Interstate 540 (Arkansas)
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Interstate 540 (Arkansas) is a former Interstate highway designation in northwest Arkansas that served as a key north–south freeway through the Fort Smith and Fayetteville areas before being largely re-signed as part of Interstate 49.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 49 corridor in Northwest Arkansas | 1 |
| Interstate 540 (Arkansas) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4714858 — 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 540 (Arkansas) Context triple: [Interstate 49, hasJunctionWith, Interstate 540 (Arkansas)]
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A.
Interstate 540
Interstate 540 is a beltway highway serving the Raleigh metropolitan area in North Carolina, facilitating regional traffic flow and suburban connectivity.
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B.
Interstate 440
Interstate 440 is a beltway spur of Interstate 40 that forms part of the freeway loop around Little Rock, Arkansas, improving traffic flow and access to the city and its airport.
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C.
Interstate 459
Interstate 459 is a bypass loop around Birmingham, Alabama, that helps divert traffic from the city’s main interstate corridors.
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D.
Interstate 140
Interstate 140 is a short auxiliary Interstate highway serving the Knoxville, Tennessee area, providing a connector route around the city.
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E.
Interstate 72
Interstate 72 is a U.S. highway running through parts of Illinois and Missouri, providing an important east–west transportation corridor in the Midwest.
- 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 540 (Arkansas) Target entity description: Interstate 540 (Arkansas) is a former Interstate highway designation in northwest Arkansas that served as a key north–south freeway through the Fort Smith and Fayetteville areas before being largely re-signed as part of Interstate 49.
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A.
Interstate 540
Interstate 540 is a beltway highway serving the Raleigh metropolitan area in North Carolina, facilitating regional traffic flow and suburban connectivity.
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B.
Interstate 440
Interstate 440 is a beltway spur of Interstate 40 that forms part of the freeway loop around Little Rock, Arkansas, improving traffic flow and access to the city and its airport.
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C.
Interstate 459
Interstate 459 is a bypass loop around Birmingham, Alabama, that helps divert traffic from the city’s main interstate corridors.
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D.
Interstate 140
Interstate 140 is a short auxiliary Interstate highway serving the Knoxville, Tennessee area, providing a connector route around the city.
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E.
Interstate 72
Interstate 72 is a U.S. highway running through parts of Illinois and Missouri, providing an important east–west transportation corridor in the Midwest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former Interstate Highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | I-540 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Interstate Highways in Arkansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Transportation in Benton County, Arkansas ⓘ Transportation in Sebastian County, Arkansas ⓘ Transportation in Washington County, Arkansas ⓘ |
| completed | late 1990s ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Arkansas Highway 102
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Arkansas Highway 112 NERFINISHED ⓘ Arkansas Highway 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ Arkansas Highway 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ Arkansas Highway 22 NERFINISHED ⓘ Arkansas Highway 255 NERFINISHED ⓘ Arkansas Highway 264 NERFINISHED ⓘ Arkansas Highway 265 NERFINISHED ⓘ Arkansas Highway 45 NERFINISHED ⓘ Arkansas Highway 59 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 49 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 412 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 62 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 71 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| formerDesignationOf | segment of Interstate 49 (Arkansas) ⓘ |
| formerNorthernTerminus | Bella Vista area near Missouri state line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerSouthernTerminus | Interstate 40 near Van Buren ⓘ |
| function | freeway ⓘ |
| hasStructure | Bobby Hopper Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayType | Interstate Highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northwest Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Arkansas Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1990s ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Benton County, Arkansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crawford County, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Sebastian County, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington County, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Interstate 49 (Arkansas) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | major regional corridor in northwest Arkansas ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 540 ⓘ |
| servedArea |
Bentonville, Arkansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fayetteville, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Fort Smith, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Rogers, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Springdale, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Van Buren, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Arkansas ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| terrain | Ozark Mountains 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 540 (Arkansas) Description of subject: Interstate 540 (Arkansas) is a former Interstate highway designation in northwest Arkansas that served as a key north–south freeway through the Fort Smith and Fayetteville areas before being largely re-signed as part of Interstate 49.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Interstate 49 corridor in Northwest Arkansas