Maryland State Highway System
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The Maryland State Highway System is the network of state-maintained roads and highways that facilitates regional and statewide transportation across Maryland.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maryland state highway system | 39 |
| Maryland State Highway System canonical | 10 |
| Maryland state highway | 5 |
| Maryland state highways | 4 |
| Maryland highway network | 1 |
| Maryland numbered highway system | 1 |
| Maryland state highway system (non-toll) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T607339 — 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: Maryland State Highway System Context triple: [Landover, Maryland, servedBy, Maryland State Highway System]
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A.
Baltimore–Washington Parkway
The Baltimore–Washington Parkway is a major scenic highway in Maryland that connects the cities of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., serving as a key commuter and transportation route in the region.
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B.
Florida State Highway System
The Florida State Highway System is the statewide network of numbered state and U.S. highways managed by the Florida Department of Transportation that connects cities, towns, and regions throughout Florida.
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Massachusetts state highway system
The Massachusetts state highway system is the network of numbered state-maintained roads and highways that facilitates regional and statewide transportation across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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National Highway System
The National Highway System is a network of strategically important U.S. roads, including Interstates and key state and local routes, that support the nation’s economy, defense, and mobility.
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United States Numbered Highway System
The United States Numbered Highway System is a nationwide network of primary and auxiliary highways established in 1926 to standardize and organize major intercity road travel across the country.
- 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: Maryland State Highway System Target entity description: The Maryland State Highway System is the network of state-maintained roads and highways that facilitates regional and statewide transportation across Maryland.
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A.
Baltimore–Washington Parkway
The Baltimore–Washington Parkway is a major scenic highway in Maryland that connects the cities of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., serving as a key commuter and transportation route in the region.
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B.
Florida State Highway System
The Florida State Highway System is the statewide network of numbered state and U.S. highways managed by the Florida Department of Transportation that connects cities, towns, and regions throughout Florida.
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C.
Massachusetts state highway system
The Massachusetts state highway system is the network of numbered state-maintained roads and highways that facilitates regional and statewide transportation across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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D.
National Highway System
The National Highway System is a network of strategically important U.S. roads, including Interstates and key state and local routes, that support the nation’s economy, defense, and mobility.
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E.
United States Numbered Highway System
The United States Numbered Highway System is a nationwide network of primary and auxiliary highways established in 1926 to standardize and organize major intercity road travel across the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road network
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state highway system ⓘ |
| abbreviatedAs | MDSHS ⓘ |
| adminCenter | Baltimore ⓘ |
| connects |
Maryland counties
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interstate highways ⓘ major cities in Maryland ⓘ neighboring state highway systems ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| fundedBy |
federal highway funds
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state transportation funds ⓘ |
| governingBody | Maryland Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Interstate Highways in Maryland
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Maryland State Highway System self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Maryland state highways
U.S. Highways in Maryland ⓘ |
| hasDesignStandard | state highway design standards of Maryland ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | state-maintained roads in Maryland ⓘ |
| hasNotableRoute |
Maryland Route 2
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Maryland Route 32 ⓘ Maryland Route 404 ⓘ Maryland Route 5 ⓘ |
| hasRouteType |
alternate routes
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business routes ⓘ primary state highways ⓘ secondary state highways ⓘ truck routes ⓘ |
| includesFacilityType |
arterial roads
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collector roads ⓘ expressways ⓘ freeways ⓘ rural highways ⓘ urban highways ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
Maryland Transit Administration facilities
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local road networks in Maryland ⓘ |
| legalAuthority |
Maryland Code
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surface form:
Maryland state law
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| locatedIn | Maryland ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Maryland State Highway Administration ⓘ |
| partOf | Maryland transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| purpose |
regional transportation in Maryland
ⓘ
statewide transportation in Maryland ⓘ |
| regulates | access management on state roads ⓘ |
| roadSignColor | black-on-white ⓘ |
| roadSignShape | square ⓘ |
| subjectTo | federal highway regulations ⓘ |
| supports |
commuter travel in Maryland
ⓘ
freight movement in Maryland ⓘ tourism travel in Maryland ⓘ |
| usesNumberingScheme | Maryland state route numbering ⓘ |
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: Maryland State Highway System Description of subject: The Maryland State Highway System is the network of state-maintained roads and highways that facilitates regional and statewide transportation across Maryland.
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