DC Route 4 (historic designation on portions)
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DC Route 4 (historic designation on portions) was a former numbered highway designation used on segments of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., before being replaced by the current route numbering system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| DC Route 4 (historic designation on portions) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T488264 — 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: DC Route 4 (historic designation on portions) Context triple: [Pennsylvania Avenue, routeNumber, DC Route 4 (historic designation on portions)]
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A.
Lincoln Highway (historic alignment via U.S. 40)
The Lincoln Highway (historic alignment via U.S. 40) is an early transcontinental automobile route across the United States whose later path followed much of what became U.S. Route 40, including key mountain crossings like Donner Pass.
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B.
Old U.S. Route 40
Old U.S. Route 40 is a historic transcontinental highway that once connected the U.S. East and West Coasts, serving as a major early 20th-century travel and commerce route across the country.
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C.
Overland Route (historic)
The Overland Route (historic) was a major transcontinental rail corridor in the United States that linked the Midwest to the Pacific Coast and served as a primary artery for passenger and freight traffic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
U.S. Route 93 (historically)
U.S. Route 93 (historically) was a major north–south U.S. highway in the western United States that once crossed the Colorado River at Hoover Dam, linking Arizona and Nevada as part of a key regional travel corridor.
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E.
Route 34
Route 34 is a SEPTA subway–surface trolley line in Philadelphia that runs between Center City and West Philadelphia.
- 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: DC Route 4 (historic designation on portions) Target entity description: DC Route 4 (historic designation on portions) was a former numbered highway designation used on segments of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., before being replaced by the current route numbering system.
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A.
Lincoln Highway (historic alignment via U.S. 40)
The Lincoln Highway (historic alignment via U.S. 40) is an early transcontinental automobile route across the United States whose later path followed much of what became U.S. Route 40, including key mountain crossings like Donner Pass.
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B.
Old U.S. Route 40
Old U.S. Route 40 is a historic transcontinental highway that once connected the U.S. East and West Coasts, serving as a major early 20th-century travel and commerce route across the country.
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C.
Overland Route (historic)
The Overland Route (historic) was a major transcontinental rail corridor in the United States that linked the Midwest to the Pacific Coast and served as a primary artery for passenger and freight traffic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
U.S. Route 93 (historically)
U.S. Route 93 (historically) was a major north–south U.S. highway in the western United States that once crossed the Colorado River at Hoover Dam, linking Arizona and Nevada as part of a key regional travel corridor.
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E.
Route 34
Route 34 is a SEPTA subway–surface trolley line in Philadelphia that runs between Center City and West Philadelphia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former numbered route in Washington, D.C.
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former state highway designation ⓘ |
| appliesTo | segments of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| highwaySystem |
Washington, D.C. arterial road network
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surface form:
District of Columbia numbered route system
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| locatedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| replacedBy | current Washington, D.C. route numbering system ⓘ |
| roadType | surface street route designation ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| usedOn | Pennsylvania Avenue ⓘ |
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: DC Route 4 (historic designation on portions) Description of subject: DC Route 4 (historic designation on portions) was a former numbered highway designation used on segments of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., before being replaced by the current route numbering system.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.