North Carolina Highway 26
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North Carolina Highway 26 was a former state highway designation in North Carolina that has since been renumbered or decommissioned as part of the state’s evolving road network.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NC 26 | 1 |
| North Carolina Highway 26 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7055798 — 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: North Carolina Highway 26 Context triple: [North Carolina Highway 27, isNumberedAfter, North Carolina Highway 26]
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A.
North Carolina Highway 27
North Carolina Highway 27 is an east–west state highway in North Carolina that connects several central and southern communities, including the city of Albemarle.
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B.
North Carolina Highway 22
North Carolina Highway 22 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs generally north–south, serving as a connector route through several central counties and communities.
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C.
North Carolina Highway 24
North Carolina Highway 24 is a primary east–west state highway that spans central and eastern North Carolina, connecting numerous cities, towns, and military installations across the state.
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D.
North Carolina Highway 218
North Carolina Highway 218 is a state highway in North Carolina that serves as an east–west route connecting rural communities and small towns, including areas within Union County.
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E.
North Carolina Highway 210
North Carolina Highway 210 is a state highway running across central and southeastern North Carolina, connecting rural communities, military areas, and coastal 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: North Carolina Highway 26 Target entity description: North Carolina Highway 26 was a former state highway designation in North Carolina that has since been renumbered or decommissioned as part of the state’s evolving road network.
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A.
North Carolina Highway 27
North Carolina Highway 27 is an east–west state highway in North Carolina that connects several central and southern communities, including the city of Albemarle.
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B.
North Carolina Highway 22
North Carolina Highway 22 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs generally north–south, serving as a connector route through several central counties and communities.
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C.
North Carolina Highway 24
North Carolina Highway 24 is a primary east–west state highway that spans central and eastern North Carolina, connecting numerous cities, towns, and military installations across the state.
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D.
North Carolina Highway 218
North Carolina Highway 218 is a state highway in North Carolina that serves as an east–west route connecting rural communities and small towns, including areas within Union County.
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E.
North Carolina Highway 210
North Carolina Highway 210 is a state highway running across central and southeastern North Carolina, connecting rural communities, military areas, and coastal regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former state highway ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Former state highways in North Carolina
ⓘ
North Carolina numbered highways ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina Highway System
|
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| endCause |
network reorganization
ⓘ
route renumbering ⓘ |
| governingLaw | North Carolina state transportation statutes ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | other North Carolina state highway designations ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
North Carolina State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina Highway System
|
| highwayType | state highway ⓘ |
| identificationNumber | 26 ⓘ |
| inception | 20th century ⓘ |
| isPartOf | historical North Carolina highway system ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | North Carolina highway renumbering history ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of North Carolina
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina
|
| locatedIn | North Carolina ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
North Carolina Department of Transportation
ⓘ
North Carolina State Highway Commission ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina Department of Transportation
|
| mapFeature | roadway ⓘ |
| networkRole | regional connector route ⓘ |
| partOf |
North Carolina state highway network
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina Highway System
|
| roadClassification | primary state route ⓘ |
| routeDesignation |
NC 26
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina Highway 26
|
| routeNumber | 26 ⓘ |
| status |
decommissioned
ⓘ
renumbered ⓘ |
| transportNetwork | surface road network ⓘ |
| usedFor |
motor vehicle traffic
ⓘ
road transportation ⓘ |
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: North Carolina Highway 26 Description of subject: North Carolina Highway 26 was a former state highway designation in North Carolina that has since been renumbered or decommissioned as part of the state’s evolving road network.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: North Carolina Highway 26