Minnesota State Highway 72
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Minnesota State Highway 72 is a north–south state highway in northern Minnesota that runs through sparsely populated forest and lake regions to the Canadian border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota State Highway 72 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9927534 — 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: Minnesota State Highway 72 Context triple: [Baudette, Minnesota, connectedByHighway, Minnesota State Highway 72]
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 77
Minnesota State Highway 77 is a major north–south state highway in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area that connects suburban communities like Eagan to key routes and the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 73
Minnesota State Highway 73 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Minnesota that connects the Iron Range city of Hibbing with several smaller communities and rural areas.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 47
Minnesota State Highway 47 is a north–south state highway in Minnesota that connects the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area with several northern communities.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 42
Minnesota State Highway 42 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs generally north–south, connecting several small communities and rural areas between the U.S. Highway 52 corridor and the Mississippi River region.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 37
Minnesota State Highway 37 is a state highway in northeastern Minnesota that connects the city of Hibbing to other regional routes and communities.
- 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: Minnesota State Highway 72 Target entity description: Minnesota State Highway 72 is a north–south state highway in northern Minnesota that runs through sparsely populated forest and lake regions to the Canadian border.
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 77
Minnesota State Highway 77 is a major north–south state highway in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area that connects suburban communities like Eagan to key routes and the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 73
Minnesota State Highway 73 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Minnesota that connects the Iron Range city of Hibbing with several smaller communities and rural areas.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 47
Minnesota State Highway 47 is a north–south state highway in Minnesota that connects the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area with several northern communities.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 42
Minnesota State Highway 42 is a state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs generally north–south, connecting several small communities and rural areas between the U.S. Highway 52 corridor and the Mississippi River region.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 37
Minnesota State Highway 37 is a state highway in northeastern Minnesota that connects the city of Hibbing to other regional routes and communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Canada ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| environment |
forest regions
ⓘ
lake regions ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 72 ⓘ |
| highwayType | Minnesota State Highway ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northern Minnesota ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Minnesota Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Beltrami County
ⓘ
Lake of the Woods County ⓘ |
| populationDensityAlongRoute | sparsely populated ⓘ |
| roadFunction |
cross-border route
ⓘ
regional connector ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| terminusNorth |
Canadian border
ⓘ
Minnesota–Ontario border ⓘ
linked to:
Ontario–Minnesota border
|
| terminusSouth | near Blackduck, Minnesota ⓘ |
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: Minnesota State Highway 72 Description of subject: Minnesota State Highway 72 is a north–south state highway in northern Minnesota that runs through sparsely populated forest and lake regions to the Canadian border.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.