Iowa Highway 48
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Iowa Highway 48 is a state highway in southwestern Iowa that runs north–south, connecting several small communities and serving as a regional route between local roads and larger state and U.S. highways.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa Highway 48 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5502759 — 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: Iowa Highway 48 Context triple: [Iowa state highways, hasComponent, Iowa Highway 48]
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A.
Iowa Highway 4
Iowa Highway 4 is a north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through the western part of the state, connecting several small towns and rural areas.
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B.
Iowa Highway 58
Iowa Highway 58 is a state highway in Iowa that serves as a key north–south route through the Cedar Falls–Waterloo area, connecting local traffic to major regional roads.
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C.
Iowa Highway 52
Iowa Highway 52 is a state highway in northeastern Iowa that runs through communities such as Decorah, providing a key north–south route connecting local towns and regional highways.
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D.
Iowa Highway 14
Iowa Highway 14 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through central parts of the state, connecting several communities and serving as an important regional route.
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E.
Iowa Highway 38
Iowa Highway 38 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south through several communities, connecting rural areas with larger regional routes.
- 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: Iowa Highway 48 Target entity description: Iowa Highway 48 is a state highway in southwestern Iowa that runs north–south, connecting several small communities and serving as a regional route between local roads and larger state and U.S. highways.
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A.
Iowa Highway 4
Iowa Highway 4 is a north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through the western part of the state, connecting several small towns and rural areas.
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B.
Iowa Highway 58
Iowa Highway 58 is a state highway in Iowa that serves as a key north–south route through the Cedar Falls–Waterloo area, connecting local traffic to major regional roads.
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C.
Iowa Highway 52
Iowa Highway 52 is a state highway in northeastern Iowa that runs through communities such as Decorah, providing a key north–south route connecting local towns and regional highways.
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D.
Iowa Highway 14
Iowa Highway 14 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through central parts of the state, connecting several communities and serving as an important regional route.
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E.
Iowa Highway 38
Iowa Highway 38 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south through several communities, connecting rural areas with larger regional routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| accessControl | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| connects |
U.S. highways
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
larger state highways ⓘ local roads ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| function | regional route ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
U.S. Numbered Highways
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
other Iowa state highways ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Iowa State Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | State of Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southwestern Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | regional transportation network of Iowa ⓘ |
| roadClassification | secondary state highway ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 48 ⓘ |
| serves | small communities in southwestern Iowa ⓘ |
| surface | asphalt ⓘ |
| traverses | rural areas of Iowa ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local travel
ⓘ
regional travel ⓘ |
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: Iowa Highway 48 Description of subject: Iowa Highway 48 is a state highway in southwestern Iowa that runs north–south, connecting several small communities and serving as a regional route between local roads and larger state and U.S. highways.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.