US 61
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US 61 is a major north–south United States highway running along the Mississippi River corridor, linking New Orleans to the Upper Midwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US 61 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5877390 — 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 61 Context triple: [IA 38, connectsWith, US 61]
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A.
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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B.
US 71
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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C.
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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D.
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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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 61 Target entity description: US 61 is a major north–south United States highway running along the Mississippi River corridor, linking New Orleans to the Upper Midwest.
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A.
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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B.
US 71
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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C.
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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D.
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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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 (48)
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 61 Description of subject: US 61 is a major north–south United States highway running along the Mississippi River corridor, linking New Orleans to the Upper Midwest.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.