Hokkaido Expressway
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Hokkaido Expressway is a major toll expressway in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido that connects key cities and regions, facilitating long-distance road travel and freight transport.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hokkaido Expressway canonical | 9 |
| Hokkaido Expressway network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2984581 — 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: Hokkaido Expressway Context triple: [Muroran, roadServedBy, Hokkaido Expressway]
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A.
Tohoku Expressway
The Tohoku Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway that runs north from the Tokyo area through several prefectures toward the Tohoku region, serving as one of the country’s primary north–south transportation arteries.
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B.
Hokuriku Expressway
The Hokuriku Expressway is a major Japanese expressway running along the Sea of Japan coast, linking the Hokuriku region with central and western Honshu.
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C.
Kan-Etsu Expressway
The Kan-Etsu Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting the Tokyo metropolitan area with Gunma and Niigata Prefectures, serving as a key route to the Sea of Japan coast and popular ski and hot spring regions.
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D.
Nishi-Meihan Expressway
Nishi-Meihan Expressway is a major expressway in Japan’s Kansai region that connects parts of Osaka and Nara Prefectures, serving as an important route for regional traffic and logistics.
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E.
Tōmei Expressway
The Tōmei Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, serving as a key artery for traffic and freight along the Pacific coast of Honshu.
- 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: Hokkaido Expressway Target entity description: Hokkaido Expressway is a major toll expressway in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido that connects key cities and regions, facilitating long-distance road travel and freight transport.
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A.
Tohoku Expressway
The Tohoku Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway that runs north from the Tokyo area through several prefectures toward the Tohoku region, serving as one of the country’s primary north–south transportation arteries.
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B.
Hokuriku Expressway
The Hokuriku Expressway is a major Japanese expressway running along the Sea of Japan coast, linking the Hokuriku region with central and western Honshu.
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C.
Kan-Etsu Expressway
The Kan-Etsu Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting the Tokyo metropolitan area with Gunma and Niigata Prefectures, serving as a key route to the Sea of Japan coast and popular ski and hot spring regions.
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D.
Nishi-Meihan Expressway
Nishi-Meihan Expressway is a major expressway in Japan’s Kansai region that connects parts of Osaka and Nara Prefectures, serving as an important route for regional traffic and logistics.
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E.
Tōmei Expressway
The Tōmei Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, serving as a key artery for traffic and freight along the Pacific coast of Honshu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Hokkaido Expressway Description of subject: Hokkaido Expressway is a major toll expressway in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido that connects key cities and regions, facilitating long-distance road travel and freight transport.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ebetsu
this entity surface form:
Hokkaido Expressway network
subject surface form:
New Chitose Airport