U.S. Route 12 in North Dakota
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U.S. Route 12 in North Dakota is an east–west U.S. Highway crossing the state’s southwestern region, connecting rural communities and linking Montana to South Dakota.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Route 12 in North Dakota canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8995095 — 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 12 in North Dakota Context triple: [U.S. Route 281, partiallyConcurrentWith, U.S. Route 12 in North Dakota]
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A.
North Dakota Highway 59
North Dakota Highway 59 is a short state highway in northeastern North Dakota that connects the city of Pembina to the nearby Minnesota state line and regional highway network.
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B.
U.S. Route 10 in Minnesota
U.S. Route 10 in Minnesota is a major east–west U.S. Highway that connects the Fargo–Moorhead area to the Twin Cities region, serving several key communities across central Minnesota.
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C.
South Dakota Highway 11
South Dakota Highway 11 is a state highway in southeastern South Dakota that runs north–south through several counties, connecting rural communities and serving as a regional route near the Sioux Falls metropolitan area.
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D.
U.S. Route 2 in Minnesota
U.S. Route 2 in Minnesota is a major east–west U.S. Highway crossing northern Minnesota, connecting North Dakota to Wisconsin while serving key regional cities and transportation corridors.
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E.
South Dakota Highway 18
South Dakota Highway 18 is an east–west state highway running across southern South Dakota, connecting numerous small towns and rural areas near the Nebraska border.
- 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 12 in North Dakota Target entity description: U.S. Route 12 in North Dakota is an east–west U.S. Highway crossing the state’s southwestern region, connecting rural communities and linking Montana to South Dakota.
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A.
North Dakota Highway 59
North Dakota Highway 59 is a short state highway in northeastern North Dakota that connects the city of Pembina to the nearby Minnesota state line and regional highway network.
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B.
U.S. Route 10 in Minnesota
U.S. Route 10 in Minnesota is a major east–west U.S. Highway that connects the Fargo–Moorhead area to the Twin Cities region, serving several key communities across central Minnesota.
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C.
South Dakota Highway 11
South Dakota Highway 11 is a state highway in southeastern South Dakota that runs north–south through several counties, connecting rural communities and serving as a regional route near the Sioux Falls metropolitan area.
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D.
U.S. Route 2 in Minnesota
U.S. Route 2 in Minnesota is a major east–west U.S. Highway crossing northern Minnesota, connecting North Dakota to Wisconsin while serving key regional cities and transportation corridors.
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E.
South Dakota Highway 18
South Dakota Highway 18 is an east–west state highway running across southern South Dakota, connecting numerous small towns and rural areas near the Nebraska border.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway segment
ⓘ
road in North Dakota ⓘ |
| connectedState |
Montana
ⓘ
South Dakota ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminusStateLineWith | South Dakota ⓘ |
| function |
connects rural communities
ⓘ
links Montana to South Dakota through North Dakota ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southwestern region of North Dakota ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | North Dakota Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. Route 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | interstate U.S. Route 12 corridor ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
Adams County, North Dakota
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Bowman County, North Dakota ⓘ Hettinger County, North Dakota ⓘ Slope County, North Dakota ⓘ |
| region | southwestern North Dakota ⓘ |
| roadClassification | principal arterial highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 12 ⓘ |
| routeType | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| state | North Dakota ⓘ |
| westernTerminusStateLineWith | Montana ⓘ |
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 12 in North Dakota Description of subject: U.S. Route 12 in North Dakota is an east–west U.S. Highway crossing the state’s southwestern region, connecting rural communities and linking Montana to South Dakota.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
U.S. Route 281 (nearby)