SR 17
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SR 17 is a heavily traveled and winding state highway in California that connects San Jose in Silicon Valley with the city of Santa Cruz across the Santa Cruz Mountains.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SR 17 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11154415 — 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: SR 17 Context triple: [State Route 17 (California), abbreviation, SR 17]
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A.
SR 170
SR 170 is a state highway in Tennessee that serves as a regional connector route through parts of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
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B.
SR 178
SR 178 is a California state highway that runs east–west from Bakersfield through the Kern River Canyon and across the Mojave Desert toward Death Valley.
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C.
SR 117
SR 117 is a state highway in Maine that runs through several counties, connecting multiple rural towns and regional routes.
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D.
SR 167
SR 167 is a state highway designation used for specific numbered routes within a U.S. state's transportation system.
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E.
SR 14
SR 14 is a state highway in Georgia that serves as a key transportation route connecting several communities in the western 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: SR 17 Target entity description: SR 17 is a heavily traveled and winding state highway in California that connects San Jose in Silicon Valley with the city of Santa Cruz across the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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A.
SR 170
SR 170 is a state highway in Tennessee that serves as a regional connector route through parts of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
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B.
SR 178
SR 178 is a California state highway that runs east–west from Bakersfield through the Kern River Canyon and across the Mojave Desert toward Death Valley.
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C.
SR 117
SR 117 is a state highway in Maine that runs through several counties, connecting multiple rural towns and regional routes.
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D.
SR 167
SR 167 is a state highway designation used for specific numbered routes within a U.S. state's transportation system.
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E.
SR 14
SR 14 is a state highway in Georgia that serves as a key transportation route connecting several communities in the western part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
CA 17
ⓘ
State Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoClassifiedAs | primary state highway ⓘ |
| characteristic |
heavily traveled
ⓘ
sharp curves ⓘ steep grades ⓘ winding ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
San Jose, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Santa Cruz, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossesMountainRange | Santa Cruz Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | San Jose, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
limited shoulders
ⓘ
median barriers ⓘ mountain passes ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 280
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 880 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 85 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | California State Route system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMajorLinkBetween | Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Caltrans
ⓘ
surface form:
California Department of Transportation
|
| nearbyCity |
Aptos, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Campbell, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor | San Jose–Santa Cruz transportation corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Los Gatos, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scotts Valley, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Santa Cruz Mountains forested areas ⓘ |
| region |
Santa Clara County, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Santa Cruz County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Silicon Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadDirection | generally north–south ⓘ |
| roadType |
limited-access highway
ⓘ
mountain highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 17 ⓘ |
| safetyConcern |
adverse weather hazards
ⓘ
high collision rate ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| transportMode | motor vehicle traffic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
goods movement ⓘ tourist traffic ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Santa Cruz, California 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: SR 17 Description of subject: SR 17 is a heavily traveled and winding state highway in California that connects San Jose in Silicon Valley with the city of Santa Cruz across the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
State Route 17 (California)