Michigan Highway 31
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Michigan Highway 31 is a major north–south state trunkline in Michigan that runs along much of the state’s western side, connecting numerous communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michigan Highway 31 canonical | 1 |
| US Highway 31 in Ferrysburg, Michigan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11102280 — 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: Michigan Highway 31 Context triple: [Chums Corner, Michigan, transportJunctionOf, Michigan Highway 31]
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A.
Michigan Highway 37
Michigan Highway 37 is a north–south state trunkline in Michigan that runs through the northwestern Lower Peninsula, connecting Grand Rapids to the Traverse City area.
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B.
Michigan State Highway 35
Michigan State Highway 35 is a former state trunkline route in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that once ran along the western shore of Green Bay, connecting communities such as Menominee and Escanaba.
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C.
Michigan Highway 28
Michigan Highway 28 is a major east–west state trunkline in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that connects numerous communities and serves as a key regional transportation route.
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D.
Michigan State Highway 106
Michigan State Highway 106 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that primarily serves the Jackson County area, connecting local communities and providing regional access.
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E.
Michigan State Highway 55
Michigan State Highway 55 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula that connects several communities, including passing through Cadillac.
- 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: Michigan Highway 31 Target entity description: Michigan Highway 31 is a major north–south state trunkline in Michigan that runs along much of the state’s western side, connecting numerous communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
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A.
Michigan Highway 37
Michigan Highway 37 is a north–south state trunkline in Michigan that runs through the northwestern Lower Peninsula, connecting Grand Rapids to the Traverse City area.
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B.
Michigan State Highway 35
Michigan State Highway 35 is a former state trunkline route in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that once ran along the western shore of Green Bay, connecting communities such as Menominee and Escanaba.
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C.
Michigan Highway 28
Michigan Highway 28 is a major east–west state trunkline in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that connects numerous communities and serves as a key regional transportation route.
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D.
Michigan State Highway 106
Michigan State Highway 106 is a state trunkline route in Michigan that primarily serves the Jackson County area, connecting local communities and providing regional access.
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E.
Michigan State Highway 55
Michigan State Highway 55 is an east–west state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula that connects several communities, including passing through Cadillac.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former state trunkline
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| category |
Former state highways in Michigan
ⓘ
State trunkline highways in Michigan ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Charlevoix, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grand Rapids, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Holland, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Ludington, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mackinaw City, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Manistee, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Muskegon, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Petoskey, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Traverse City, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerRouteNumberReusedAs | US Highway 31 in Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Michigan State Trunkline Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Lower Peninsula of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | western Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Michigan Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
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Michigan State Highway Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| parallels | Lake Michigan shoreline ⓘ |
| partOf | regional transportation network of western Michigan ⓘ |
| replacedBy | US Highway 31 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| servedFunction |
access route to Lake Michigan coastal communities
ⓘ
intercity highway ⓘ regional connector route ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile traffic
ⓘ
regional freight movement ⓘ tourist travel along Lake Michigan ⓘ truck 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: Michigan Highway 31 Description of subject: Michigan Highway 31 is a major north–south state trunkline in Michigan that runs along much of the state’s western side, connecting numerous communities and serving as a key regional transportation route.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chums Corner, Michigan
subject surface form:
M-104 (Michigan highway)
this entity surface form:
US Highway 31 in Ferrysburg, Michigan