Iowa Highway 78
E881771
Iowa Highway 78 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Iowa that connects several small rural communities and links with multiple primary routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa Highway 78 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10509957 — 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: Iowa Highway 78 Context triple: [Iowa Highway 1, hasJunctionWith, Iowa Highway 78]
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A.
Iowa Highway 75
Iowa Highway 75 is a primary north–south state highway in northwestern Iowa that serves as a key route through communities such as Rock Valley and connects to major regional corridors.
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B.
Iowa Highway 70
Iowa Highway 70 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south through Muscatine County, connecting local communities to the broader state road network.
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C.
Iowa Highway 71
Iowa Highway 71 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through the western part of the state, connecting several rural communities and major routes.
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D.
Iowa Highway 7
Iowa Highway 7 is a former state highway in northwestern Iowa that once connected the Sioux City area to the Fort Dodge region.
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E.
Iowa Highway 58
Iowa Highway 58 is a state highway in Iowa that serves as a key north–south route through the Cedar Falls–Waterloo area, connecting local traffic to major regional roads.
- 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: Iowa Highway 78 Target entity description: Iowa Highway 78 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Iowa that connects several small rural communities and links with multiple primary routes.
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A.
Iowa Highway 75
Iowa Highway 75 is a primary north–south state highway in northwestern Iowa that serves as a key route through communities such as Rock Valley and connects to major regional corridors.
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B.
Iowa Highway 70
Iowa Highway 70 is a state highway in eastern Iowa that runs north–south through Muscatine County, connecting local communities to the broader state road network.
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C.
Iowa Highway 71
Iowa Highway 71 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through the western part of the state, connecting several rural communities and major routes.
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D.
Iowa Highway 7
Iowa Highway 7 is a former state highway in northwestern Iowa that once connected the Sioux City area to the Fort Dodge region.
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E.
Iowa Highway 58
Iowa Highway 58 is a state highway in Iowa that serves as a key north–south route through the Cedar Falls–Waterloo area, connecting local traffic to major regional roads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| accessControl | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| category | State highways in Iowa ⓘ |
| connects | small rural communities in southeastern Iowa ⓘ |
| connectsWith | multiple primary routes in Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Iowa Highway 1
ⓘ
Iowa Highway 16 ⓘ Iowa Highway 21 ⓘ Iowa Highway 27 ⓘ U.S. Highway 218 ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Route 218
|
| highwaySystem |
Iowa State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa State Highway
|
| locationRegion | southeastern Iowa ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Iowa state highway network
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa state highways
|
| paved | yes ⓘ |
| roadFunction | regional connector route ⓘ |
| roadType | state highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 78 ⓘ |
| serves | rural areas of southeastern Iowa ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local traffic
ⓘ
regional 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: Iowa Highway 78 Description of subject: Iowa Highway 78 is an east–west state highway in southeastern Iowa that connects several small rural communities and links with multiple primary routes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.