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 (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Route 36 canonical | 25 |
| U.S. Highway 36 | 1 |
| U.S. Route 36 (in parts of Kansas) | 1 |
| U.S. Route 36 (via connecting roads) | 1 |
| 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)
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 (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: U.S. Route 36
linked to: U.S. Route 36
linked to: U.S. Route 36
linked to: U.S. Route 36
linked to: U.S. Route 36