Interstate 81 (nearby)
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Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the Appalachian region, serving as a key freight and travel corridor in the eastern United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 81 (nearby) canonical | 1 |
| Interstate 81 near Harrisonburg, Virginia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10251055 — 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: Interstate 81 (nearby) Context triple: [Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, hasTransportation, Interstate 81 (nearby)]
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A.
Interstate 84 (nearby)
Interstate 84 is a major east–west highway in the northeastern United States that provides regional connectivity and access to communities such as Beacon, New York.
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B.
Interstate 86 (nearby)
Interstate 86 is a major east–west highway in the Southern Tier of New York State that provides regional connectivity between communities such as Endicott and larger urban centers.
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C.
Interstate 95 (nearby)
Interstate 95 (nearby) is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast that provides primary regional and long-distance access to St. Augustine, Florida.
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D.
Interstate 78 (nearby access)
Interstate 78 is a major east–west highway in the northeastern United States that provides regional access through and around Essex County, New Jersey.
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E.
Interstate 287 (nearby)
Interstate 287 is a major beltway and bypass route around the New York City metropolitan area, connecting key highways in New Jersey and New York.
- 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: Interstate 81 (nearby) Target entity description: Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the Appalachian region, serving as a key freight and travel corridor in the eastern United States.
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A.
Interstate 84 (nearby)
Interstate 84 is a major east–west highway in the northeastern United States that provides regional connectivity and access to communities such as Beacon, New York.
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B.
Interstate 86 (nearby)
Interstate 86 is a major east–west highway in the Southern Tier of New York State that provides regional connectivity between communities such as Endicott and larger urban centers.
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C.
Interstate 95 (nearby)
Interstate 95 (nearby) is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the East Coast that provides primary regional and long-distance access to St. Augustine, Florida.
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D.
Interstate 78 (nearby access)
Interstate 78 is a major east–west highway in the northeastern United States that provides regional access through and around Essex County, New Jersey.
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E.
Interstate 287 (nearby)
Interstate 287 is a major beltway and bypass route around the New York City metropolitan area, connecting key highways in New Jersey and New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Interstate Highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Canadian border
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 66 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 76 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 78 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 84 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 86 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 88 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| function |
freight corridor
ⓘ
travel corridor ⓘ |
| hasToll | no (most segments) ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 81 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
heavy truck traffic
ⓘ
weather-related travel disruptions in winter ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | divided highway ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Appalachian region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| openedInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| parallelTo | U.S. Route 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor | NAFTA trade corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughMountainRange | Appalachian Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughState |
Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
long-distance trucking
ⓘ
regional travel ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Binghamton, New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bristol, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ Hagerstown, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Harrisburg, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Roanoke, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Scranton, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Syracuse, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Winchester, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Wellesley Island, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | Dandridge, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalSpeedLimit | 55–70 mph ⓘ |
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: Interstate 81 (nearby) Description of subject: Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running through the Appalachian region, serving as a key freight and travel corridor in the eastern United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Interstate 81 near Harrisonburg, Virginia