US 20
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US 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the country’s longest transcontinental routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US 20 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5877392 — 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 20 Context triple: [IA 38, connectsWith, US 20]
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A.
US 202
US 202 is a U.S. highway running through the northeastern United States, connecting cities in states such as Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and beyond.
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B.
US 201
US 201 is a U.S. highway in Maine that runs north–south from Brunswick to the Canadian border, serving as a key route through the state's interior.
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C.
US 1
US 1 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, serving as a key route through numerous states and cities from Florida to Maine.
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D.
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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E.
US 1/9
US 1/9 is a concurrent section of U.S. Routes 1 and 9 that runs through northern New Jersey, serving as a major urban arterial and connector to routes into New York City.
- 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 20 Target entity description: US 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the country’s longest transcontinental routes.
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A.
US 202
US 202 is a U.S. highway running through the northeastern United States, connecting cities in states such as Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and beyond.
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B.
US 201
US 201 is a U.S. highway in Maine that runs north–south from Brunswick to the Canadian border, serving as a key route through the state's interior.
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C.
US 1
US 1 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast, serving as a key route through numerous states and cities from Florida to Maine.
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D.
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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E.
US 1/9
US 1/9 is a concurrent section of U.S. Routes 1 and 9 that runs through northern New Jersey, serving as a major urban arterial and connector to routes into New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| category | U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Atlantic coast
ⓘ
New England NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Northwest NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific coast ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses |
Continental Divide
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ Missouri River NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohio River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Boston, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| easternTerminusState | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| establishedIn | 1926 ⓘ |
| hasTerminusCity |
Boston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 20 ⓘ |
| isAmong | longest roads in the United States ⓘ |
| length | over 3,300 miles ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Interstate 90 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesNear | Yellowstone National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Chicago metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cleveland metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Toledo metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Midwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New England NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| routeType | primary U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| serves |
mid-sized cities
ⓘ
rural areas ⓘ small towns ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Newport, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminusState | Oregon 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 20 Description of subject: US 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the country’s longest transcontinental routes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.