Illinois Route 61
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Illinois Route 61 is a state highway in western Illinois that runs through rural areas, connecting small communities and providing regional access within Adams County and surrounding counties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Illinois Route 61 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9939790 — 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 61 Context triple: [Adams County, Illinois, traversedBy, Illinois Route 61]
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A.
Illinois Route 62
Illinois Route 62 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a major arterial road through communities such as Algonquin.
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B.
Illinois Route 64
Illinois Route 64 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs through the Chicago metropolitan area and serves communities such as Maywood.
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C.
U.S. Route 61
U.S. Route 61 is a major north–south United States highway, often called the "Blues Highway," that runs along the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Minnesota–Canada border.
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D.
Illinois Route 100
Illinois Route 100 is a scenic state highway in Illinois that runs along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, forming part of the Great River Road and offering notable riverfront views and access to several small towns and parks.
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E.
Illinois Route 56
Illinois Route 56 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that connects the western suburbs of Chicago, including areas like Downers Grove, to communities farther west.
- 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 61 Target entity description: Illinois Route 61 is a state highway in western Illinois that runs through rural areas, connecting small communities and providing regional access within Adams County and surrounding counties.
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A.
Illinois Route 62
Illinois Route 62 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a major arterial road through communities such as Algonquin.
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B.
Illinois Route 64
Illinois Route 64 is an east–west state highway in northern Illinois that runs through the Chicago metropolitan area and serves communities such as Maywood.
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C.
U.S. Route 61
U.S. Route 61 is a major north–south United States highway, often called the "Blues Highway," that runs along the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Minnesota–Canada border.
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D.
Illinois Route 100
Illinois Route 100 is a scenic state highway in Illinois that runs along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, forming part of the Great River Road and offering notable riverfront views and access to several small towns and parks.
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E.
Illinois Route 56
Illinois Route 56 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that connects the western suburbs of Chicago, including areas like Downers Grove, to communities farther west.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| accessControl | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Illinois
ⓘ
Transportation in Adams County, Illinois ⓘ Transportation in Hancock County, Illinois ⓘ Transportation in Henderson County, Illinois ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| function | regional access route ⓘ |
| hasDirection |
east–west
ⓘ
north–south ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 61 ⓘ |
| highwayType | State Route ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | two-lane highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Adams County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
western Illinois transportation network ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Illinois Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Illinois state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Adams County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hancock County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Henderson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | western Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| roadUse | motor vehicle traffic ⓘ |
| serves |
rural areas
ⓘ
small communities ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| traverses |
agricultural land
ⓘ
rural countryside ⓘ |
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 61 Description of subject: Illinois Route 61 is a state highway in western Illinois that runs through rural areas, connecting small communities and providing regional access within Adams County and surrounding counties.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.