Iowa Highway 71
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Iowa Highway 71 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through the western part of the state, connecting several rural communities and major routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa Highway 71 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5502760 — 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 71 Context triple: [Iowa state highways, hasComponent, Iowa Highway 71]
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A.
Iowa Highway 70
Iowa Highway 70 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south through Muscatine County, connecting local communities to the broader state road network.
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B.
Iowa Highway 75
Iowa Highway 75 is a primary north–south state highway in northwestern Iowa that serves as a key route through communities such as Rock Valley and connects to major regional corridors.
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C.
Iowa Highway 7
Iowa Highway 7 is a former state highway in northwestern Iowa that once connected the Sioux City area to the Fort Dodge region.
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D.
Iowa Highway 17
Iowa Highway 17 is a north–south state highway in Iowa that connects several small communities and rural areas in the central part of the state.
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E.
Iowa Highway 21
Iowa Highway 21 is a state highway in Iowa that runs north–south through the central part of the state, connecting several small towns and rural areas to 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 71 Target entity description: Iowa Highway 71 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through the western part of the state, connecting several rural communities and major routes.
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A.
Iowa Highway 70
Iowa Highway 70 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south through Muscatine County, connecting local communities to the broader state road network.
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B.
Iowa Highway 75
Iowa Highway 75 is a primary north–south state highway in northwestern Iowa that serves as a key route through communities such as Rock Valley and connects to major regional corridors.
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C.
Iowa Highway 7
Iowa Highway 7 is a former state highway in northwestern Iowa that once connected the Sioux City area to the Fort Dodge region.
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D.
Iowa Highway 17
Iowa Highway 17 is a north–south state highway in Iowa that connects several small communities and rural areas in the central part of the state.
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E.
Iowa Highway 21
Iowa Highway 21 is a state highway in Iowa that runs north–south through the central part of the state, connecting several small towns and rural areas to larger regional routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
agricultural areas to major routes
ⓘ
rural communities in western Iowa ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
Interstate 80
ⓘ
U.S. Route 20 ⓘ U.S. Route 30 ⓘ U.S. Route 59 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 6 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasDirection |
Direction A: South
ⓘ
Direction B: North ⓘ |
| hasJunction |
junctions with multiple Iowa state highways
ⓘ
junctions with multiple U.S. Highways ⓘ |
| hasLanes |
multi-lane segments
ⓘ
two-lane segments ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 71 ⓘ |
| highwayType | Iowa state highway ⓘ |
| isNumberedParallelTo | U.S. Route 71 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | regional north–south corridor in western Iowa ⓘ |
| isSignedAs | Iowa 71 ⓘ |
| locationInState | western Iowa ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| partOf |
Iowa state highway system
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa state highways
|
| passesThrough |
Atlantic, Iowa
ⓘ
Audubon County, Iowa ⓘ Buena Vista County, Iowa ⓘ Carroll County, Iowa ⓘ Carroll, Iowa ⓘ Cass County, Iowa ⓘ Pottawattamie County, Iowa ⓘ Sac County, Iowa ⓘ Shelby County, Iowa ⓘ Storm Lake, Iowa ⓘ |
| regionServed | western part of Iowa ⓘ |
| roadFunction | primary arterial route ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeDesignation | IA 71 ⓘ |
| serves | local traffic in western Iowa ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transport by truck
ⓘ
passenger vehicle traffic ⓘ |
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 71 Description of subject: Iowa Highway 71 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through the western part of the state, connecting several rural communities and major routes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.