DE 273
E640865
DE 273 is a state highway in northern Delaware that connects the Maryland state line near Newark to New Castle, serving as a key east–west commuter and commercial route.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DE 273 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7076512 — 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: DE 273 Context triple: [Delaware Route 273, abbreviation, DE 273]
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A.
DE40 (Brandenburg)
DE40 (Brandenburg) is a NUTS 2 statistical region in eastern Germany that encompasses the federal state of Brandenburg, including municipalities such as Grünheide (Mark).
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B.
DE4 Brandenburg
DE4 Brandenburg is the NUTS 1 statistical region corresponding to the federal state of Brandenburg in northeastern Germany.
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C.
DE-131
DE-131 was the hull classification symbol for USS Hammann, a World War II-era U.S. Navy destroyer escort.
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D.
DE-SH
DE-SH is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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E.
DE-BW
DE-BW is the ISO 3166-2 code for the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg.
- 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: DE 273 Target entity description: DE 273 is a state highway in northern Delaware that connects the Maryland state line near Newark to New Castle, serving as a key east–west commuter and commercial route.
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A.
DE40 (Brandenburg)
DE40 (Brandenburg) is a NUTS 2 statistical region in eastern Germany that encompasses the federal state of Brandenburg, including municipalities such as Grünheide (Mark).
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B.
DE4 Brandenburg
DE4 Brandenburg is the NUTS 1 statistical region corresponding to the federal state of Brandenburg in northeastern Germany.
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C.
DE-131
DE-131 was the hull classification symbol for USS Hammann, a World War II-era U.S. Navy destroyer escort.
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D.
DE-SH
DE-SH is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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E.
DE-BW
DE-BW is the ISO 3166-2 code for the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
numbered route in Delaware
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Maryland state line
ⓘ
New Castle, Delaware NERFINISHED ⓘ city of Newark, Delaware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| directionA | West ⓘ |
| directionB | East ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | New Castle, Delaware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
east–west commercial route
ⓘ
east–west commuter route ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 273 ⓘ |
| highwayType | DE ⓘ |
| location | northern Delaware ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Delaware Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Delaware state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
New Castle County, Delaware
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newark, Delaware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
New Castle area
ⓘ
Newark area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadClassification | state highway in Delaware ⓘ |
| state | Delaware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial traffic
ⓘ
commuter traffic ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Maryland state line near Newark ⓘ |
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: DE 273 Description of subject: DE 273 is a state highway in northern Delaware that connects the Maryland state line near Newark to New Castle, serving as a key east–west commuter and commercial route.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.