Minnesota State Highway 26
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Minnesota State Highway 26 is a north–south state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs along the Mississippi River, connecting rural communities near the Iowa border to the regional road network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota State Highway 26 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11589028 — 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: Minnesota State Highway 26 Context triple: [Houston County, Minnesota, hasMajorHighway, Minnesota State Highway 26]
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 23
Minnesota State Highway 23 is a major east–west state highway in Minnesota that spans the state from the South Dakota border to the Duluth area, connecting numerous rural communities and regional centers.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 21
Minnesota State Highway 21 is a state highway in Minnesota that connects several communities in the south-central part of the state, including the city of Faribault.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 22
Minnesota State Highway 22 is a north–south state highway in south-central Minnesota that connects several regional communities and serves as a key route through the Mankato area.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 25
Minnesota State Highway 25 is a north–south state highway in central Minnesota that connects several communities between the Buffalo area and Brainerd, crossing the Mississippi River along its route.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 36
Minnesota State Highway 36 is an east–west state highway in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota that serves as a major commuter and commercial route between Minneapolis–Saint Paul suburbs and western Wisconsin.
- 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: Minnesota State Highway 26 Target entity description: Minnesota State Highway 26 is a north–south state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs along the Mississippi River, connecting rural communities near the Iowa border to the regional road network.
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A.
Minnesota State Highway 23
Minnesota State Highway 23 is a major east–west state highway in Minnesota that spans the state from the South Dakota border to the Duluth area, connecting numerous rural communities and regional centers.
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B.
Minnesota State Highway 21
Minnesota State Highway 21 is a state highway in Minnesota that connects several communities in the south-central part of the state, including the city of Faribault.
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C.
Minnesota State Highway 22
Minnesota State Highway 22 is a north–south state highway in south-central Minnesota that connects several regional communities and serves as a key route through the Mankato area.
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D.
Minnesota State Highway 25
Minnesota State Highway 25 is a north–south state highway in central Minnesota that connects several communities between the Buffalo area and Brainerd, crossing the Mississippi River along its route.
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E.
Minnesota State Highway 36
Minnesota State Highway 36 is an east–west state highway in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota that serves as a major commuter and commercial route between Minneapolis–Saint Paul suburbs and western Wisconsin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
MN 26
NERFINISHED
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TH 26 NERFINISHED ⓘ Trunk Highway 26 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Iowa Highway 26
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minnesota State Highway 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 61 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| followsFeature | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHazard | periodic Mississippi River flooding ⓘ |
| hasScenicCharacteristics |
Mississippi River valley views
ⓘ
river bluffs ⓘ |
| highwayType | Minnesota State Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty | Houston County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southeastern Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedInValley | Driftless Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Minnesota Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| northernTerminus | junction with Minnesota State Highway 16 at La Crescent, Minnesota ⓘ |
| numberingSystem | Minnesota Trunk Highway numbering system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1930s ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad right-of-way (historical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Great River Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork |
Minnesota state highway system
ⓘ
regional road network in southeastern Minnesota ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Brownsville, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
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Hokah, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ La Crescent, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Houston County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 26 ⓘ |
| serves | rural communities near the Iowa border ⓘ |
| southernTerminus | Iowa state line near New Albin, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| speedLimitCategory | rural highway ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local access to rural communities
ⓘ
regional 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: Minnesota State Highway 26 Description of subject: Minnesota State Highway 26 is a north–south state highway in southeastern Minnesota that runs along the Mississippi River, connecting rural communities near the Iowa border to the regional road network.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.