U.S. Route 36
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U.S. Route 36 is an east–west United States highway that spans multiple Midwestern states, serving as a key regional corridor for travel and commerce.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 36 canonical | 4 |
| U.S. Route 36 alignment | 1 |
| U.S. Route 36 in Kansas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1175453 — 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 36 Context triple: [Marion County, Missouri, hasMajorTransportation, U.S. Route 36]
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A.
U.S. Route 60
U.S. Route 60 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from Arizona to Virginia, passing through states such as New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky.
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B.
U.S. Highway 30
U.S. Highway 30 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Atlantic coast in New Jersey to the Pacific Northwest in Oregon, passing through numerous states across the northern part of the country.
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C.
U.S. Route 95
U.S. Route 95 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Arizona to the Canadian border in Idaho, traversing several western states.
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D.
U.S. Route 68
U.S. Route 68 is a north–south United States highway running through parts of the Midwest and South, connecting communities in states such as Ohio and Kentucky.
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E.
U.S. Route 69
U.S. Route 69 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Texas through several central states, connecting numerous cities and regional transportation networks.
- 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 36 Target entity description: U.S. Route 36 is an east–west United States highway that spans multiple Midwestern states, serving as a key regional corridor for travel and commerce.
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A.
U.S. Route 60
U.S. Route 60 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from Arizona to Virginia, passing through states such as New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky.
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B.
U.S. Highway 30
U.S. Highway 30 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Atlantic coast in New Jersey to the Pacific Northwest in Oregon, passing through numerous states across the northern part of the country.
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C.
U.S. Route 95
U.S. Route 95 is a major north–south United States highway running from the Mexican border in Arizona to the Canadian border in Idaho, traversing several western states.
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D.
U.S. Route 68
U.S. Route 68 is a north–south United States highway running through parts of the Midwest and South, connecting communities in states such as Ohio and Kentucky.
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E.
U.S. Route 69
U.S. Route 69 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Texas through several central states, connecting numerous cities and regional transportation networks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway
ⓘ
east–west highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 25
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 35 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 57 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 65 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 69 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 70 in multiple states ⓘ Interstate 71 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 77 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| easternTerminus | Ohio State Route 3 in Uhrichsville, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
connects rural and urban areas
ⓘ
facilitates interstate commerce ⓘ regional transportation corridor ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colorado
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ Indiana ⓘ Kansas ⓘ Missouri ⓘ Ohio ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| overlapsWith | Denver–Boulder Turnpike in Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Boulder, Colorado
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cameron, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Champaign, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Chillicothe, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Coshocton, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Danville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Decatur, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Delaware, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Denver metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenville, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Hannibal, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Indianapolis, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Muncie, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Newark, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Piqua, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Joseph, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Urbana, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | key Midwestern east–west corridor ⓘ |
| traversesRegion |
Great Plains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminusNear | Estes Park, Colorado 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: U.S. Route 36 Description of subject: U.S. Route 36 is an east–west United States highway that spans multiple Midwestern states, serving as a key regional corridor for travel and commerce.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 36 alignment
this entity surface form:
U.S. Route 36 in Kansas