U.S. Route 400
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U.S. Route 400 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the central United States, primarily through Kansas and neighboring states, connecting numerous regional cities and transportation corridors.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 400 canonical | 4 |
| U.S. Highway 400 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1214310 — 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 400 Context triple: [Garden City, Kansas, majorHighway, U.S. Route 400]
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A.
U.S. Route 460
U.S. Route 460 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through several states in the eastern United States, connecting communities in the Appalachian region to larger urban and transportation networks.
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B.
U.S. Route 340
U.S. Route 340 is a U.S. highway running through parts of Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland, connecting the Shenandoah Valley region with the Frederick, Maryland area.
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C.
U.S. Route 14
U.S. Route 14 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that runs from Chicago, Illinois, across the northern Midwest and Great Plains to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
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D.
U.S. Route 441
U.S. Route 441 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Florida to Tennessee, serving as an important regional corridor through several southeastern states.
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E.
U.S. Route 501
U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
- 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 400 Target entity description: U.S. Route 400 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the central United States, primarily through Kansas and neighboring states, connecting numerous regional cities and transportation corridors.
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A.
U.S. Route 460
U.S. Route 460 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through several states in the eastern United States, connecting communities in the Appalachian region to larger urban and transportation networks.
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B.
U.S. Route 340
U.S. Route 340 is a U.S. highway running through parts of Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland, connecting the Shenandoah Valley region with the Frederick, Maryland area.
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C.
U.S. Route 14
U.S. Route 14 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that runs from Chicago, Illinois, across the northern Midwest and Great Plains to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
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D.
U.S. Route 441
U.S. Route 441 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Florida to Tennessee, serving as an important regional corridor through several southeastern states.
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E.
U.S. Route 501
U.S. Route 501 is a U.S. Highway running through Virginia and North Carolina that serves as a key north–south transportation corridor connecting cities such as Durham and Myrtle Beach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| connects |
major transportation corridors in the central United States
ⓘ
regional cities in Colorado ⓘ regional cities in Kansas ⓘ regional cities in Missouri ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| function |
long‑distance through route
ⓘ
regional connector ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 135
ⓘ
Interstate 35 ⓘ Interstate 44 ⓘ Interstate 70 ⓘ U.S. Route 169 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 283 ⓘ U.S. Route 50 ⓘ U.S. Route 54 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 54 in Kansas ⓘ U.S. Route 69 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 75 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 77 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayType |
U.S. Route
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Highway
|
| lanes | mostly two‑lane and four‑lane segments ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central United States ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Barton County, Missouri
ⓘ
Butler County, Kansas ⓘ Cherokee County, Kansas ⓘ Colorado ⓘ Dodge City, Kansas ⓘ Ford County, Kansas ⓘ Garden City, Kansas ⓘ Greely County, Kansas ⓘ
linked to:
Greeley County, Kansas
Greenwood County, Kansas ⓘ Kansas ⓘ Missouri ⓘ Pittsburg, Kansas ⓘ Sedgwick County, Kansas ⓘ Wichita, Kansas ⓘ |
| roadClassification | principal arterial ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 400 ⓘ |
| stateWithMajorExtent | Kansas ⓘ |
| surface | paved highway ⓘ |
| terminusRole | serves as a connector between rural and urban areas in Kansas ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transport
ⓘ
passenger travel ⓘ |
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 400 Description of subject: U.S. Route 400 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the central United States, primarily through Kansas and neighboring states, connecting numerous regional cities and transportation corridors.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: U.S. Route 400