Maryland Route 117
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Maryland Route 117 is a state highway in Montgomery County, Maryland, that serves the Germantown and Gaithersburg areas and provides access to local communities, businesses, and commuter routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maryland Route 117 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6870020 — 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: Maryland Route 117 Context triple: [Maryland Route 124, connectsTo, Maryland Route 117]
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A.
Maryland Route 118
Maryland Route 118 is a state highway in Montgomery County, Maryland, serving the Germantown area and connecting local roads to major routes including Interstate 270.
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B.
Maryland Route 108
Maryland Route 108 is a state highway in central Maryland that runs east–west through Howard and Montgomery counties, connecting communities such as Olney, Columbia, and Elkridge.
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C.
Maryland Route 175
Maryland Route 175 is a state highway in central Maryland that connects the Columbia and Jessup areas to major routes serving Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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D.
Maryland Route 178
Maryland Route 178 is a state highway in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, that primarily serves as a connector between residential areas near Crownsville and major routes leading into Annapolis.
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E.
Maryland Route 103
Maryland Route 103 is a state highway in Maryland that runs through Howard and Anne Arundel counties, providing local access between communities such as Elkridge and Ellicott City and connecting with major routes like U.S. Route 1 and Interstate 95.
- 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: Maryland Route 117 Target entity description: Maryland Route 117 is a state highway in Montgomery County, Maryland, that serves the Germantown and Gaithersburg areas and provides access to local communities, businesses, and commuter routes.
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A.
Maryland Route 118
Maryland Route 118 is a state highway in Montgomery County, Maryland, serving the Germantown area and connecting local roads to major routes including Interstate 270.
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B.
Maryland Route 108
Maryland Route 108 is a state highway in central Maryland that runs east–west through Howard and Montgomery counties, connecting communities such as Olney, Columbia, and Elkridge.
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C.
Maryland Route 175
Maryland Route 175 is a state highway in central Maryland that connects the Columbia and Jessup areas to major routes serving Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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D.
Maryland Route 178
Maryland Route 178 is a state highway in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, that primarily serves as a connector between residential areas near Crownsville and major routes leading into Annapolis.
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E.
Maryland Route 103
Maryland Route 103 is a state highway in Maryland that runs through Howard and Anne Arundel counties, providing local access between communities such as Elkridge and Ellicott City and connecting with major routes like U.S. Route 1 and Interstate 95.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MD 117 ⓘ |
| accessType | public road ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Maryland
ⓘ
Transportation in Montgomery County, Maryland ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
local businesses in Montgomery County, Maryland
ⓘ
local communities in Montgomery County, Maryland ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county |
Montgomery County, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Montgomery County
|
| function | provides access to commuter routes ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west alignment (approximate) ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
commuter routes in Montgomery County
ⓘ
other Maryland state highways in Montgomery County ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 117 ⓘ |
| highwayType |
Maryland state highway
ⓘ
linked to:
Maryland State Highway System
|
| locatedIn |
Gaithersburg, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Gaithersburg
Germantown, Maryland ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Washington metropolitan area ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maryland State Highway Administration ⓘ |
| partOf |
Maryland state highway system
ⓘ
linked to:
Maryland State Highway System
|
| regionServed |
Germantown–Gaithersburg area
ⓘ
linked to:
Germantown, Maryland
|
| roadClassification | primary state highway ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| serves |
Gaithersburg, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Gaithersburg
Germantown, Maryland ⓘ Metropolitan Washington suburbs ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| transportNetworkRole | connector between residential areas and major routes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
local access ⓘ |
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: Maryland Route 117 Description of subject: Maryland Route 117 is a state highway in Montgomery County, Maryland, that serves the Germantown and Gaithersburg areas and provides access to local communities, businesses, and commuter routes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.