Kansas State Highway 18
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Kansas State Highway 18 is a state highway in Kansas that runs through the north-central part of the state, serving communities including Manhattan and connecting to several major regional routes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kansas Highway 18 | 5 |
| Kansas State Highway 18 canonical | 3 |
| K-18 (Kansas highway) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5064451 — 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: Kansas State Highway 18 Context triple: [Manhattan, Kansas, hasMajorRoad, Kansas State Highway 18]
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A.
Kansas State Highway 150
Kansas State Highway 150 is an east–west state highway in the Kansas City metropolitan area that serves as a key connector route in southeastern Johnson County, including the city of Leawood.
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B.
Kansas Highway 10
Kansas Highway 10 is a primary east–west state highway in northeastern Kansas that connects the Kansas City metropolitan area with the city of Lawrence.
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C.
Kansas Highway 15
Kansas Highway 15 is a north–south state highway in Kansas that runs through central communities including Abilene, connecting rural areas to major routes in the state.
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D.
Kansas Highway 7
Kansas Highway 7 is a state highway in Kansas that runs north–south through several counties, connecting local communities to major regional routes.
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E.
Kansas Highway 26
Kansas Highway 26 is a state highway in southeastern Kansas that serves as a regional connector route within Cherokee County.
- 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: Kansas State Highway 18 Target entity description: Kansas State Highway 18 is a state highway in Kansas that runs through the north-central part of the state, serving communities including Manhattan and connecting to several major regional routes.
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A.
Kansas State Highway 150
Kansas State Highway 150 is an east–west state highway in the Kansas City metropolitan area that serves as a key connector route in southeastern Johnson County, including the city of Leawood.
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B.
Kansas Highway 10
Kansas Highway 10 is a primary east–west state highway in northeastern Kansas that connects the Kansas City metropolitan area with the city of Lawrence.
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C.
Kansas Highway 15
Kansas Highway 15 is a north–south state highway in Kansas that runs through central communities including Abilene, connecting rural areas to major routes in the state.
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D.
Kansas Highway 7
Kansas Highway 7 is a state highway in Kansas that runs north–south through several counties, connecting local communities to major regional routes.
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E.
Kansas Highway 26
Kansas Highway 26 is a state highway in southeastern Kansas that serves as a regional connector route within Cherokee County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | K-18 ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Kansas
ⓘ
Transportation in Geary County, Kansas ⓘ Transportation in Jewell County, Kansas ⓘ Transportation in Lincoln County, Kansas ⓘ Transportation in Mitchell County, Kansas ⓘ Transportation in Osborne County, Kansas ⓘ Transportation in Ottawa County, Kansas ⓘ
linked to:
Ottawa County, Kansas
Transportation in Riley County, Kansas ⓘ Transportation in Smith County, Kansas ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Kansas State Highway 14
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas Highway 14
Kansas State Highway 15 ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas Highway 15
Kansas State Highway 181 ⓘ Kansas State Highway 9 ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas Highway 9
U.S. Route 24 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 77 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 81 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 70
ⓘ
U.S. Route 40 ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 18 ⓘ |
| highwayType | K ⓘ |
| isNumberedWithin | Kansas state highway numbering system ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kansas ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Kansas Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | Kansas state highway system ⓘ |
| passesNear | Fort Riley ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Manhattan, Kansas metropolitan area ⓘ |
| roadFunction |
access route to Manhattan, Kansas
ⓘ
regional connector ⓘ |
| runsThroughRegion | north-central Kansas ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Junction City, Kansas
ⓘ
Manhattan, Kansas ⓘ |
| servesCounty |
Geary County, Kansas
ⓘ
Jewell County, Kansas ⓘ Lincoln County, Kansas ⓘ Mitchell County, Kansas ⓘ Osborne County, Kansas ⓘ Ottawa County, Kansas ⓘ Riley County, Kansas ⓘ Smith County, Kansas ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved ⓘ |
| traverses | rural agricultural areas of north-central Kansas ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle 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: Kansas State Highway 18 Description of subject: Kansas State Highway 18 is a state highway in Kansas that runs through the north-central part of the state, serving communities including Manhattan and connecting to several major regional routes.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kansas State Highway 18
linked to: Kansas State Highway 18
linked to: Kansas State Highway 18
linked to: Kansas State Highway 18
linked to: Kansas State Highway 18
linked to: Kansas State Highway 18