Interstate 172
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Interstate 172 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in western Illinois that connects Quincy to Interstate 72, serving as a spur route to the main corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 172 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3225464 — 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 172 Context triple: [Interstate 72, hasJunctionWith, Interstate 172]
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A.
Interstate 19
Interstate 19 is a short U.S. Interstate Highway in southern Arizona that uniquely uses metric distance signs and connects Tucson to the U.S.–Mexico border at Nogales.
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B.
Interstate 190
Interstate 190 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in Illinois that connects the Kennedy Expressway to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
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C.
Interstate 190
Interstate 190 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in western New York that connects Buffalo to Niagara Falls and the Canadian border.
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D.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California that serves as a bypass and connector route through the Inland Empire region.
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E.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a beltway freeway that partially encircles the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, providing a major route for regional traffic and access to key destinations.
- 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 172 Target entity description: Interstate 172 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in western Illinois that connects Quincy to Interstate 72, serving as a spur route to the main corridor.
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A.
Interstate 19
Interstate 19 is a short U.S. Interstate Highway in southern Arizona that uniquely uses metric distance signs and connects Tucson to the U.S.–Mexico border at Nogales.
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B.
Interstate 190
Interstate 190 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in Illinois that connects the Kennedy Expressway to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
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C.
Interstate 190
Interstate 190 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in western New York that connects Buffalo to Niagara Falls and the Canadian border.
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D.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California that serves as a bypass and connector route through the Inland Empire region.
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E.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a beltway freeway that partially encircles the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, providing a major route for regional traffic and access to key destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Interstate Highway
ⓘ
auxiliary Interstate Highway ⓘ spur route ⓘ |
| abbreviation | I-172 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Auxiliary Interstate Highways
ⓘ
Interstate Highways in Illinois ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 72
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quincy, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| directionA | South ⓘ |
| directionB | North ⓘ |
| hasRouteNumberingRole | spur route of I-72 main corridor ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 172 ⓘ |
| highwayType | Interstate ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Adams County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pike County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintenanceBy | Illinois Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | western Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesAs | connector between Quincy and Interstate 72 ⓘ |
| servesCity | Quincy, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spurOf | Interstate 72 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| terminusA | near Quincy, Illinois ⓘ |
| terminusB | at Interstate 72 ⓘ |
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 172 Description of subject: Interstate 172 is a short auxiliary Interstate Highway in western Illinois that connects Quincy to Interstate 72, serving as a spur route to the main corridor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.