Interstate 39
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Interstate 39 is a north–south U.S. Interstate Highway running through Illinois and Wisconsin, serving as a major regional corridor linking cities such as Normal, Rockford, and Wausau.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 39 canonical | 6 |
| I-39 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1723755 — 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: Interstate 39 Context triple: [Interstate 94, connectsTo, Interstate 39]
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A.
Interstate 88
Interstate 88 is a major east–west highway in Illinois that connects the Chicago metropolitan area with the Quad Cities and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
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B.
Interstate 269
Interstate 269 is a beltway freeway that forms part of the outer loop around the Memphis metropolitan area, improving regional connectivity and bypassing urban traffic.
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C.
Interstate 795
Interstate 795 is a spur route of the Interstate Highway System in Florida that connects local traffic to a primary interstate corridor.
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D.
Interstate 49
Interstate 49 is a major north–south U.S. Interstate Highway running through multiple states in the central United States, including Missouri.
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E.
Interstate 496
Interstate 496 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a key urban connector and bypass route through Lansing, Michigan.
- 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: Interstate 39 Target entity description: Interstate 39 is a north–south U.S. Interstate Highway running through Illinois and Wisconsin, serving as a major regional corridor linking cities such as Normal, Rockford, and Wausau.
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A.
Interstate 88
Interstate 88 is a major east–west highway in Illinois that connects the Chicago metropolitan area with the Quad Cities and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
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B.
Interstate 269
Interstate 269 is a beltway freeway that forms part of the outer loop around the Memphis metropolitan area, improving regional connectivity and bypassing urban traffic.
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C.
Interstate 795
Interstate 795 is a spur route of the Interstate Highway System in Florida that connects local traffic to a primary interstate corridor.
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D.
Interstate 49
Interstate 49 is a major north–south U.S. Interstate Highway running through multiple states in the central United States, including Missouri.
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E.
Interstate 496
Interstate 496 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a key urban connector and bypass route through Lansing, Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Interstate Highway ⓘ |
| completedInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Bloomington, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Janesville, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ LaSalle, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Madison, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Normal, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockford, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevens Point, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Wausau, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| followsRouteOf | U.S. Route 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 74
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 80 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 88 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 39 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | primarily four-lane divided highway ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Illinois Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wisconsin Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorCorridorFor | regional traffic between Illinois and Wisconsin ⓘ |
| openedInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Interstate 43
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 90 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 94 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor | Chicago–Madison–Wausau corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Illinois River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rock River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Dane County, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
LaSalle County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Marathon County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ McLean County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Ogle County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Portage County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Winnebago County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| servesFunction |
freight transportation corridor
ⓘ
regional commuter route ⓘ |
| state |
Illinois
ⓘ
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| terminusNorth |
junction with U.S. Route 51 near Wausau, Wisconsin
ⓘ
near Wausau, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| terminusSouth |
junction with Interstate 55 near Normal, Illinois
ⓘ
near Normal, Illinois ⓘ |
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: Interstate 39 Description of subject: Interstate 39 is a north–south U.S. Interstate Highway running through Illinois and Wisconsin, serving as a major regional corridor linking cities such as Normal, Rockford, and Wausau.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
I-39