U.S. Route 72
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U.S. Route 72 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the southeastern United States that connects cities across Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Route 72 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1431246 — 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 72 Context triple: [Huntsville, Alabama, servedBy, U.S. Route 72]
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A.
U.S. Route 74
U.S. Route 74 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern part of North Carolina into Tennessee, connecting cities such as Charlotte, Gastonia, and Wilmington.
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B.
U.S. Route 73
U.S. Route 73 is a north–south United States highway running through northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska, connecting communities including the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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C.
U.S. Route 23
U.S. Route 23 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Florida to Michigan, serving as a key regional transportation artery through several eastern and midwestern states.
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D.
U.S. Route 77
U.S. Route 77 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central states to its northern terminus in Iowa.
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E.
U.S. Route 14
U.S. Route 14 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that runs from Chicago, Illinois, across the northern Midwest and Great Plains to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
- 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 72 Target entity description: U.S. Route 72 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the southeastern United States that connects cities across Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi.
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A.
U.S. Route 74
U.S. Route 74 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern part of North Carolina into Tennessee, connecting cities such as Charlotte, Gastonia, and Wilmington.
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B.
U.S. Route 73
U.S. Route 73 is a north–south United States highway running through northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska, connecting communities including the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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C.
U.S. Route 23
U.S. Route 23 is a major north–south U.S. highway running from Florida to Michigan, serving as a key regional transportation artery through several eastern and midwestern states.
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D.
U.S. Route 77
U.S. Route 77 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through several central states to its northern terminus in Iowa.
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E.
U.S. Route 14
U.S. Route 14 is a major east–west U.S. Highway that runs from Chicago, Illinois, across the northern Midwest and Great Plains to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Highway
ⓘ
east–west highway ⓘ |
| category |
U.S. Highways in Alabama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Highways in Mississippi ⓘ U.S. Highways in Tennessee ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Chattanooga, Tennessee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Collierville, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ Corinth, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Florence, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Huntsville, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Memphis, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ Muscle Shoals, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottsboro, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ South Pittsburg, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevenson, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Tuscumbia, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| directionA | West ⓘ |
| directionB | East ⓘ |
| followsRiver | Tennessee River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 22
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 24 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 565 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 65 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 231 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 31 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 41 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 43 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 45 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern United States
|
| maintainedBy |
Alabama Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mississippi Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ Tennessee Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Natchez Trace Parkway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shiloh National Military Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Alabama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateHighwayNumber | US 72 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusEast | Chattanooga, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusWest | Memphis, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 72 Description of subject: U.S. Route 72 is a major east–west U.S. highway in the southeastern United States that connects cities across Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.