M-72 (Michigan highway)
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M-72 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula that crosses the state through forested and rural areas, connecting several small communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M-72 (Michigan highway) canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10565372 — 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: M-72 (Michigan highway) Context triple: [Mio, Michigan, transportationRoute, M-72 (Michigan highway)]
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A.
M-77 (Michigan highway)
M-77 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that runs through remote forested areas to the Lake Superior shore.
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B.
M-82 (Michigan highway)
M-82 is an east–west state trunkline highway in western Michigan that serves as a key regional route through Newaygo County.
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C.
M-20 (Michigan highway)
M-20 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs across the central part of the Lower Peninsula, connecting communities such as Big Rapids and Mount Pleasant to US-131 and US-10.
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D.
M-123 (Michigan highway)
M-123 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known for providing scenic access to Tahquamenon Falls and other attractions in Luce County.
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E.
M-21 (Michigan highway)
M-21 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs through several counties, including Kent County, and serves as a key regional route connecting communities in the western 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: M-72 (Michigan highway) Target entity description: M-72 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula that crosses the state through forested and rural areas, connecting several small communities.
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A.
M-77 (Michigan highway)
M-77 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that runs through remote forested areas to the Lake Superior shore.
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B.
M-82 (Michigan highway)
M-82 is an east–west state trunkline highway in western Michigan that serves as a key regional route through Newaygo County.
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C.
M-20 (Michigan highway)
M-20 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs across the central part of the Lower Peninsula, connecting communities such as Big Rapids and Mount Pleasant to US-131 and US-10.
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D.
M-123 (Michigan highway)
M-123 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known for providing scenic access to Tahquamenon Falls and other attractions in Luce County.
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E.
M-21 (Michigan highway)
M-21 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs through several counties, including Kent County, and serves as a key regional route connecting communities in the western part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state trunkline highway ⓘ |
| connects | small communities in northern Lower Peninsula ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| highwayType | M highway (Michigan) ⓘ |
| location | Lower Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Michigan Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf | Michigan state trunkline highway system ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
forest areas
ⓘ
rural areas ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 72 ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
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: M-72 (Michigan highway) Description of subject: M-72 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula that crosses the state through forested and rural areas, connecting several small communities.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.