Indiana State Road 8
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Indiana State Road 8 is an east–west state highway in northern Indiana that connects several small towns and rural areas, including the community of Kouts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Indiana State Road 8 canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8879539 — 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: Indiana State Road 8 Context triple: [Kouts, Indiana, transportation, Indiana State Road 8]
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A.
Indiana State Road 38
Indiana State Road 38 is an east–west state highway in Indiana that connects several central and eastern Indiana communities, including the city of Richmond.
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B.
Indiana State Road 5
Indiana State Road 5 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Indiana that connects several small towns and rural communities, including Topeka.
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C.
Indiana State Road 19
Indiana State Road 19 is a north–south state highway in northern Indiana that connects several communities, including the city of Elkhart, and links local traffic to major regional routes.
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D.
Indiana State Road 49
Indiana State Road 49 is a north–south state highway in northwestern Indiana that connects communities such as Valparaiso to major routes and regional destinations near Lake Michigan.
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E.
Indiana State Road 4
Indiana State Road 4 is a state highway in northern Indiana that serves as an east–west route connecting several communities, including Goshen.
- 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: Indiana State Road 8 Target entity description: Indiana State Road 8 is an east–west state highway in northern Indiana that connects several small towns and rural areas, including the community of Kouts.
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A.
Indiana State Road 38
Indiana State Road 38 is an east–west state highway in Indiana that connects several central and eastern Indiana communities, including the city of Richmond.
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B.
Indiana State Road 5
Indiana State Road 5 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Indiana that connects several small towns and rural communities, including Topeka.
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C.
Indiana State Road 19
Indiana State Road 19 is a north–south state highway in northern Indiana that connects several communities, including the city of Elkhart, and links local traffic to major regional routes.
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D.
Indiana State Road 49
Indiana State Road 49 is a north–south state highway in northwestern Indiana that connects communities such as Valparaiso to major routes and regional destinations near Lake Michigan.
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E.
Indiana State Road 4
Indiana State Road 4 is a state highway in northern Indiana that serves as an east–west route connecting several communities, including Goshen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road in Indiana
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Indiana
ⓘ
Transportation in northern Indiana ⓘ |
| connects |
rural areas in northern Indiana
ⓘ
small towns in northern Indiana ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternSegmentOrientation | east–west ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
eastern segment of Indiana State Road 8
ⓘ
western segment of Indiana State Road 8 ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 8 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Road ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northern Indiana ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Indiana Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indiana State Road system
ⓘ
linked to:
Indiana state highway system
|
| passesThrough |
DeKalb County, Indiana
ⓘ
Kosciusko County, Indiana ⓘ Kouts, Indiana ⓘ LaPorte County, Indiana ⓘ Marshall County, Indiana ⓘ Noble County, Indiana ⓘ Porter County, Indiana ⓘ Starke County, Indiana ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| state | Indiana ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle transportation ⓘ |
| westernSegmentOrientation | east–west ⓘ |
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: Indiana State Road 8 Description of subject: Indiana State Road 8 is an east–west state highway in northern Indiana that connects several small towns and rural areas, including the community of Kouts.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.