U.S. Route 309
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U.S. Route 309 was a former U.S. Highway that ran through eastern Pennsylvania before being decommissioned and largely replaced by Pennsylvania Route 309.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 309 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6735636 — 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: U.S. Route 309 Context triple: [Pennsylvania Route 309, isNumberSuccessorOf, U.S. Route 309]
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A.
U.S. Route 302
U.S. Route 302 is a U.S. highway in the northeastern United States that runs from Montpelier, Vermont, through New Hampshire, to Portland, Maine.
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B.
U.S. Route 222
U.S. Route 222 is a north–south U.S. highway in Pennsylvania and Maryland that connects Reading and Lancaster with the greater U.S. Route 22 and Interstate 78 corridor near Allentown.
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C.
U.S. Route 30
U.S. Route 30 is a major east–west U.S. highway that spans from the East Coast to the Midwest, passing through multiple states and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
U.S. Route 322
U.S. Route 322 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through several Mid-Atlantic states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey, connecting rural areas, suburbs, and key regional cities.
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E.
U.S. Route 219
U.S. Route 219 is a major north–south United States highway running from New York through Pennsylvania and other states, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- 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: U.S. Route 309 Target entity description: U.S. Route 309 was a former U.S. Highway that ran through eastern Pennsylvania before being decommissioned and largely replaced by Pennsylvania Route 309.
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A.
U.S. Route 302
U.S. Route 302 is a U.S. highway in the northeastern United States that runs from Montpelier, Vermont, through New Hampshire, to Portland, Maine.
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B.
U.S. Route 222
U.S. Route 222 is a north–south U.S. highway in Pennsylvania and Maryland that connects Reading and Lancaster with the greater U.S. Route 22 and Interstate 78 corridor near Allentown.
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C.
U.S. Route 30
U.S. Route 30 is a major east–west U.S. highway that spans from the East Coast to the Midwest, passing through multiple states and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
U.S. Route 322
U.S. Route 322 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through several Mid-Atlantic states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey, connecting rural areas, suburbs, and key regional cities.
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E.
U.S. Route 219
U.S. Route 219 is a major north–south United States highway running from New York through Pennsylvania and other states, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | US 309 ⓘ |
| category | Former U.S. Highways in Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| highwaySystem | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pennsylvania
ⓘ
eastern Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| partOf |
U.S. Highway System in Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Highways in Pennsylvania
|
| region | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Pennsylvania Route 309 ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 309 ⓘ |
| routeType | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| successor | PA 309 ⓘ |
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: U.S. Route 309 Description of subject: U.S. Route 309 was a former U.S. Highway that ran through eastern Pennsylvania before being decommissioned and largely replaced by Pennsylvania Route 309.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.