US 281
E770968
US 281 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through the central United States to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| US 281 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8995101 — 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: US 281 Context triple: [U.S. Route 281, networkCode, US 281]
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A.
US 280
US 280 is a major U.S. highway running through Alabama and Georgia, linking cities such as Birmingham, Opelika, and Columbus.
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B.
US 231
US 231 is a major north–south United States highway running through several states in the eastern and central U.S., serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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C.
US 82
US 82 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern United States, passing through states such as New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
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D.
US 80
US 80 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that historically linked the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and now runs across the southern United States.
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E.
US 71
US 71 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running through the central United States, notably traversing states such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa.
- 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: US 281 Target entity description: US 281 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through the central United States to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
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A.
US 280
US 280 is a major U.S. highway running through Alabama and Georgia, linking cities such as Birmingham, Opelika, and Columbus.
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B.
US 231
US 231 is a major north–south United States highway running through several states in the eastern and central U.S., serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
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C.
US 82
US 82 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern United States, passing through states such as New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
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D.
US 80
US 80 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that historically linked the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and now runs across the southern United States.
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E.
US 71
US 71 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running through the central United States, notably traversing states such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (86)
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: US 281 Description of subject: US 281 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through the central United States to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.