North Carolina Highway 421
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North Carolina Highway 421 is a major state highway running across North Carolina, connecting coastal communities like Kure Beach with inland cities and key regional routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North Carolina Highway 421 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8939040 — 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: North Carolina Highway 421 Context triple: [Kure Beach, North Carolina, transportation, North Carolina Highway 421]
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A.
North Carolina Highway 42
North Carolina Highway 42 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs east–west across the central and eastern parts of the state, connecting numerous towns and major routes.
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B.
North Carolina Highway 231
North Carolina Highway 231 is a state highway in North Carolina that serves as a regional connector route in and around the town of Wendell.
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C.
North Carolina Highway 49
North Carolina Highway 49 is a primary state highway running generally southwest–northeast across central North Carolina, connecting cities such as Charlotte, Asheboro, and Roxboro.
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D.
North Carolina Highway 210
North Carolina Highway 210 is a state highway running across central and southeastern North Carolina, connecting rural communities, military areas, and coastal regions.
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E.
North Carolina Highway 24
North Carolina Highway 24 is a primary east–west state highway that spans central and eastern North Carolina, connecting numerous cities, towns, and military installations across the state.
- 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: North Carolina Highway 421 Target entity description: North Carolina Highway 421 is a major state highway running across North Carolina, connecting coastal communities like Kure Beach with inland cities and key regional routes.
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A.
North Carolina Highway 42
North Carolina Highway 42 is a primary state highway in North Carolina that runs east–west across the central and eastern parts of the state, connecting numerous towns and major routes.
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B.
North Carolina Highway 231
North Carolina Highway 231 is a state highway in North Carolina that serves as a regional connector route in and around the town of Wendell.
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C.
North Carolina Highway 49
North Carolina Highway 49 is a primary state highway running generally southwest–northeast across central North Carolina, connecting cities such as Charlotte, Asheboro, and Roxboro.
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D.
North Carolina Highway 210
North Carolina Highway 210 is a state highway running across central and southeastern North Carolina, connecting rural communities, military areas, and coastal regions.
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E.
North Carolina Highway 24
North Carolina Highway 24 is a primary east–west state highway that spans central and eastern North Carolina, connecting numerous cities, towns, and military installations across the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NC 421 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects | Kure Beach with inland cities in North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 40
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 73 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 74 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 77 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 85 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 95 NERFINISHED ⓘ Tennessee State Route 34 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 421 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 74 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 76 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| function | major east–west and northwest–southeast corridor across North Carolina ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 40 near Greensboro
ⓘ
Interstate 40 near Wilmington NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 85 near Greensboro NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 17 in Wilmington NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 321 near Boone ⓘ U.S. Route 52 near Winston-Salem ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 421 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | North Carolina Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| northernTerminus | Tennessee state line near Zionville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | North Carolina state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Boone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chatham County NERFINISHED ⓘ Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ Forsyth County NERFINISHED ⓘ Greensboro NERFINISHED ⓘ Guilford County NERFINISHED ⓘ Harnett County NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee County NERFINISHED ⓘ New Hanover County NERFINISHED ⓘ Pender County NERFINISHED ⓘ Randolph County NERFINISHED ⓘ Sampson County NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanford NERFINISHED ⓘ Siler City NERFINISHED ⓘ Watauga County NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilkes County NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilkesboro NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilmington NERFINISHED ⓘ Winston-Salem NERFINISHED ⓘ Yadkin County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeType | North Carolina state highway ⓘ |
| runsFrom | Fort Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsTo | Tennessee state line near Zionville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
coastal communities in southeastern North Carolina ⓘ northwestern North Carolina Appalachian region ⓘ |
| southernTerminus |
Fort Fisher
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kure Beach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
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regional freight movement ⓘ tourist access to North Carolina beaches and mountains ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: North Carolina Highway 421 Description of subject: North Carolina Highway 421 is a major state highway running across North Carolina, connecting coastal communities like Kure Beach with inland cities and key regional routes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.