Iowa Highway 16
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Iowa Highway 16 is a state highway in southeastern Iowa that runs east–west, connecting several small communities and linking to major routes before terminating near the Mississippi River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa Highway 16 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10509958 — 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 16 Context triple: [Iowa Highway 1, hasJunctionWith, Iowa Highway 16]
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A.
Iowa Highway 17
Iowa Highway 17 is a north–south state highway in Iowa that connects several small communities and rural areas in the central part of the state.
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B.
Iowa Highway 15
Iowa Highway 15 is a state highway in northern Iowa that runs north–south, connecting rural communities and serving as a regional route near the Minnesota border.
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C.
Iowa Highway 12
Iowa Highway 12 is a state highway in western Iowa that runs along the Missouri River, serving the Sioux City area and connecting with routes into South Dakota and Nebraska.
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D.
Iowa Highway 14
Iowa Highway 14 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through central parts of the state, connecting several communities and serving as an important regional route.
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E.
Iowa Highway 164
Iowa Highway 164 is a short state highway in Iowa that serves as a connector route in the southeastern 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: Iowa Highway 16 Target entity description: Iowa Highway 16 is a state highway in southeastern Iowa that runs east–west, connecting several small communities and linking to major routes before terminating near the Mississippi River.
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A.
Iowa Highway 17
Iowa Highway 17 is a north–south state highway in Iowa that connects several small communities and rural areas in the central part of the state.
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B.
Iowa Highway 15
Iowa Highway 15 is a state highway in northern Iowa that runs north–south, connecting rural communities and serving as a regional route near the Minnesota border.
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C.
Iowa Highway 12
Iowa Highway 12 is a state highway in western Iowa that runs along the Missouri River, serving the Sioux City area and connecting with routes into South Dakota and Nebraska.
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D.
Iowa Highway 14
Iowa Highway 14 is a primary north–south state highway in Iowa that runs through central parts of the state, connecting several communities and serving as an important regional route.
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E.
Iowa Highway 164
Iowa Highway 164 is a short state highway in Iowa that serves as a connector route in the southeastern part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| accessControl | at-grade intersections ⓘ |
| connectsRegion | interior of southeastern Iowa to Mississippi River corridor ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
major routes in Iowa
ⓘ
small communities in southeastern Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasDirection |
eastbound
ⓘ
westbound ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | two-lane highway ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 16 ⓘ |
| highwayType | Iowa state highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Iowa Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf | Iowa state highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough | rural areas of southeastern Iowa ⓘ |
| region | southeastern Iowa ⓘ |
| roadCategory | primary state highway ⓘ |
| roadFunction |
link between local roads and major routes
ⓘ
regional connector ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved roadway ⓘ |
| terminatesNear | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusDirection |
eastern terminus
ⓘ
western terminus ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle 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 16 Description of subject: Iowa Highway 16 is a state highway in southeastern Iowa that runs east–west, connecting several small communities and linking to major routes before terminating near the Mississippi River.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.