Route 18
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Route 18 is a major state highway in central New Jersey that serves as a key north–south corridor connecting communities such as New Brunswick and Sayreville.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Route 18 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7534807 — 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: Route 18 Context triple: [Sayreville, New Jersey, hasTransportation, Route 18]
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A.
Route 17
Route 17 is a state highway designation in Massachusetts used for a specific segment of roadway within the state's numbered route system.
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B.
Route 17
Route 17 is a major state highway in New York that serves as a key transportation corridor through the southern part of the state, connecting numerous towns and villages.
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C.
Route 16
Route 16 is a major roadway in northern Chile that connects the inland city of Alto Hospicio with the coastal port city of Iquique.
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D.
Route 16
Route 16 is a major east–west state highway in Massachusetts that connects several cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.
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E.
Route 108
Route 108 is a regional road that passes through the district of Uruca, serving as part of the local transportation network.
- 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: Route 18 Target entity description: Route 18 is a major state highway in central New Jersey that serves as a key north–south corridor connecting communities such as New Brunswick and Sayreville.
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A.
Route 17
Route 17 is a state highway designation in Massachusetts used for a specific segment of roadway within the state's numbered route system.
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B.
Route 17
Route 17 is a major state highway in New York that serves as a key transportation corridor through the southern part of the state, connecting numerous towns and villages.
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C.
Route 16
Route 16 is a major roadway in northern Chile that connects the inland city of Alto Hospicio with the coastal port city of Iquique.
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D.
Route 16
Route 16 is a major east–west state highway in Massachusetts that connects several cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.
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E.
Route 108
Route 108 is a regional road that passes through the district of Uruca, serving as part of the local transportation network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
New Brunswick, New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sayreville, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Garden State Parkway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 287 NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey Route 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey Route 172 NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey Route 27 NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey Route 35 NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey Route 36 NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey Route 66 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses | Raritan River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
commuter route
ⓘ
major transportation corridor ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
at-grade intersections
ⓘ
freeway segments ⓘ interchanges ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95) via connecting roads
ⓘ
U.S. Route 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 18 ⓘ |
| highwayType | state highway ⓘ |
| location | Central New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | New Jersey Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Rutgers University–New Brunswick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| partOf | New Jersey state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Middlesex County, New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Monmouth County, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Jersey Shore area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Raritan Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadClassification | arterial highway ⓘ |
| serves |
Colts Neck Township, New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
East Brunswick, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Marlboro Township, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Neptune Township, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ New Brunswick, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Bridge Township, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Sayreville, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesAs | key north–south corridor in central New Jersey ⓘ |
| state |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
|
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
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: Route 18 Description of subject: Route 18 is a major state highway in central New Jersey that serves as a key north–south corridor connecting communities such as New Brunswick and Sayreville.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.