A8 motorway (Germany)

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The A8 motorway in Germany is a major east–west autobahn connecting the Luxembourg and French borders through cities like Saarbrücken, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg, and Munich to the Austrian border near Salzburg.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
A8 motorway (Germany) canonical 2
A6 motorway (Germany) 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf autobahn
motorway
connectsTo Austria
Austrian border
French border
Luxembourg border
country Germany
crosses Black Forest
Swabian Jura
hasDirection east–west
hasJunctionWith A1 motorway (Germany)
A3 motorway (Germany)
A5 motorway (Germany)
A8 motorway (Germany) self-linksurface differs
surface form: A6 motorway (Germany)

A7 motorway (Germany)
A9 motorway (Germany)
A99 motorway (Germany)
hasSpeedLimit sections with no general speed limit
sections with posted speed limits
isPartly three-lane each direction
two-lane each direction
knownFor frequent congestion
heavy traffic
steep gradients in Black Forest section
languageOfName German
locatedIn Germany
maintainedBy Germany
surface form: Federal Republic of Germany
officialName Bundesautobahn 8
opened 1930s
partOf European route E45
European route E52
German autobahn network
passesNear Augsburg
Karlsruhe
Munich
Pforzheim
Saarbrücken
Salzburg
Stuttgart
Ulm
passesThrough Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
roadNumber A8
roadType federal motorway
terminusEast Austrian border near Salzburg
terminusWest French border near Saarbrücken
Luxembourg border near Perl

How these facts were elicited

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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: A8 motorway (Germany)
Description of subject: The A8 motorway in Germany is a major east–west autobahn connecting the Luxembourg and French borders through cities like Saarbrücken, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg, and Munich to the Austrian border near Salzburg.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

A7 motorway hasJunctionWith A8 motorway (Germany)
A8 motorway (Germany) hasJunctionWith A8 motorway (Germany) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: A6 motorway (Germany)
A5 motorway (Germany) junctionWith A8 motorway (Germany)