I-278
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I-278 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in New York City that connects several boroughs via routes such as the Bruckner, Brooklyn-Queens, and Staten Island expressways.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I-278 canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7437803 — 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: I-278 Context triple: [Bruckner Expressway, routeNumber, I-278]
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A.
I-235
I-235 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a bypass route around Wichita, Kansas.
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B.
I-275
I-275 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that forms part of the beltway system around the Detroit metropolitan area in southeastern Michigan.
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C.
I-294
I-294 is a major tollway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway system, carrying heavy regional and interstate traffic around the city.
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D.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California that serves as a bypass and connector route through the Inland Empire region.
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E.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a beltway freeway that partially encircles the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, providing a major route for regional traffic and access to key destinations.
- 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: I-278 Target entity description: I-278 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in New York City that connects several boroughs via routes such as the Bruckner, Brooklyn-Queens, and Staten Island expressways.
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A.
I-235
I-235 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a bypass route around Wichita, Kansas.
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B.
I-275
I-275 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that forms part of the beltway system around the Detroit metropolitan area in southeastern Michigan.
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C.
I-294
I-294 is a major tollway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway system, carrying heavy regional and interstate traffic around the city.
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D.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California that serves as a bypass and connector route through the Inland Empire region.
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E.
Interstate 215
Interstate 215 is a beltway freeway that partially encircles the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, providing a major route for regional traffic and access to key destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Interstate Highway in New York
ⓘ
auxiliary Interstate Highway ⓘ |
| auxiliaryTo | I-78 ⓘ |
| connectsBorough |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ Staten Island NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bronx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossesWaterBody |
Arthur Kill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bronx Kill NERFINISHED ⓘ East River NERFINISHED ⓘ Newtown Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ The Narrows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| easternTerminus |
The Bronx
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Throgs Neck Bridge approach ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
I-478
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I-495 NERFINISHED ⓘ I-87 NERFINISHED ⓘ I-95 NERFINISHED ⓘ NY 25 NERFINISHED ⓘ NY 27 NERFINISHED ⓘ NY 440 NERFINISHED ⓘ NY 895 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brookner Expressway NERFINISHED ⓘ Gowanus Expressway NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Central Parkway concurrency ⓘ Kosciuszko Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert F. Kennedy Bridge approach ⓘ Staten Island Expressway NERFINISHED ⓘ Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lengthApproxKm | 57 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
MTA Bridges and Tunnels
NERFINISHED
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New York City Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ New York State Department of Transportation ⓘ Port Authority of New York and New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened |
1950s
ⓘ
1960s ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
Bronx County, New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kings County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Queens County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Richmond County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Union County, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 278 ⓘ |
| state |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
New York ⓘ |
| westernTerminus |
Linden, New Jersey
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Route 1/9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: I-278 Description of subject: I-278 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in New York City that connects several boroughs via routes such as the Bruckner, Brooklyn-Queens, and Staten Island expressways.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bruckner Expressway