Interstate 40 (nearby)
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Interstate 40 is a major east–west U.S. highway that spans from California to North Carolina, serving as a key transportation corridor across the southern United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate 40 (nearby) canonical | 3 |
| Interstate 40 near Research Triangle Park | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10592151 — 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 40 (nearby) Context triple: [Brownsville, Tennessee, locatedOnHighway, Interstate 40 (nearby)]
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A.
Interstate 540 (nearby)
Interstate 540 is a major beltway segment around the Raleigh–Durham area in North Carolina that provides regional freeway access and connectivity for nearby communities such as Apex.
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B.
Interstate 376 (nearby)
Interstate 376 is a major highway in western Pennsylvania that connects the Pittsburgh area with nearby communities and regional routes, providing significant transportation access for places like Neshannock Township.
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C.
Interstate 16 (nearby)
Interstate 16 is a major east–west highway in Georgia that connects the city of Macon to the coastal city of Savannah.
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D.
Interstate 26 (nearby)
Interstate 26 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway in the southeastern United States that connects Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
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E.
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.
- 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 40 (nearby) Target entity description: Interstate 40 is a major east–west U.S. highway that spans from California to North Carolina, serving as a key transportation corridor across the southern United States.
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A.
Interstate 540 (nearby)
Interstate 540 is a major beltway segment around the Raleigh–Durham area in North Carolina that provides regional freeway access and connectivity for nearby communities such as Apex.
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B.
Interstate 376 (nearby)
Interstate 376 is a major highway in western Pennsylvania that connects the Pittsburgh area with nearby communities and regional routes, providing significant transportation access for places like Neshannock Township.
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C.
Interstate 16 (nearby)
Interstate 16 is a major east–west highway in Georgia that connects the city of Macon to the coastal city of Savannah.
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D.
Interstate 26 (nearby)
Interstate 26 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway in the southeastern United States that connects Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Interstate Highway ⓘ |
| accessControl | full access control ⓘ |
| bridgeCrossing | Mississippi River at Memphis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Interstate Highways in the United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Transcontinental highways in the United States ⓘ |
| connects |
Atlantic region of the United States
ⓘ
Pacific region of the United States ⓘ major urban centers in the southern United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Wilmington, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| easternTerminusConnection | U.S. Route 117 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerAlignmentOf | U.S. Route 66 (in several segments) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 40 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | divided highway ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
United States Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | National Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear | Great Smoky Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Amarillo, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Asheville, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Barstow, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Flagstaff, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ Knoxville, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Rock, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Memphis, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ Nashville, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern United States
Southern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ Southwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
major passenger travel corridor
ⓘ
major transcontinental freight corridor ⓘ |
| stateTraversed |
Arizona
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ California NERFINISHED ⓘ New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tollStatus | primarily toll-free ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Barstow, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminusConnection | Interstate 15 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 40 (nearby) Description of subject: Interstate 40 is a major east–west U.S. highway that spans from California to North Carolina, serving as a key transportation corridor across the southern United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brownsville, Tennessee
this entity surface form:
Interstate 40 near Research Triangle Park