 is a primary east–west state highway that spans central and eastern North Carolina, connecting numerous cities, towns, and military installations across the state.
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C.
North Carolina Highway 27
North Carolina Highway 27 is an east–west state highway in North Carolina that connects several central and southern communities, including the city of Albemarle.
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D.
North Carolina Highway 73
North Carolina Highway 73 is an east–west state highway in North Carolina that connects several Piedmont communities and serves as a regional route for local and through traffic.
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E.
North Carolina Highway 96
North Carolina Highway 96 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs north–south through several counties, connecting small towns and communities in the central and northern part of the state.
- 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: North Carolina Highway 42 Target entity description: North Carolina Highway 42 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs east–west across the central and eastern parts of the state, connecting numerous towns and major routes.
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A.
North Carolina Highway 54
North Carolina Highway 54 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that connects the Research Triangle’s major communities, including Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary, serving as a key commuter and commercial corridor.
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B.
North Carolina Highway 24
North Carolina Highway 24 is a primary east–west state highway that spans central and eastern North Carolina, connecting numerous cities, towns, and military installations across the state.
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C.
North Carolina Highway 27
North Carolina Highway 27 is an east–west state highway in North Carolina that connects several central and southern communities, including the city of Albemarle.
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D.
North Carolina Highway 73
North Carolina Highway 73 is an east–west state highway in North Carolina that connects several Piedmont communities and serves as a regional route for local and through traffic.
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E.
North Carolina Highway 96
North Carolina Highway 96 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs north–south through several counties, connecting small towns and communities in the central and northern part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
primary state highway
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state highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Apex, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Benson, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Chatham County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Clayton, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Edgecombe County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Harnett County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 95 NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnston County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenly, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ NC Highway 39 NERFINISHED ⓘ NC Highway 50 NERFINISHED ⓘ NC Highway 55 NERFINISHED ⓘ NC Highway 96 NERFINISHED ⓘ Nash County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Pine Level, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Rocky Mount, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Samson County, North Carolina ⓘ Sanford, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Selma, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ US Route 301 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Route 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Route 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wake County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilson County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilson, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasJunctionWith |
US Route 1
NERFINISHED
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US Route 401 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Route 70 Business NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 42 ⓘ |
| highwayType | NC ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
central North Carolina
ⓘ
eastern North Carolina ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | North Carolina Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf | North Carolina state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadFunction |
connects towns in central and eastern North Carolina
ⓘ
provides access to major US and Interstate routes ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina 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: North Carolina Highway 42 Description of subject: North Carolina Highway 42 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs east–west across the central and eastern parts of the state, connecting numerous towns and major routes.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Clayton, North Carolina