US 71
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US 71 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running through the central United States, notably traversing states such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US 71 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5170598 — 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: US 71 Context triple: [I-435, connectsTo, US 71]
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A.
US 7
US 7 is a north–south U.S. highway in New England that runs from Connecticut through Massachusetts to Vermont, serving as a major regional route.
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B.
US 41
US 41 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Miami, Florida, through the Midwest to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan near the Canadian border.
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C.
US 31
US 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
US 66
US 66 is a historic U.S. highway, famously known as "Route 66," that once ran from Chicago to Los Angeles and became an iconic symbol of American road travel and culture.
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E.
US 131
US 131 is a north–south U.S. Highway in western Michigan that runs from the Indiana state line through cities such as Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids up toward the northern Lower Peninsula.
- 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: US 71 Target entity description: US 71 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running through the central United States, notably traversing states such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa.
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A.
US 7
US 7 is a north–south U.S. highway in New England that runs from Connecticut through Massachusetts to Vermont, serving as a major regional route.
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B.
US 41
US 41 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Miami, Florida, through the Midwest to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan near the Canadian border.
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C.
US 31
US 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
US 66
US 66 is a historic U.S. highway, famously known as "Route 66," that once ran from Chicago to Los Angeles and became an iconic symbol of American road travel and culture.
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E.
US 131
US 131 is a north–south U.S. Highway in western Michigan that runs from the Indiana state line through cities such as Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids up toward the northern Lower Peninsula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| category | United States Numbered Highway 71 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Canadian border at Minnesota–Ontario line
ⓘ
Gulf Coast region ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 20
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 30 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 44 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 49 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 160 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 169 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 190 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 34 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 54 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 59 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 60 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | mostly two-lane with some freeway segments ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 71 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central United States ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| namedAfter | its route number ⓘ |
| northernTerminus | International Falls, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| northernTerminusState | Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1926 ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Interstate 49 in Arkansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 49 in Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 59 in Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 59 in Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Arkansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bemidji, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Fayetteville, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Fort Smith, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ Joplin, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Shreveport, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Sioux City, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ Texarkana, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeType | federal highway ⓘ |
| southernTerminus | Karnack, Texas area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| southernTerminusState | Texas 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: US 71 Description of subject: US 71 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running through the central United States, notably traversing states such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.