Conrod Straight
E316502
Conrod Straight is the longest and fastest straight on Australia’s Mount Panorama Circuit, renowned for the high speeds reached during the Bathurst 1000.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Conrod Straight canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2977176 — 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: Conrod Straight Context triple: [Bathurst 1000, notableSection, Conrod Straight]
-
A.
Tillotson
Tillotson is an English surname most notably associated with John Tillotson, a 17th-century Archbishop of Canterbury.
-
B.
Hispano-Suiza 12Y engine
The Hispano-Suiza 12Y engine is a liquid-cooled V-12 aircraft piston engine widely used in the 1930s and World War II, notably powering various European fighter aircraft.
-
C.
Bristol Centaurus radial engine
The Bristol Centaurus radial engine was a powerful British air-cooled sleeve-valve aircraft engine used in late World War II and early postwar high-performance aircraft.
-
D.
Rolls-Royce Kestrel V12 engine
The Rolls-Royce Kestrel V12 engine is a British liquid-cooled aircraft piston engine of the interwar period, widely used in RAF fighters and other military aircraft as an important step in Rolls-Royce’s development of high-performance aero engines.
-
E.
Rolls-Royce Griffon
The Rolls-Royce Griffon is a powerful British liquid-cooled V12 aero engine developed during World War II, best known for powering later, high-performance variants of the Supermarine Spitfire and other Royal Air Force aircraft.
- 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: Conrod Straight Target entity description: Conrod Straight is the longest and fastest straight on Australia’s Mount Panorama Circuit, renowned for the high speeds reached during the Bathurst 1000.
-
A.
Tillotson
Tillotson is an English surname most notably associated with John Tillotson, a 17th-century Archbishop of Canterbury.
-
B.
Hispano-Suiza 12Y engine
The Hispano-Suiza 12Y engine is a liquid-cooled V-12 aircraft piston engine widely used in the 1930s and World War II, notably powering various European fighter aircraft.
-
C.
Bristol Centaurus radial engine
The Bristol Centaurus radial engine was a powerful British air-cooled sleeve-valve aircraft engine used in late World War II and early postwar high-performance aircraft.
-
D.
Rolls-Royce Kestrel V12 engine
The Rolls-Royce Kestrel V12 engine is a British liquid-cooled aircraft piston engine of the interwar period, widely used in RAF fighters and other military aircraft as an important step in Rolls-Royce’s development of high-performance aero engines.
-
E.
Rolls-Royce Griffon
The Rolls-Royce Griffon is a powerful British liquid-cooled V12 aero engine developed during World War II, best known for powering later, high-performance variants of the Supermarine Spitfire and other Royal Air Force aircraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
racing circuit section
ⓘ
straight ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Forest's Elbow
ⓘ
surface form:
Forrest’s Elbow
The Chase ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Australian motorsport culture
ⓘ
Bathurst motor racing history ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| event |
Bathurst 1000
ⓘ
Bathurst 12 Hour ⓘ |
| follows |
Forest's Elbow
ⓘ
surface form:
Forrest’s Elbow
|
| hasFeature |
concrete safety barriers
ⓘ
multiple advertising hoardings ⓘ runoff areas at The Chase end ⓘ slight downhill gradient ⓘ timing and speed trap equipment during events ⓘ very high approach speeds to The Chase ⓘ |
| hasLaneCount | two lanes in normal road use ⓘ |
| hasSection | pit entry lane ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | part of historically significant Mount Panorama motor racing circuit ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the fastest straight on Mount Panorama Circuit
ⓘ
being the longest straight on Mount Panorama Circuit ⓘ very high top speeds ⓘ |
| leadsTo | The Chase ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Bathurst ⓘ
surface form:
Bathurst, New South Wales
New South Wales ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | frequently featured in Bathurst 1000 television broadcasts ⓘ |
| namedAfter | conrod (connecting rod) failures experienced there in early racing ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bathurst 1000 track layout
ⓘ
Mount Panorama Circuit ⓘ public road network when not closed for racing ⓘ |
| regulation | subject to normal road rules outside race events ⓘ |
| roadType | two-way public road outside events ⓘ |
| safetyConcern |
risk of mechanical failure at high speed
ⓘ
very high-speed braking zone into The Chase ⓘ |
| spectatorArea | has spectator viewing areas along the straight ⓘ |
| speedCharacteristic |
cars can exceed 280 km/h in race trim
ⓘ
cars can exceed 300 km/h in qualifying or special runs ⓘ one of the fastest sections in Australian motorsport ⓘ |
| surface | asphalt ⓘ |
| usedBy |
GT racing cars
ⓘ
Supercars Championship season ⓘ
surface form:
Supercars Championship
touring cars ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Bathurst 1000
ⓘ
motorsport racing ⓘ touring car racing ⓘ |
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: Conrod Straight Description of subject: Conrod Straight is the longest and fastest straight on Australia’s Mount Panorama Circuit, renowned for the high speeds reached during the Bathurst 1000.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mount Panorama Circuit
subject surface form:
Mount Panorama Circuit