Illinois Route 16
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Illinois Route 16 is an east–west state highway in Illinois that connects several central and southern Illinois communities, including the area around Mattoon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Illinois Route 16 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6868664 — 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: Illinois Route 16 Context triple: [Mattoon, Illinois, locatedNearHighway, Illinois Route 16]
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A.
Illinois Route 17
Illinois Route 17 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs across multiple counties, connecting rural communities and regional routes.
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B.
Illinois Route 15
Illinois Route 15 is an east–west state highway in southern Illinois that connects several communities, including the city of Belleville.
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C.
Illinois Route 19
Illinois Route 19 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through Chicago’s northwest suburbs and serves as a major arterial route for local and commuter traffic.
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D.
Illinois Route 13
Illinois Route 13 is a primary east–west state highway in southern Illinois that connects several key cities and serves as a major regional transportation corridor.
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E.
Illinois Route 21
Illinois Route 21 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through several suburbs north of Chicago, including Lincolnshire.
- 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: Illinois Route 16 Target entity description: Illinois Route 16 is an east–west state highway in Illinois that connects several central and southern Illinois communities, including the area around Mattoon.
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A.
Illinois Route 17
Illinois Route 17 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs across multiple counties, connecting rural communities and regional routes.
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B.
Illinois Route 15
Illinois Route 15 is an east–west state highway in southern Illinois that connects several communities, including the city of Belleville.
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C.
Illinois Route 19
Illinois Route 19 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through Chicago’s northwest suburbs and serves as a major arterial route for local and commuter traffic.
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D.
Illinois Route 13
Illinois Route 13 is a primary east–west state highway in southern Illinois that connects several key cities and serves as a major regional transportation corridor.
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E.
Illinois Route 21
Illinois Route 21 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through several suburbs north of Chicago, including Lincolnshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
central Illinois communities
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southern Illinois communities ⓘ |
| connectsCommunity | Mattoon area ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Illinois Route 111
NERFINISHED
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Illinois Route 121 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 127 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 130 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 159 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 267 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 29 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 32 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 33 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 49 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 57 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 45 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Illinois State Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Illinois ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Illinois Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | Illinois state highway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughRegion |
Central Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| roadType | state highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 16 ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Hillsboro, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Litchfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Mattoon, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Nokomis, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Pana, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Shelbyville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Taylorville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesCounty |
Christian County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
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Coles County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Jersey County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Montgomery County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Shelby County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle 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: Illinois Route 16 Description of subject: Illinois Route 16 is an east–west state highway in Illinois that connects several central and southern Illinois communities, including the area around Mattoon.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.