East–West Tollway
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East–West Tollway is the former name of the major east–west highway in northern Illinois now designated as Interstate 88.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| East–West Tollway canonical | 1 |
| Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7070660 — 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: East–West Tollway Context triple: [Interstate 88 (Illinois), formerName, East–West Tollway]
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A.
Westpark Tollway
Westpark Tollway is a major limited-access toll road in the Houston metropolitan area that provides a key east–west commuter route through the city’s southwestern suburbs.
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B.
Tri-State Tollway
The Tri-State Tollway is a major toll highway in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the I-294 beltway around the Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
Dallas North Tollway
Dallas North Tollway is a major north–south toll road in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex that connects downtown Dallas with its northern suburbs.
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D.
State Highway 121 Tollway
State Highway 121 Tollway, now known as the Sam Rayburn Tollway, is a major toll road in the northern Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas that serves as a key east–west transportation corridor.
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E.
North Central Expressway
North Central Expressway is a major freeway in Dallas, Texas, forming part of U.S. Route 75 and serving as a key north–south transportation corridor through the city and its northern suburbs.
- 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: East–West Tollway Target entity description: East–West Tollway is the former name of the major east–west highway in northern Illinois now designated as Interstate 88.
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A.
Westpark Tollway
Westpark Tollway is a major limited-access toll road in the Houston metropolitan area that provides a key east–west commuter route through the city’s southwestern suburbs.
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B.
Tri-State Tollway
The Tri-State Tollway is a major toll highway in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the I-294 beltway around the Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
Dallas North Tollway
Dallas North Tollway is a major north–south toll road in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex that connects downtown Dallas with its northern suburbs.
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D.
State Highway 121 Tollway
State Highway 121 Tollway, now known as the Sam Rayburn Tollway, is a major toll road in the northern Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas that serves as a key east–west transportation corridor.
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E.
North Central Expressway
North Central Expressway is a major freeway in Dallas, Texas, forming part of U.S. Route 75 and serving as a key north–south transportation corridor through the city and its northern suburbs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway
ⓘ
toll road ⓘ |
| category |
Interstate 88
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Toll roads in Illinois ⓘ Transportation in Northern Illinois ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Chicago metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quad Cities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Interstate 88 (Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 294
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 355 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 39 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 80 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | multi-lane divided highway ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Northern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Illinois State Toll Highway Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1960s ⓘ |
| partOf |
Illinois Tollway system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
DeKalb County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
DuPage County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Kane County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Ogle County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Island County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Whiteside County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousDesignation | Illinois Route 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamedAs | Interstate 88 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNumber | I-88 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| surface | asphalt ⓘ |
| toll | yes ⓘ |
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: East–West Tollway Description of subject: East–West Tollway is the former name of the major east–west highway in northern Illinois now designated as Interstate 88.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Interstate 88 (Illinois)
subject surface form:
Interstate 88 (Illinois)
this entity surface form:
Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway