Alberta Highway 16
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Alberta Highway 16, also known as the Yellowhead Highway, is a major east–west transportation corridor across central Alberta that forms part of the Trans-Canada Highway system.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alberta Highway 16 canonical | 1 |
| Highway 16 (Alberta) | 1 |
| Highway 16 (Yellowhead Highway in Alberta) | 1 |
| Trans-Canada Highway Yellowhead Route | 1 |
| Yellowhead Highway (Trans-Canada Highway 16) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5615638 — 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: Alberta Highway 16 Context triple: [Alberta Highway 2, hasJunctionWith, Alberta Highway 16]
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A.
Alberta Highway 2
Alberta Highway 2 is a major north–south provincial highway in Alberta, Canada, connecting several key cities and regions and serving as one of the province’s primary transportation corridors.
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B.
Alberta Highway 3
Alberta Highway 3 is a major east–west route in southern Alberta, Canada, forming part of the Crowsnest Highway and connecting communities near the British Columbia border to those in the province’s interior.
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C.
Alberta Highway 4
Alberta Highway 4 is a major north–south highway in southern Alberta, Canada, that serves as the primary route between Lethbridge and the U.S. border at Coutts.
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D.
Alberta Highway 5
Alberta Highway 5 is a provincial highway in southern Alberta, Canada, that runs through communities such as Cardston and connects them to larger regional routes and destinations.
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E.
Alberta Highway 88
Alberta Highway 88 is a provincial highway in northern Alberta, Canada, that serves as a key route connecting communities near Lesser Slave Lake and providing access to remote resource and recreational areas.
- 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: Alberta Highway 16 Target entity description: Alberta Highway 16, also known as the Yellowhead Highway, is a major east–west transportation corridor across central Alberta that forms part of the Trans-Canada Highway system.
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A.
Alberta Highway 2
Alberta Highway 2 is a major north–south provincial highway in Alberta, Canada, connecting several key cities and regions and serving as one of the province’s primary transportation corridors.
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B.
Alberta Highway 3
Alberta Highway 3 is a major east–west route in southern Alberta, Canada, forming part of the Crowsnest Highway and connecting communities near the British Columbia border to those in the province’s interior.
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C.
Alberta Highway 4
Alberta Highway 4 is a major north–south highway in southern Alberta, Canada, that serves as the primary route between Lethbridge and the U.S. border at Coutts.
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D.
Alberta Highway 5
Alberta Highway 5 is a provincial highway in southern Alberta, Canada, that runs through communities such as Cardston and connects them to larger regional routes and destinations.
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E.
Alberta Highway 88
Alberta Highway 88 is a provincial highway in northern Alberta, Canada, that serves as a key route connecting communities near Lesser Slave Lake and providing access to remote resource and recreational areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway
ⓘ
transportation corridor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Yellowhead Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
British Columbia Highway 16
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saskatchewan Highway 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminusNear | Lloydminster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsPartOfCorridor | Yellowhead Corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBypass | Anthony Henday Drive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | twinned highway on many sections ⓘ |
| hasNumberingSystem | Alberta provincial highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurface | paved ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 16 ⓘ |
| intersects |
Alberta Highway 2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alberta Highway 21 NERFINISHED ⓘ Alberta Highway 36 NERFINISHED ⓘ Alberta Highway 43 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSegmentOf | National Highway System of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Alberta Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Trans-Canada Highway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yellowhead Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear | Elk Island National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Edmonton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edson NERFINISHED ⓘ Hinton NERFINISHED ⓘ Jasper National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Lloydminster NERFINISHED ⓘ Minburn County NERFINISHED ⓘ Parkland County NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherwood Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Spruce Grove NERFINISHED ⓘ Strathcona County NERFINISHED ⓘ Vegreville NERFINISHED ⓘ Vermilion NERFINISHED ⓘ Vermilion River County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughRegion | central Alberta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| province | Alberta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeType | primary highway ⓘ |
| servesFunction |
interprovincial trade route
ⓘ
tourism corridor ⓘ |
| speedLimitTypical |
100 km/h
ⓘ
110 km/h ⓘ |
| westernTerminusNear | Jasper 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: Alberta Highway 16 Description of subject: Alberta Highway 16, also known as the Yellowhead Highway, is a major east–west transportation corridor across central Alberta that forms part of the Trans-Canada Highway system.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Trans-Canada Highway Yellowhead Route
subject surface form:
Highway 2 (Alberta)
this entity surface form:
Highway 16 (Yellowhead Highway in Alberta)
this entity surface form:
Highway 16 (Alberta)
this entity surface form:
Yellowhead Highway (Trans-Canada Highway 16)