US 12
E871631
US 12 is a major east–west United States highway that runs from Aberdeen, Washington, to Detroit, Michigan, traversing several northern states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| US 12 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10573200 — 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: US 12 Context triple: [US 31, connectsTo, US 12]
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A.
US 15
US 15 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from New York to South Carolina, serving as an important regional route through several Mid-Atlantic and Southern states.
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B.
US 17
US 17 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the southeastern United States, connecting Florida with several Atlantic coastal states.
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C.
US 82
US 82 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern United States, passing through states such as New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
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D.
US 1A
US 1A is a series of alternate U.S. Highway 1 routes in Maine that serve as business loops and local connectors through coastal towns and cities.
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E.
US 9
US 9 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running along the East Coast, primarily through New Jersey and New York, connecting urban, suburban, and coastal 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: US 12 Target entity description: US 12 is a major east–west United States highway that runs from Aberdeen, Washington, to Detroit, Michigan, traversing several northern states.
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A.
US 15
US 15 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from New York to South Carolina, serving as an important regional route through several Mid-Atlantic and Southern states.
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B.
US 17
US 17 is a major north–south U.S. highway running along the southeastern United States, connecting Florida with several Atlantic coastal states.
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C.
US 82
US 82 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern United States, passing through states such as New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
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D.
US 1A
US 1A is a series of alternate U.S. Highway 1 routes in Maine that serve as business loops and local connectors through coastal towns and cities.
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E.
US 9
US 9 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running along the East Coast, primarily through New Jersey and New York, connecting urban, suburban, and coastal communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: US 12 Description of subject: US 12 is a major east–west United States highway that runs from Aberdeen, Washington, to Detroit, Michigan, traversing several northern states.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.