Route 21
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Route 21 is a key state highway in New Jersey that runs along the Passaic River, serving as a major commuter and industrial corridor between Newark and Paterson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Route 21 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11683657 — 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: Route 21 Context triple: [Passaic, New Jersey, majorRoad, Route 21]
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A.
Route 18
Route 18 is a major state highway in central New Jersey that serves as a key north–south corridor connecting communities such as New Brunswick and Sayreville.
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B.
Route 210
Route 210 is a highway in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that serves as a primary transportation corridor on the Burin Peninsula.
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C.
Route 211
Route 211 is a regional road on Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula that connects several small coastal communities to the peninsula’s main highway network.
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D.
Route 42
Route 42 is a major highway in southern New Jersey that serves as a key connector between the Philadelphia area and shore destinations in Gloucester and neighboring counties.
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E.
Route 17
Route 17 is a state highway designation in Massachusetts used for a specific segment of roadway within the state's numbered route system.
- 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: Route 21 Target entity description: Route 21 is a key state highway in New Jersey that runs along the Passaic River, serving as a major commuter and industrial corridor between Newark and Paterson.
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A.
Route 18
Route 18 is a major state highway in central New Jersey that serves as a key north–south corridor connecting communities such as New Brunswick and Sayreville.
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B.
Route 210
Route 210 is a highway in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that serves as a primary transportation corridor on the Burin Peninsula.
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C.
Route 211
Route 211 is a regional road on Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula that connects several small coastal communities to the peninsula’s main highway network.
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D.
Route 42
Route 42 is a major highway in southern New Jersey that serves as a key connector between the Philadelphia area and shore destinations in Gloucester and neighboring counties.
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E.
Route 17
Route 17 is a state highway designation in Massachusetts used for a specific segment of roadway within the state's numbered route system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
limited-access highway
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| accessControl | partial access control ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in New Jersey
ⓘ
Transportation in Essex County, New Jersey ⓘ Transportation in Passaic County, New Jersey ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Newark, New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
Newark
Paterson, New Jersey ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| function |
industrial corridor
ⓘ
major commuter corridor ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 280
ⓘ
Interstate 80 ⓘ New Jersey Route 3 ⓘ New Jersey Route 7 ⓘ U.S. Route 46 ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | multi-lane divided highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
North Jersey
|
| maintainedBy | New Jersey Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Passaic River corridor
ⓘ
linked to:
Passaic River watershed
|
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Passaic River ⓘ |
| partOf | New Jersey State Highway System ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Essex County, New Jersey
ⓘ
Passaic County, New Jersey ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Newark metropolitan area
ⓘ
Paterson metropolitan area ⓘ |
| roadType |
expressway
ⓘ
freeway ⓘ |
| runsAlong | Passaic River ⓘ |
| servesArea |
industrial areas along the Passaic River
ⓘ
residential neighborhoods in Newark ⓘ residential neighborhoods in Paterson ⓘ |
| state |
New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| terminusNorth |
Paterson, New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
Paterson
|
| terminusSouth |
Newark, New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
Newark
|
| transportRole | regional arterial route ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
industrial 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: Route 21 Description of subject: Route 21 is a key state highway in New Jersey that runs along the Passaic River, serving as a major commuter and industrial corridor between Newark and Paterson.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.