U.S. Route 311
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U.S. Route 311 is a U.S. highway in North Carolina that connects the Piedmont Triad region with surrounding communities, serving as a key corridor for local and regional traffic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 311 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1161509 — 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 311 Context triple: [High Point, North Carolina, highway, U.S. Route 311]
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A.
U.S. Route 31W
U.S. Route 31W is a major north–south U.S. highway running through Kentucky and Tennessee, serving as an important regional connector between cities such as Louisville, Elizabethtown, and Nashville.
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B.
U.S. Route 31E
U.S. Route 31E is a U.S. highway running through central Kentucky and Tennessee, serving as one of two main branches of U.S. Route 31 between Nashville and Louisville.
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C.
U.S. Route 31
U.S. Route 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, connecting communities along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan down to the Gulf Coast.
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D.
U.S. Route 411
U.S. Route 411 is a U.S. highway running through the southeastern United States, connecting cities in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.
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E.
U.S. Route 331
U.S. Route 331 is a north–south U.S. highway in the southeastern United States that connects the Florida Panhandle with central Alabama, serving as a key route to the Gulf Coast.
- 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 311 Target entity description: U.S. Route 311 is a U.S. highway in North Carolina that connects the Piedmont Triad region with surrounding communities, serving as a key corridor for local and regional traffic.
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A.
U.S. Route 31W
U.S. Route 31W is a major north–south U.S. highway running through Kentucky and Tennessee, serving as an important regional connector between cities such as Louisville, Elizabethtown, and Nashville.
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B.
U.S. Route 31E
U.S. Route 31E is a U.S. highway running through central Kentucky and Tennessee, serving as one of two main branches of U.S. Route 31 between Nashville and Louisville.
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C.
U.S. Route 31
U.S. Route 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, connecting communities along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan down to the Gulf Coast.
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D.
U.S. Route 411
U.S. Route 411 is a U.S. highway running through the southeastern United States, connecting cities in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.
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E.
U.S. Route 331
U.S. Route 331 is a north–south U.S. highway in the southeastern United States that connects the Florida Panhandle with central Alabama, serving as a key route to the Gulf Coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| category |
Transportation in the Piedmont Triad
ⓘ
U.S. Highways in North Carolina ⓘ U.S. Highways in Virginia ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Archdale, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
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Danville, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Eden, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ High Point, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Madison, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Randleman, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Walnut Cove, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Winston-Salem, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Piedmont Triad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
surrounding communities in North Carolina ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| function |
local traffic corridor
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regional traffic corridor ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 40 in Winston-Salem
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 85 Business near High Point ⓘ U.S. Route 220 near Randleman NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 52 in Winston-Salem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 311 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
North Carolina Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Virginia Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Interstate 74 in North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Carolina Highway 68 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 220 Business in North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
Forsyth County, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
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Guilford County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Pittsylvania County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Randolph County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockingham County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Stokes County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
High Point, North Carolina area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Piedmont Triad NERFINISHED ⓘ Winston-Salem metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeType | north–south highway ⓘ |
| signedAs | US 311 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Virginia ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | near Danville, Virginia ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | near Randleman, North Carolina ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
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regional connectivity ⓘ |
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 311 Description of subject: U.S. Route 311 is a U.S. highway in North Carolina that connects the Piedmont Triad region with surrounding communities, serving as a key corridor for local and regional traffic.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.