New York State Route 16
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New York State Route 16 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities, including Olean, as it runs between the Pennsylvania state line and the Buffalo area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New York State Route 16 canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4510348 — 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: New York State Route 16 Context triple: [Olean, New York, servedByHighway, New York State Route 16]
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A.
New York State Route 17
New York State Route 17 is a major east–west highway in New York that connects the Southern Tier region to the lower Hudson Valley and serves as a key corridor between Pennsylvania and the New York City metropolitan area.
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B.
New York State Route 14
New York State Route 14 is a north–south state highway in New York that runs through the Finger Lakes region, connecting communities such as Elmira with areas along Seneca Lake and extending toward Lake Ontario.
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C.
New York State Route 12
New York State Route 12 is a major north–south state highway in New York that runs through the central and northern regions, connecting communities from the Utica area toward the St. Lawrence River.
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D.
New York State Route 21
New York State Route 21 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities between the Lake Ontario shoreline and the Finger Lakes region.
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E.
New York State Route 10
New York State Route 10 is a north–south state highway in New York that runs through the central part of the state, passing rural communities, forests, and lakes in the Adirondack and Catskill regions.
- 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: New York State Route 16 Target entity description: New York State Route 16 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities, including Olean, as it runs between the Pennsylvania state line and the Buffalo area.
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A.
New York State Route 17
New York State Route 17 is a major east–west highway in New York that connects the Southern Tier region to the lower Hudson Valley and serves as a key corridor between Pennsylvania and the New York City metropolitan area.
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B.
New York State Route 14
New York State Route 14 is a north–south state highway in New York that runs through the Finger Lakes region, connecting communities such as Elmira with areas along Seneca Lake and extending toward Lake Ontario.
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C.
New York State Route 12
New York State Route 12 is a major north–south state highway in New York that runs through the central and northern regions, connecting communities from the Utica area toward the St. Lawrence River.
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D.
New York State Route 21
New York State Route 21 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities between the Lake Ontario shoreline and the Finger Lakes region.
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E.
New York State Route 10
New York State Route 10 is a north–south state highway in New York that runs through the central part of the state, passing rural communities, forests, and lakes in the Adirondack and Catskill regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Olean
ⓘ
rural communities in western New York ⓘ suburban areas near Buffalo ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 86
ⓘ
New York State Route 39 ⓘ New York State Route 400 ⓘ U.S. Route 219 ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 16 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New York ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | New York State Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
New York State Route system
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State Route System
|
| passesThrough |
Cattaraugus County
ⓘ
linked to:
Cattaraugus County, New York
Chautauqua County ⓘ Erie County ⓘ
linked to:
Erie County, New York
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| region | western New York ⓘ |
| roadClassification | primary state highway ⓘ |
| routeType | state route ⓘ |
| serves | local traffic between the Pennsylvania border and Buffalo area ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Buffalo area ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | Pennsylvania state line ⓘ |
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: New York State Route 16 Description of subject: New York State Route 16 is a north–south state highway in western New York that connects several communities, including Olean, as it runs between the Pennsylvania state line and the Buffalo area.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.