State Route 18
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State Route 18 is a major east–west highway in Washington State that connects the Auburn area to Interstate 90 near Snoqualmie, serving as a key commuter and freight corridor in the region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| State Route 18 canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4228565 — 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: State Route 18 Context triple: [Auburn, Washington, traversedBy, State Route 18]
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A.
State Route 18
State Route 18 is a California mountain highway that winds through the San Bernardino Mountains, providing a primary route to destinations such as Big Bear Lake and surrounding resort communities.
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B.
State Route 18
State Route 18 is a significant east–west state highway in northern Ohio that connects multiple communities and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
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C.
State Route 16
State Route 16 is a primary Washington state highway that connects Tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula, including via the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
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D.
State Route 16
State Route 16 is a California state highway that runs through the Sacramento Valley, connecting rural communities and agricultural areas in counties such as Colusa to the broader state highway network.
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E.
State Route 17
State Route 17 is a north–south state highway in central Washington that connects several agricultural communities and provides regional access between major routes such as Interstate 90 and U.S. Route 2.
- 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: State Route 18 Target entity description: State Route 18 is a major east–west highway in Washington State that connects the Auburn area to Interstate 90 near Snoqualmie, serving as a key commuter and freight corridor in the region.
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A.
State Route 18
State Route 18 is a significant east–west state highway in northern Ohio that connects multiple communities and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
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B.
State Route 18
State Route 18 is a California mountain highway that winds through the San Bernardino Mountains, providing a primary route to destinations such as Big Bear Lake and surrounding resort communities.
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C.
State Route 16
State Route 16 is a primary Washington state highway that connects Tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula, including via the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
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D.
State Route 16
State Route 16 is a California state highway that runs through the Sacramento Valley, connecting rural communities and agricultural areas in counties such as Colusa to the broader state highway network.
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E.
State Route 17
State Route 17 is a north–south state highway in central Washington that connects several agricultural communities and provides regional access between major routes such as Interstate 90 and U.S. Route 2.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
numbered highway in the United States
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SR 18 ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Washington (state)
ⓘ
Transportation in King County, Washington ⓘ Transportation in Pierce County, Washington ⓘ |
| connects |
Auburn, Washington
ⓘ
Interstate 90 near Snoqualmie ⓘ
linked to:
Interstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass area
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | near Snoqualmie, Washington ⓘ |
| easternTerminusJunction | Interstate 90 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
at-grade intersections on some segments
ⓘ
limited-access segments ⓘ |
| hasInterchangeWith |
Interstate 90
ⓘ
State Route 164 ⓘ State Route 167 ⓘ State Route 169 ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | divided highway on significant segments ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 18 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Washington State Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Cedar River in some segments ⓘ |
| partOf |
Washington State Route system
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington State Routes
|
| passesNear |
Covington, Washington
ⓘ
Hobart, Washington ⓘ Maple Valley, Washington ⓘ Tiger Mountain State Forest ⓘ |
| regionServed |
King County, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
King County
Pierce County, Washington ⓘ
linked to:
Pierce County
Snoqualmie Valley ⓘ
linked to:
Snoqualmie Valley region
|
| role |
commuter corridor
ⓘ
freight corridor ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| traversesTerrain | foothills of the Cascade Range ⓘ |
| usedFor |
regional commuting
ⓘ
truck freight movement ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Auburn, Washington ⓘ |
| westernTerminusJunction | State Route 167 ⓘ |
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: State Route 18 Description of subject: State Route 18 is a major east–west highway in Washington State that connects the Auburn area to Interstate 90 near Snoqualmie, serving as a key commuter and freight corridor in the region.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.