US 285
E944532
US 285 is a U.S. highway running generally north–south through parts of Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, connecting rural areas with major cities such as Denver.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US 285 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11744688 — 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: US 285 Context triple: [U.S. Route 285, stateRouteAbbreviation, US 285]
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A.
US 280
US 280 is a major U.S. highway running through Alabama and Georgia, linking cities such as Birmingham, Opelika, and Columbus.
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B.
US 281
US 281 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through the central United States to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
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C.
US 58
US 58 is an east–west U.S. Highway running across southern Virginia, connecting the Cumberland Gap area near the Kentucky-Tennessee border to the Atlantic coast at Virginia Beach.
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D.
US 82
US 82 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern United States, passing through states such as New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
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E.
US 35
US 35 is a United States Numbered Highway running generally northwest–southeast through the Midwest and Appalachia, connecting cities such as Dayton, Ohio, and Charleston, West Virginia.
- 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: US 285 Target entity description: US 285 is a U.S. highway running generally north–south through parts of Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, connecting rural areas with major cities such as Denver.
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A.
US 280
US 280 is a major U.S. highway running through Alabama and Georgia, linking cities such as Birmingham, Opelika, and Columbus.
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B.
US 281
US 281 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from the Mexican border in Texas through the central United States to the Canadian border in North Dakota.
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C.
US 58
US 58 is an east–west U.S. Highway running across southern Virginia, connecting the Cumberland Gap area near the Kentucky-Tennessee border to the Atlantic coast at Virginia Beach.
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D.
US 82
US 82 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the southern United States, passing through states such as New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
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E.
US 35
US 35 is a United States Numbered Highway running generally northwest–southeast through the Midwest and Appalachia, connecting cities such as Dayton, Ohio, and Charleston, West Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | U.S. Highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Alamosa, Colorado
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bailey, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Buena Vista, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Carlsbad, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Cañon City, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Conifer, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Denver, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Fairplay, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Fort Stockton, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Pecos, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Poncha Springs, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Salida, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Fe, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 10
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 25 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ US 180 NERFINISHED ⓘ US 50 NERFINISHED ⓘ US 62 NERFINISHED ⓘ US 84 NERFINISHED ⓘ US 87 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Colorado Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Mexico Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Numbered Highway System ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve NERFINISHED ⓘ Rio Grande National Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Permian Basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rocky Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ San Luis Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeType | US NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Colorado
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Front Range Urban Corridor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South-central Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeastern New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ West Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateHighwayNumber | 285 ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Denver, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic to Denver
ⓘ
regional freight traffic ⓘ rural connectivity ⓘ |
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: US 285 Description of subject: US 285 is a U.S. highway running generally north–south through parts of Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, connecting rural areas with major cities such as Denver.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.