Minnesota State Highway 61
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Minnesota State Highway 61 is a scenic north–south state highway in Minnesota that closely follows the North Shore of Lake Superior, connecting Duluth to the Canadian border and serving numerous coastal communities and parks.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota State Highway 61 canonical | 4 |
| served by Minnesota State Highway 61 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10756097 — 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: Minnesota State Highway 61 Context triple: [Grand Portage, Minnesota, locatedOnRoute, Minnesota State Highway 61]
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 62
Minnesota State Highway 62 is a major east–west state highway in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, commonly known as the Crosstown Highway.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 60
Minnesota State Highway 60 is a major east–west state highway in Minnesota that spans the southern part of the state, connecting numerous rural communities and regional centers.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 65
Minnesota State Highway 65 is a major north–south state highway in Minnesota that runs from Minneapolis through several northern suburbs and communities toward the state’s northern regions.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 610
Minnesota State Highway 610 is an east–west freeway in the Twin Cities metropolitan area that serves as a major commuter route connecting suburbs such as Coon Rapids to Interstate 94 and other regional highways.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 6
Minnesota State Highway 6 is a north–south state highway in Minnesota that runs through several central and northern counties, providing access to numerous lakes, forests, and rural 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: Minnesota State Highway 61 Target entity description: Minnesota State Highway 61 is a scenic north–south state highway in Minnesota that closely follows the North Shore of Lake Superior, connecting Duluth to the Canadian border and serving numerous coastal communities and parks.
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 62
Minnesota State Highway 62 is a major east–west state highway in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, commonly known as the Crosstown Highway.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 60
Minnesota State Highway 60 is a major east–west state highway in Minnesota that spans the southern part of the state, connecting numerous rural communities and regional centers.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 65
Minnesota State Highway 65 is a major north–south state highway in Minnesota that runs from Minneapolis through several northern suburbs and communities toward the state’s northern regions.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 610
Minnesota State Highway 610 is an east–west freeway in the Twin Cities metropolitan area that serves as a major commuter route connecting suburbs such as Coon Rapids to Interstate 94 and other regional highways.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 6
Minnesota State Highway 6 is a north–south state highway in Minnesota that runs through several central and northern counties, providing access to numerous lakes, forests, and rural communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
MN 61
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
TH 61 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Cascade River State Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gooseberry Falls State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Portage State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Judge C. R. Magney State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Split Rock Lighthouse State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Temperance River State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Tettegouche State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Duluth, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grand Marais, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Portage, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Bay, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Harbors, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Interstate 35 in Duluth ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses | Pigeon River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designation | scenic highway ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| follows |
Lake Superior shoreline
ⓘ
North Shore of Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerDesignation | U.S. Route 61 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasScenicBywayStatus | yes ⓘ |
| highwayNumber | 61 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
access to state parks
ⓘ
scenic views ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Minnesota Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| northernTerminus |
Canadian border
ⓘ
Pigeon River border crossing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | North Shore Scenic Drive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Cook County, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesAccessTo | Lake Superior North Shore attractions ⓘ |
| region | North Shore region of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
North Shore coastal communities
ⓘ
tourist traffic ⓘ |
| southernTerminus | Duluth, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| surface | paved ⓘ |
| terminusCountry | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusProvince | Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile travel
ⓘ
freight transport ⓘ recreational travel ⓘ |
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: Minnesota State Highway 61 Description of subject: Minnesota State Highway 61 is a scenic north–south state highway in Minnesota that closely follows the North Shore of Lake Superior, connecting Duluth to the Canadian border and serving numerous coastal communities and parks.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
served by Minnesota State Highway 61