A4 motorway
E376897
The A4 motorway is a major German autobahn running east–west across central Germany, connecting cities such as Aachen, Cologne, Erfurt, Jena, and Dresden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A4 motorway canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2738230 — 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: A4 motorway Context triple: [Jena, hasMotorwayAccess, A4 motorway]
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A.
A4 motorway
The A4 motorway is a major east–west highway in southern Poland that forms part of the European route E40, connecting key cities such as Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków, and the Ukrainian border.
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B.
A4 motorway
The A4 motorway is a major Dutch highway that connects key cities including Amsterdam, The Hague, and Rotterdam, forming part of the European route network.
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C.
A-49 motorway
The A-49 motorway is a German autobahn in the state of Hesse that links the city of Kassel with the Schwalm-Eder region and is planned to be extended further south.
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D.
A2 motorway
The A2 motorway is a major European highway that serves as a key route for long-distance traffic and connects with several important motorways, including the A22.
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E.
A40 motorway
The A40 motorway, nicknamed the "Autoroute Blanche," is a major French alpine highway linking Mâcon to the Mont Blanc region and providing a key route toward Switzerland and Italy.
- 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: A4 motorway Target entity description: The A4 motorway is a major German autobahn running east–west across central Germany, connecting cities such as Aachen, Cologne, Erfurt, Jena, and Dresden.
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A.
A4 motorway
The A4 motorway is a major east–west highway in southern Poland that forms part of the European route E40, connecting key cities such as Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków, and the Ukrainian border.
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B.
A4 motorway
The A4 motorway is a major Dutch highway that connects key cities including Amsterdam, The Hague, and Rotterdam, forming part of the European route network.
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C.
A-49 motorway
The A-49 motorway is a German autobahn in the state of Hesse that links the city of Kassel with the Schwalm-Eder region and is planned to be extended further south.
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D.
A2 motorway
The A2 motorway is a major European highway that serves as a key route for long-distance traffic and connects with several important motorways, including the A22.
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E.
A40 motorway
The A40 motorway, nicknamed the "Autoroute Blanche," is a major French alpine highway linking Mâcon to the Mont Blanc region and providing a key route toward Switzerland and Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | German autobahn ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
European route E-road
ⓘ
surface form:
trans-European road network
|
| connectsCity |
Aachen
ⓘ
Cologne ⓘ Dresden ⓘ Erfurt ⓘ Jena ⓘ |
| connectsToCountry | Poland ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| crossesBorderNear | Görlitz ⓘ |
| crossesRiver |
Elbe
ⓘ
Rhine ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
A1 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A13 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ A17 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ A3 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ A5 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ A7 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ A9 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | dual carriageway ⓘ |
| hasRestArea | multiple rest areas ⓘ |
| hasServiceArea | multiple motorway service areas ⓘ |
| hasTerminus |
Aachen
ⓘ
Görlitz ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Germany ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Germany
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Republic of Germany
|
| partOfCorridor | east–west European transport corridor ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork |
German autobahn network
ⓘ
surface form:
Bundesautobahn network
|
| passesThroughState |
Hesse
ⓘ
North Rhine-Westphalia ⓘ Saxony ⓘ Thuringia ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A4 ⓘ |
| roadType | motorway ⓘ |
| runsNearCity | Gießen ⓘ |
| runsThroughCity |
Aachen
ⓘ
Chemnitz ⓘ Cologne ⓘ Dresden ⓘ Eisenach ⓘ Erfurt ⓘ Jena ⓘ Weimar ⓘ |
| signageColor | blue ⓘ |
| speedLimitSection | varies by segment ⓘ |
| usedFor |
long-distance traffic
ⓘ
regional traffic ⓘ |
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: A4 motorway Description of subject: The A4 motorway is a major German autobahn running east–west across central Germany, connecting cities such as Aachen, Cologne, Erfurt, Jena, and Dresden.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.