CA 17
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CA 17 is a major and often congested highway in California that connects the San Jose area in Silicon Valley with the city of Santa Cruz over the Santa Cruz Mountains.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CA 17 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11154416 — 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: CA 17 Context triple: [State Route 17 (California), abbreviation, CA 17]
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A.
CA 178
CA 178 is a California state highway that runs east–west through the southern Sierra Nevada, connecting Bakersfield to the Mojave Desert and Death Valley region.
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B.
CA 14
CA 14 is a major north–south California state highway connecting Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert and serving as a key route to communities in the Antelope Valley.
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C.
CA 237
CA 237 is a short east–west state highway in California’s San Francisco Bay Area that connects Mountain View and Milpitas, serving as a key commuter and tech-corridor route.
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D.
CA 37
CA 37 is a state highway in Northern California that runs along the northern edge of San Pablo Bay, connecting U.S. Route 101 in Marin County to Interstate 80 in Solano County.
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E.
CA 2
CA 2 is a California state highway that runs from Santa Monica through Los Angeles into the San Gabriel Mountains, serving as both an urban thoroughfare and a scenic mountain route.
- 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: CA 17 Target entity description: CA 17 is a major and often congested highway in California that connects the San Jose area in Silicon Valley with the city of Santa Cruz over the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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A.
CA 178
CA 178 is a California state highway that runs east–west through the southern Sierra Nevada, connecting Bakersfield to the Mojave Desert and Death Valley region.
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B.
CA 14
CA 14 is a major north–south California state highway connecting Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert and serving as a key route to communities in the Antelope Valley.
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C.
CA 237
CA 237 is a short east–west state highway in California’s San Francisco Bay Area that connects Mountain View and Milpitas, serving as a key commuter and tech-corridor route.
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D.
CA 37
CA 37 is a state highway in Northern California that runs along the northern edge of San Pablo Bay, connecting U.S. Route 101 in Marin County to Interstate 80 in Solano County.
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E.
CA 2
CA 2 is a California state highway that runs from Santa Monica through Los Angeles into the San Gabriel Mountains, serving as both an urban thoroughfare and a scenic mountain route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
California State Route
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
SR 17
ⓘ
State Route 17 ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Highway 17
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Santa Cruz Highway ⓘ
linked to:
Old Santa Cruz Highway
|
| connectsCity |
San Jose
ⓘ
Santa Cruz ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
California State Route 1
ⓘ
California State Route 85 ⓘ Interstate 280 ⓘ Interstate 880 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasLanes | typically 4 lanes through the mountains ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | approximately 50–65 mph depending on segment ⓘ |
| highwayType | state highway ⓘ |
| isMajorCorridorFor | San Jose–Santa Cruz travel ⓘ |
| knownFor |
heavy traffic congestion
ⓘ
high collision rate ⓘ winding mountain segments ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty |
Santa Clara County
ⓘ
Santa Cruz County ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Cruz County, California
|
| maintainedBy |
California Department of Transportation
ⓘ
linked to:
Caltrans
|
| mountainPass | Patchen Pass ⓘ |
| northernTerminusConnection |
Interstate 280
ⓘ
Interstate 880 ⓘ |
| partOf |
California State Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
California state highway system
|
| passesThrough | Santa Cruz Mountains ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
recreational access route
ⓘ
regional commuter route ⓘ |
| region | Northern California ⓘ |
| roadConfiguration |
divided highway
ⓘ
expressway segments ⓘ freeway segments ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 17 ⓘ |
| safetyConcern |
adverse weather conditions in winter
ⓘ
sharp curves ⓘ steep grades ⓘ |
| safetyFeature | median barriers in many segments ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Monterey Bay area
ⓘ
linked to:
Monterey Bay Area
Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| southernTerminusConnection | California State Route 1 ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| terminusDirection |
north
ⓘ
south ⓘ |
| terminusPoint |
San Jose
ⓘ
Santa Cruz ⓘ |
| usedFor | commuting between Santa Cruz and Silicon Valley ⓘ |
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: CA 17 Description of subject: CA 17 is a major and often congested highway in California that connects the San Jose area in Silicon Valley with the city of Santa Cruz over the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
State Route 17
subject linked to:
California State Route 17 (nearby via Santa Cruz)