Maryland Route 108
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Maryland Route 108 is a state highway in central Maryland that runs east–west through Howard and Montgomery counties, connecting communities such as Olney, Columbia, and Elkridge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maryland Route 108 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6112440 — 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: Maryland Route 108 Context triple: [Elkridge, servedByHighway, Maryland Route 108]
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A.
Maryland Route 103
Maryland Route 103 is a state highway in Maryland that runs through Howard and Anne Arundel counties, providing local access between communities such as Elkridge and Ellicott City and connecting with major routes like U.S. Route 1 and Interstate 95.
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B.
Maryland Route 118
Maryland Route 118 is a state highway in Montgomery County, Maryland, serving the Germantown area and connecting local roads to major routes including Interstate 270.
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C.
Maryland Route 175
Maryland Route 175 is a state highway in central Maryland that connects the Columbia and Jessup areas to major routes serving Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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D.
Maryland Route 189
Maryland Route 189 is a state highway in Montgomery County that serves as a key connector through the Potomac area to surrounding communities and major routes.
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E.
Maryland Route 139
Maryland Route 139 is a state highway in Maryland that runs through Baltimore, serving as a key north–south arterial route connecting central Baltimore with its northern suburbs.
- 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: Maryland Route 108 Target entity description: Maryland Route 108 is a state highway in central Maryland that runs east–west through Howard and Montgomery counties, connecting communities such as Olney, Columbia, and Elkridge.
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A.
Maryland Route 103
Maryland Route 103 is a state highway in Maryland that runs through Howard and Anne Arundel counties, providing local access between communities such as Elkridge and Ellicott City and connecting with major routes like U.S. Route 1 and Interstate 95.
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B.
Maryland Route 118
Maryland Route 118 is a state highway in Montgomery County, Maryland, serving the Germantown area and connecting local roads to major routes including Interstate 270.
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C.
Maryland Route 175
Maryland Route 175 is a state highway in central Maryland that connects the Columbia and Jessup areas to major routes serving Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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D.
Maryland Route 189
Maryland Route 189 is a state highway in Montgomery County that serves as a key connector through the Potomac area to surrounding communities and major routes.
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E.
Maryland Route 139
Maryland Route 139 is a state highway in Maryland that runs through Baltimore, serving as a key north–south arterial route connecting central Baltimore with its northern suburbs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Maryland
ⓘ
Transportation in Howard County, Maryland ⓘ Transportation in Montgomery County, Maryland ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| easternTerminus |
in Elkridge, Maryland
ⓘ
near U.S. Route 1 in Elkridge ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Maryland Route 104
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maryland Route 175 NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Route 216 NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Route 32 NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Route 32 freeway NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Route 650 NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Route 97 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 29 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration |
multilane segments
ⓘ
two-lane segments ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 108 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Maryland ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Howard County, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montgomery County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maryland State Highway Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf | Maryland State Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Ashton, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Centennial Park, Howard County NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarksville, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Highland, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard County General Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandy Spring, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeType | primary state highway ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Columbia, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elkridge, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Olney, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesAs |
connector between Columbia and Elkridge
ⓘ
connector between Olney and Columbia ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
local traffic ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | near Damascus, Maryland ⓘ |
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: Maryland Route 108 Description of subject: Maryland Route 108 is a state highway in central Maryland that runs east–west through Howard and Montgomery counties, connecting communities such as Olney, Columbia, and Elkridge.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sandy Spring, Maryland