I-26
E739400
I-26 is an east–west Interstate Highway in the southeastern United States that runs from Kingsport, Tennessee, through North Carolina and South Carolina to Charleston.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I-26 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8506202 — 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: I-26 Context triple: [Interstate 26, abbreviation, I-26]
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A.
I-278
I-278 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in New York City that connects several boroughs via routes such as the Bruckner, Brooklyn-Queens, and Staten Island expressways.
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B.
I-235
I-235 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a bypass route around Wichita, Kansas.
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C.
I-294
I-294 is a major tollway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway system, carrying heavy regional and interstate traffic around the city.
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D.
I-275
I-275 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that forms part of the beltway system around the Detroit metropolitan area in southeastern Michigan.
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E.
I-84
I-84 is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the northwestern United States, running through Oregon and Idaho as a key regional transportation corridor.
- 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: I-26 Target entity description: I-26 is an east–west Interstate Highway in the southeastern United States that runs from Kingsport, Tennessee, through North Carolina and South Carolina to Charleston.
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A.
I-278
I-278 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in New York City that connects several boroughs via routes such as the Bruckner, Brooklyn-Queens, and Staten Island expressways.
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B.
I-235
I-235 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves as a bypass route around Wichita, Kansas.
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C.
I-294
I-294 is a major tollway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway system, carrying heavy regional and interstate traffic around the city.
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D.
I-275
I-275 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that forms part of the beltway system around the Detroit metropolitan area in southeastern Michigan.
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E.
I-84
I-84 is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the northwestern United States, running through Oregon and Idaho as a key regional transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Interstate Highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | I-26 ⓘ |
| accessControl | fully controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| belongsToNetwork | National Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
I-20
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I-40 NERFINISHED ⓘ I-81 NERFINISHED ⓘ I-85 ⓘ I-95 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| formsCorridorBetween | Appalachian region and Atlantic coast ⓘ |
| hasJunction |
I-126
ⓘ
I-526 ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | divided highway ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | southwest–northeast in some segments ⓘ |
| hasTerminus |
Charleston, South Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kingsport, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 26 ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Southeastern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
North Carolina Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Carolina Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ Tennessee Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Greenville, South Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Johnson City, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Tri-Cities region of Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughCity |
Asheville, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charleston, South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Columbia, South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingsport, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ Spartanburg, South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughMountainRange | Appalachian Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughState |
North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeType | Interstate ⓘ |
| runsFrom | Kingsport, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsTo | Charleston, South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transport
ⓘ
long-distance travel ⓘ regional commuting ⓘ |
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: I-26 Description of subject: I-26 is an east–west Interstate Highway in the southeastern United States that runs from Kingsport, Tennessee, through North Carolina and South Carolina to Charleston.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Interstate 26