Michigan State Highway 40
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Michigan State Highway 40 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that serves as a regional connector in the western part of the state, linking communities and facilitating access to larger highways and local destinations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michigan State Highway 40 canonical | 2 |
| Michigan State Highway M-40 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4778047 — 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: Michigan State Highway 40 Context triple: [City of Holland, Michigan, transportation, Michigan State Highway 40]
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A.
Michigan State Highway 35
Michigan State Highway 35 is a former state trunkline route in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that once ran along the western shore of Green Bay, connecting communities such as Menominee and Escanaba.
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B.
Michigan State Highway 50
Michigan State Highway 50 is a state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that serves as an important east–west route connecting communities in and around Jackson.
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C.
Michigan State Highway 106
Michigan State Highway 106 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that primarily serves the Jackson County area, connecting local communities and providing regional access.
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D.
Michigan State Highway 60
Michigan State Highway 60 is an east–west state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that connects several communities between the Jackson and Three Rivers areas.
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E.
Wisconsin Highway 44
Wisconsin Highway 44 is a state highway in Wisconsin that runs generally north–south, connecting several communities in the east-central 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: Michigan State Highway 40 Target entity description: Michigan State Highway 40 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that serves as a regional connector in the western part of the state, linking communities and facilitating access to larger highways and local destinations.
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A.
Michigan State Highway 35
Michigan State Highway 35 is a former state trunkline route in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that once ran along the western shore of Green Bay, connecting communities such as Menominee and Escanaba.
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B.
Michigan State Highway 50
Michigan State Highway 50 is a state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that serves as an important east–west route connecting communities in and around Jackson.
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C.
Michigan State Highway 106
Michigan State Highway 106 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that primarily serves the Jackson County area, connecting local communities and providing regional access.
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D.
Michigan State Highway 60
Michigan State Highway 60 is an east–west state trunkline highway in southern Michigan that connects several communities between the Jackson and Three Rivers areas.
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E.
Wisconsin Highway 44
Wisconsin Highway 44 is a state highway in Wisconsin that runs generally north–south, connecting several communities in the east-central part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ state trunkline highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | M-40 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| accessControl | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| category |
Roads in Michigan
ⓘ
State highways in Michigan ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
larger highways in Michigan
ⓘ
local roads in western Michigan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| function |
links communities in western Michigan
ⓘ
provides access to larger highways ⓘ provides access to local destinations ⓘ regional connector route ⓘ |
| governingLaw | Michigan state transportation regulations ⓘ |
| hasLanes | two-lane segments ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 40 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Michigan state trunkline highway system ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | State of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Michigan Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | state highway network of Michigan ⓘ |
| regionServed | western Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| speedRegulation | subject to Michigan state speed limits ⓘ |
| surface | asphalt ⓘ |
| transportNetworkRole | feeder route to higher-capacity highways ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile traffic
ⓘ
local and regional travel ⓘ truck 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: Michigan State Highway 40 Description of subject: Michigan State Highway 40 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that serves as a regional connector in the western part of the state, linking communities and facilitating access to larger highways and local destinations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
City of Holland, Michigan
subject surface form:
Salem Township, Allegan County, Michigan
this entity surface form:
Michigan State Highway M-40