Massachusetts Route 18
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Massachusetts Route 18 is a north–south state highway in southeastern Massachusetts that connects several South Shore and South Coast communities to the New Bedford area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts Route 18 canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4399851 — 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: Massachusetts Route 18 Context triple: [Massachusetts Route 140, hasJunctionWith, Massachusetts Route 18]
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A.
Massachusetts Route 17
Massachusetts Route 17 is a state highway in Massachusetts that serves as a regional connector route within the state's numbered road network.
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B.
Massachusetts Route 16
Massachusetts Route 16 is a major east–west state highway in Massachusetts that connects several Greater Boston suburbs and communities.
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C.
Massachusetts Route 12
Massachusetts Route 12 is a north–south state highway in Massachusetts that runs through central communities including Leominster, connecting local roads to major routes such as Interstate 190.
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D.
Massachusetts Route 15
Massachusetts Route 15 is a state highway in Massachusetts that serves as a regional connector route within the state's numbered road network.
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E.
Massachusetts Route 8
Massachusetts Route 8 is a north–south state highway in western Massachusetts that connects several small towns and links to major routes near the New York and Vermont borders.
- 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: Massachusetts Route 18 Target entity description: Massachusetts Route 18 is a north–south state highway in southeastern Massachusetts that connects several South Shore and South Coast communities to the New Bedford area.
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A.
Massachusetts Route 17
Massachusetts Route 17 is a state highway in Massachusetts that serves as a regional connector route within the state's numbered road network.
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B.
Massachusetts Route 16
Massachusetts Route 16 is a major east–west state highway in Massachusetts that connects several Greater Boston suburbs and communities.
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C.
Massachusetts Route 12
Massachusetts Route 12 is a north–south state highway in Massachusetts that runs through central communities including Leominster, connecting local roads to major routes such as Interstate 190.
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D.
Massachusetts Route 15
Massachusetts Route 15 is a state highway in Massachusetts that serves as a regional connector route within the state's numbered road network.
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E.
Massachusetts Route 8
Massachusetts Route 8 is a north–south state highway in western Massachusetts that connects several small towns and links to major routes near the New York and Vermont borders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
local roads in South Coast communities
ⓘ
local roads in South Shore communities ⓘ |
| connectsToCity | New Bedford, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 18 ⓘ |
| highwayType | state route ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bristol County, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Norfolk County, Massachusetts ⓘ Plymouth County, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Massachusetts Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | Massachusetts state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
South Coast region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Shore region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Abington, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Acushnet, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Bridgewater, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Freetown, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Lakeville, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Middleborough, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ New Bedford, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Weymouth, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitman, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | southeastern Massachusetts ⓘ |
| roadFunction |
commuter route
ⓘ
regional connector ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
South Coast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| terminusArea | New Bedford area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic to New Bedford area
ⓘ
regional travel in southeastern Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Massachusetts Route 18 Description of subject: Massachusetts Route 18 is a north–south state highway in southeastern Massachusetts that connects several South Shore and South Coast communities to the New Bedford area.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lakeville, Massachusetts
subject surface form:
Abington, Massachusetts