M40
E226183
M40 is a major British motorway linking London with Birmingham and the West Midlands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M40 canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2013950 — 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: M40 Context triple: [M40 motorway, routeNumber, M40]
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A.
M45
M45 is the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye and known since antiquity.
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B.
M44
M44 is an open star cluster in the constellation Cancer, also known as the Beehive Cluster or Praesepe, and is one of the nearest and most prominent clusters visible to the naked eye.
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C.
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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D.
M60
M60 is a major orbital motorway encircling the city of Manchester in Greater Manchester, England.
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E.
M20
M20 is a major motorway in South East England connecting London to the Channel Tunnel and the port of Dover.
- 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: M40 Target entity description: M40 is a major British motorway linking London with Birmingham and the West Midlands.
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A.
M45
M45 is the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye and known since antiquity.
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B.
M44
M44 is an open star cluster in the constellation Cancer, also known as the Beehive Cluster or Praesepe, and is one of the nearest and most prominent clusters visible to the naked eye.
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C.
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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D.
M60
M60 is a major orbital motorway encircling the city of Manchester in Greater Manchester, England.
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E.
M20
M20 is a major motorway in South East England connecting London to the Channel Tunnel and the port of Dover.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: M40 Description of subject: M40 is a major British motorway linking London with Birmingham and the West Midlands.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.