North Dakota Highway 18
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North Dakota Highway 18 is a north–south state highway in eastern North Dakota that runs along the Red River Valley and connects several rural communities near the Canadian border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North Dakota Highway 18 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10250623 — 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: North Dakota Highway 18 Context triple: [Pembina County, traversedBy, North Dakota Highway 18]
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A.
North Dakota Highway 5
North Dakota Highway 5 is an east–west state highway in northern North Dakota that runs near the Canadian border, connecting several rural communities and agricultural areas across the state.
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B.
North Dakota Highway 59
North Dakota Highway 59 is a short state highway in northeastern North Dakota that connects the city of Pembina to the nearby Minnesota state line and regional highway network.
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C.
South Dakota Highway 18
South Dakota Highway 18 is an east–west state highway running across southern South Dakota, connecting numerous small towns and rural areas near the Nebraska border.
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D.
South Dakota Highway 11
South Dakota Highway 11 is a state highway in southeastern South Dakota that runs north–south through several counties, connecting rural communities and serving as a regional route near the Sioux Falls metropolitan area.
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E.
South Dakota Highway 17
South Dakota Highway 17 is a state highway in South Dakota that serves as a regional connector route in the southeastern part of the state.
- 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: North Dakota Highway 18 Target entity description: North Dakota Highway 18 is a north–south state highway in eastern North Dakota that runs along the Red River Valley and connects several rural communities near the Canadian border.
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A.
North Dakota Highway 5
North Dakota Highway 5 is an east–west state highway in northern North Dakota that runs near the Canadian border, connecting several rural communities and agricultural areas across the state.
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B.
North Dakota Highway 59
North Dakota Highway 59 is a short state highway in northeastern North Dakota that connects the city of Pembina to the nearby Minnesota state line and regional highway network.
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C.
South Dakota Highway 18
South Dakota Highway 18 is an east–west state highway running across southern South Dakota, connecting numerous small towns and rural areas near the Nebraska border.
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D.
South Dakota Highway 11
South Dakota Highway 11 is a state highway in southeastern South Dakota that runs north–south through several counties, connecting rural communities and serving as a regional route near the Sioux Falls metropolitan area.
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E.
South Dakota Highway 17
South Dakota Highway 17 is a state highway in South Dakota that serves as a regional connector route in the southeastern part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| connects |
North Dakota–Canada border
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Dakota–South Dakota border NERFINISHED ⓘ rural communities near the Canadian border ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| follows | Red River Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 29
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 94 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 281 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 18 ⓘ |
| highwayType | North Dakota state highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Red River Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | North Dakota Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearBorderWith |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manitoba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | North Dakota state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Cass County, North Dakota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grand Forks County, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Pembina County, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Richland County, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Traill County, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Walsh County, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves | agricultural areas of the Red River Valley ⓘ |
| terminusDirectionNorth | Canadian border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusDirectionSouth | South Dakota border ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local travel between rural communities
ⓘ
regional connectivity in eastern North Dakota ⓘ |
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: North Dakota Highway 18 Description of subject: North Dakota Highway 18 is a north–south state highway in eastern North Dakota that runs along the Red River Valley and connects several rural communities near the Canadian border.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.