U.S. Route 131
E551658
U.S. Route 131 is a north–south United States highway in Michigan that runs from the Indiana state line through cities such as Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids to near Petoskey.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 131 canonical | 5 |
| US-131 | 2 |
| U.S. 131 | 1 |
| U.S. Highway 131 | 1 |
| US Highway 131 Business Route (Cadillac) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T915545 — 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: U.S. Route 131 Context triple: [Kent County, Michigan, containsU.S.Highway, U.S. Route 131]
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A.
U.S. Route 31
U.S. Route 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, connecting communities along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan down to the Gulf Coast.
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B.
U.S. Route 41
U.S. Route 41 is a major north–south United States highway running from Miami, Florida, to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, passing through several key Midwestern and Southern states.
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C.
U.S. Route 31W
U.S. Route 31W is a major north–south U.S. highway running through Kentucky and Tennessee, serving as an important regional connector between cities such as Louisville, Elizabethtown, and Nashville.
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D.
U.S. Route 169
U.S. Route 169 is a major north–south United States highway running from Minnesota to Oklahoma, serving as an important regional transportation corridor through several Midwestern states.
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E.
U.S. Route 127
U.S. Route 127 is a north–south United States highway running from Michigan through several Midwestern and Southern states, serving as a key regional transportation corridor.
- 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: U.S. Route 131 Target entity description: U.S. Route 131 is a north–south United States highway in Michigan that runs from the Indiana state line through cities such as Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids to near Petoskey.
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A.
U.S. Route 31
U.S. Route 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, connecting communities along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan down to the Gulf Coast.
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B.
U.S. Route 41
U.S. Route 41 is a major north–south United States highway running from Miami, Florida, to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, passing through several key Midwestern and Southern states.
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C.
U.S. Route 31W
U.S. Route 31W is a major north–south U.S. highway running through Kentucky and Tennessee, serving as an important regional connector between cities such as Louisville, Elizabethtown, and Nashville.
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D.
U.S. Route 169
U.S. Route 169 is a major north–south United States highway running from Minnesota to Oklahoma, serving as an important regional transportation corridor through several Midwestern states.
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E.
U.S. Route 127
U.S. Route 127 is a north–south United States highway running from Michigan through several Midwestern and Southern states, serving as a key regional transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Numbered Highway
ⓘ
north–south highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | US 131 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Indiana state highway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| directionA | South ⓘ |
| directionB | North ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 196
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 94 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 96 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 31 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Michigan Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Petoskey, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1920s ⓘ |
| partOf | National Highway System in the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Allegan County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Allegan, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Antrim County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Big Rapids, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Boyne Falls, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Cadillac, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlevoix County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Emmet County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Rapids, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalamazoo County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalamazoo, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalkaska County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalkaska, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kent County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mancelona, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Manton, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mecosta County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Missaukee County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Montcalm County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Osceola County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Otsego, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Plainwell, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockford, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Schoolcraft, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Joseph County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Three Rivers, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Wexford County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 131 ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| terminusA | Indiana state line near Constantine, Michigan ⓘ |
| terminusB | near Petoskey, Michigan ⓘ |
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: U.S. Route 131 Description of subject: U.S. Route 131 is a north–south United States highway in Michigan that runs from the Indiana state line through cities such as Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids to near Petoskey.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
US-131
this entity surface form:
US-131
this entity surface form:
U.S. 131
this entity surface form:
U.S. Highway 131
subject surface form:
Cadillac, Michigan
this entity surface form:
US Highway 131 Business Route (Cadillac)