M-38
E947888
M-38 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that serves as a key east–west route through Baraga County and surrounding areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M-38 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11800408 — 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: M-38 Context triple: [Baraga County, Michigan, hasMajorHighway, M-38]
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A.
M-39
M-39 is a state highway in Michigan commonly known as the Southfield Freeway, serving as a major north–south commuter route in the Detroit metropolitan area.
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B.
M-35
M-35 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that runs along the shore of Green Bay and connects several communities in Menominee County and beyond.
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C.
M-45
M-45 is a major ring road in the Madrid metropolitan area that helps divert traffic around the city and connect several eastern suburbs.
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D.
M-45
M-45 is a state highway in Michigan that runs east–west through the Grand Rapids area toward the Lake Michigan shoreline.
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E.
M-20
M-20 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs east–west across the central part of the state, connecting communities such as Midland to the broader regional road network.
- 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: M-38 Target entity description: M-38 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that serves as a key east–west route through Baraga County and surrounding areas.
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A.
M-39
M-39 is a state highway in Michigan commonly known as the Southfield Freeway, serving as a major north–south commuter route in the Detroit metropolitan area.
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B.
M-35
M-35 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that runs along the shore of Green Bay and connects several communities in Menominee County and beyond.
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C.
M-45
M-45 is a major ring road in the Madrid metropolitan area that helps divert traffic around the city and connect several eastern suburbs.
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D.
M-45
M-45 is a state highway in Michigan that runs east–west through the Grand Rapids area toward the Lake Michigan shoreline.
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E.
M-20
M-20 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan that runs east–west across the central part of the state, connecting communities such as Midland to the broader regional road network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway in Michigan
ⓘ
state trunkline highway ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Michigan
ⓘ
Transportation in Baraga County, Michigan ⓘ Transportation in Houghton County, Michigan ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
US Highway 41
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
US Highway 45 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminusNear | Baraga, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | key east–west route through Baraga County and surrounding areas ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
M-26
ⓘ
US 41 near Baraga ⓘ |
| highwayType | state highway ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Michigan Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Michigan state trunkline highway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Baraga, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keweenaw Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ L’Anse, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontonagon County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Baraga County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Houghton County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | western Upper Peninsula of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 38 ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| traverses |
forested areas of the Upper Peninsula
ⓘ
rural areas ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local access
ⓘ
regional transportation ⓘ through traffic ⓘ |
| westernTerminusNear | Ontonagon, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: M-38 Description of subject: M-38 is a state trunkline highway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that serves as a key east–west route through Baraga County and surrounding areas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.