Illinois Route 2
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Illinois Route 2 is a state highway in northern Illinois that runs along the Rock River, connecting Rockford with several other communities and serving as a key regional roadway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illinois Route 2 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9480717 — 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: Illinois Route 2 Context triple: [Rockford, Illinois, transportation, Illinois Route 2]
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A.
Illinois Route 3
Illinois Route 3 is a major north–south state highway in southwestern Illinois that runs along the Mississippi River, connecting numerous communities from near Cairo to the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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B.
Illinois Route 21
Illinois Route 21 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through several suburbs north of Chicago, including Lincolnshire.
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C.
Illinois Route 5
Illinois Route 5 is a state highway in northwestern Illinois that functions as a major east–west arterial route connecting communities in the Quad Cities area and beyond.
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D.
Illinois Route 1
Illinois Route 1 is a long north–south state highway in Illinois that runs from the Chicago metropolitan area to the southeastern tip of the state, serving numerous communities along the way.
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E.
Illinois Route 6
Illinois Route 6 is a state highway in northern Illinois that serves as a key regional connector, including a segment functioning as a bypass around the Peoria area.
- 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: Illinois Route 2 Target entity description: Illinois Route 2 is a state highway in northern Illinois that runs along the Rock River, connecting Rockford with several other communities and serving as a key regional roadway.
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A.
Illinois Route 3
Illinois Route 3 is a major north–south state highway in southwestern Illinois that runs along the Mississippi River, connecting numerous communities from near Cairo to the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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B.
Illinois Route 21
Illinois Route 21 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through several suburbs north of Chicago, including Lincolnshire.
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C.
Illinois Route 5
Illinois Route 5 is a state highway in northwestern Illinois that functions as a major east–west arterial route connecting communities in the Quad Cities area and beyond.
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D.
Illinois Route 1
Illinois Route 1 is a long north–south state highway in Illinois that runs from the Chicago metropolitan area to the southeastern tip of the state, serving numerous communities along the way.
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E.
Illinois Route 6
Illinois Route 6 is a state highway in northern Illinois that serves as a key regional connector, including a segment functioning as a bypass around the Peoria area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | IL 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsCity | Rockford, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsCommunity |
Byron, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dixon, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockton, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ South Beloit, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
Illinois Route 64
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 72 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 39 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 52 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followsRiver | Rock River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | regional arterial roadway ⓘ |
| hasDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Illinois State Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Northern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Illinois Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
Lee County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ogle County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Winnebago County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | two-lane highway (in many segments) ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| servesAs | key regional roadway along the Rock River ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to Rock River communities
ⓘ
commuter traffic ⓘ regional travel ⓘ |
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: Illinois Route 2 Description of subject: Illinois Route 2 is a state highway in northern Illinois that runs along the Rock River, connecting Rockford with several other communities and serving as a key regional roadway.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sterling, Illinois