Kansas Highway 140
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Kansas Highway 140 is a state highway in central Kansas that runs east–west, serving as a regional connector through rural communities including parts of Saline County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kansas Highway 140 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7008801 — 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: Kansas Highway 140 Context triple: [Saline County, Kansas, hasMajorHighway, Kansas Highway 140]
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A.
Kansas Highway 170
Kansas Highway 170 is a state highway in east-central Kansas that serves as a regional connector route through rural areas, including Lyon County.
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B.
Kansas Highway 47
Kansas Highway 47 is a state highway in southeastern Kansas that runs east–west through rural communities and agricultural areas, including parts of Neosho County.
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C.
Kansas Highway 156
Kansas Highway 156 is a state highway in Kansas that runs through central and western parts of the state, connecting several communities and serving as an important regional route.
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D.
Kansas State Highway 177
Kansas State Highway 177 is a north–south state highway in Kansas that runs through the Flint Hills region, connecting communities such as Manhattan and Council Grove.
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E.
Kansas Highway 15
Kansas Highway 15 is a north–south state highway in Kansas that runs through central communities including Abilene, connecting rural areas to major routes in the state.
- 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: Kansas Highway 140 Target entity description: Kansas Highway 140 is a state highway in central Kansas that runs east–west, serving as a regional connector through rural communities including parts of Saline County.
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A.
Kansas Highway 170
Kansas Highway 170 is a state highway in east-central Kansas that serves as a regional connector route through rural areas, including Lyon County.
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B.
Kansas Highway 47
Kansas Highway 47 is a state highway in southeastern Kansas that runs east–west through rural communities and agricultural areas, including parts of Neosho County.
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C.
Kansas Highway 156
Kansas Highway 156 is a state highway in Kansas that runs through central and western parts of the state, connecting several communities and serving as an important regional route.
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D.
Kansas State Highway 177
Kansas State Highway 177 is a north–south state highway in Kansas that runs through the Flint Hills region, connecting communities such as Manhattan and Council Grove.
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E.
Kansas Highway 15
Kansas Highway 15 is a north–south state highway in Kansas that runs through central communities including Abilene, connecting rural areas to major routes in the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | K-140 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 135
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
K-111 NERFINISHED ⓘ K-141 ⓘ K-156 ⓘ U.S. Route 81 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerDesignation | U.S. Route 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | regional connector ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Kansas state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty |
Ellsworth County, Kansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saline County, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | central Kansas ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Kansas Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf | Kansas state highway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Ellsworth, Kansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Salina, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Brookville, Kansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Smolan area, Kansas ⓘ rural communities ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Ellsworth County, Kansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saline County, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | two-lane highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 140 ⓘ |
| state | Kansas ⓘ |
| surface | paved ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local traffic
ⓘ
regional traffic ⓘ |
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: Kansas Highway 140 Description of subject: Kansas Highway 140 is a state highway in central Kansas that runs east–west, serving as a regional connector through rural communities including parts of Saline County.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.