Texas State Highway 249
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Texas State Highway 249 is a major north–south roadway in the Houston metropolitan area that connects the city of Houston to suburban communities such as Tomball and beyond.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Texas State Highway 249 canonical | 3 |
| State Highway 249 in Tomball | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10492527 — 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: Texas State Highway 249 Context triple: [Tomball, Texas, hasMajorRoad, Texas State Highway 249]
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A.
Texas State Highway 242
Texas State Highway 242 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Texas that serves as a major corridor through Montgomery County, connecting Interstate 45 with U.S. Highway 59 and providing access to The Woodlands and surrounding communities.
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B.
Texas State Highway 205
Texas State Highway 205 is a state highway in northeastern Texas that connects the city of Rockwall with surrounding communities as part of the regional road network.
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C.
Texas State Highway 288
Texas State Highway 288 is a major north–south roadway in Texas that connects Houston with its southern suburbs and the Gulf Coast region.
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D.
Texas State Highway 42
Texas State Highway 42 is a state-maintained roadway in East Texas that connects several communities while providing regional access to larger highways and local destinations.
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E.
Texas State Highway 352
Texas State Highway 352 is a state highway in the Dallas–Fort Worth area that serves as a major east–west arterial route connecting Dallas with suburbs such as Mesquite.
- 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: Texas State Highway 249 Target entity description: Texas State Highway 249 is a major north–south roadway in the Houston metropolitan area that connects the city of Houston to suburban communities such as Tomball and beyond.
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A.
Texas State Highway 242
Texas State Highway 242 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Texas that serves as a major corridor through Montgomery County, connecting Interstate 45 with U.S. Highway 59 and providing access to The Woodlands and surrounding communities.
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B.
Texas State Highway 205
Texas State Highway 205 is a state highway in northeastern Texas that connects the city of Rockwall with surrounding communities as part of the regional road network.
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C.
Texas State Highway 288
Texas State Highway 288 is a major north–south roadway in Texas that connects Houston with its southern suburbs and the Gulf Coast region.
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D.
Texas State Highway 42
Texas State Highway 42 is a state-maintained roadway in East Texas that connects several communities while providing regional access to larger highways and local destinations.
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E.
Texas State Highway 352
Texas State Highway 352 is a state highway in the Dallas–Fort Worth area that serves as a major east–west arterial route connecting Dallas with suburbs such as Mesquite.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SH 249 ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston
Tomball, Texas ⓘ
linked to:
Tomball, Texas, United States
areas northwest of Tomball ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| function |
major commuter route
ⓘ
regional arterial roadway ⓘ |
| hasInterchangeWith |
Beltway 8
ⓘ
Interstate 45 vicinity via connecting roads ⓘ Texas State Highway 99 ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple lanes in each direction ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
Aggie Expressway
ⓘ
Tomball Parkway ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
Texas State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Texas state highways
|
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Houston metropolitan area ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Texas Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partlyToll | yes ⓘ |
| passesThroughCity |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston
Tomball, Texas ⓘ
linked to:
Tomball, Texas, United States
|
| roadType | divided highway ⓘ |
| roleInRegion | connects Houston to outlying suburban and rural areas to the northwest ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 249 ⓘ |
| servesCommunity |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston
Tomball, Texas ⓘ
linked to:
Tomball, Texas, United States
|
| servesRegion |
Harris County, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Harris County
Montgomery County, Texas ⓘ Northwest Houston ⓘ
linked to:
northwest Houston
suburban communities northwest of Houston ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| suburbanSectionLocatedIn | Tomball area ⓘ |
| urbanSectionLocatedIn | northwest Houston ⓘ |
| usedFor | automobile traffic ⓘ |
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: Texas State Highway 249 Description of subject: Texas State Highway 249 is a major north–south roadway in the Houston metropolitan area that connects the city of Houston to suburban communities such as Tomball and beyond.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tomball, Texas, United States
subject linked to:
Montgomery County
linked to: Texas State Highway 249