M26 motorway
E405533
The M26 motorway is a short English motorway in Kent that links the M25 and M20, serving as a key connector for traffic between London and the Channel ports.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M26 motorway canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1754315 — 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: M26 motorway Context triple: [M20 motorway, hasJunctionWith, M26 motorway]
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A.
M61 motorway
The M61 motorway is a major road in North West England linking Manchester to Preston and providing a key route between Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
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B.
M27 motorway
The M27 motorway is a major road in southern England that runs east–west along the south coast, linking the New Forest area with Southampton and Portsmouth.
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C.
M67 motorway
The M67 motorway is a short motorway in North West England that links the M60 near Manchester towards Hyde and is intended as the first section of a never-completed route to Sheffield.
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D.
M-9 Motorway
The M-9 Motorway is a major Pakistani expressway that links the cities of Karachi and Hyderabad in the province of Sindh.
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E.
M65 motorway
The M65 motorway is a key road in Lancashire, England, linking Preston with towns across East Lancashire and connecting to the wider UK motorway network.
- 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: M26 motorway Target entity description: The M26 motorway is a short English motorway in Kent that links the M25 and M20, serving as a key connector for traffic between London and the Channel ports.
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A.
M61 motorway
The M61 motorway is a major road in North West England linking Manchester to Preston and providing a key route between Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
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B.
M27 motorway
The M27 motorway is a major road in southern England that runs east–west along the south coast, linking the New Forest area with Southampton and Portsmouth.
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C.
M67 motorway
The M67 motorway is a short motorway in North West England that links the M60 near Manchester towards Hyde and is intended as the first section of a never-completed route to Sheffield.
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D.
M-9 Motorway
The M-9 Motorway is a major Pakistani expressway that links the cities of Karachi and Hyderabad in the province of Sindh.
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E.
M65 motorway
The M65 motorway is a key road in Lancashire, England, linking Preston with towns across East Lancashire and connecting to the wider UK motorway network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
motorway
ⓘ
road in England ⓘ |
| accessControlled | yes ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
M20 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
M25 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasCarriageway |
eastbound carriageway
ⓘ
westbound carriageway ⓘ |
| hasGradeSeparation | yes ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
M20 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
M25 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoadStandard | motorway standard ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | 70 mph ⓘ |
| isTollRoad | no ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Kent ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | National Highways ⓘ |
| partOf | British motorway network ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor |
London to Folkestone route
ⓘ
surface form:
London–Channel ports route
|
| primaryFunction |
connector between M25 and M20
ⓘ
link between London and Channel ports ⓘ |
| regionServed | South East England ⓘ |
| roadNumber | M26 ⓘ |
| roadType | dual carriageway ⓘ |
| servesCity |
M25 motorway
ⓘ
surface form:
London (via M25)
|
| servesPort |
Dover (via M20)
ⓘ
Folkestone (via M20) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight traffic to Channel ports
ⓘ
long‑distance 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: M26 motorway Description of subject: The M26 motorway is a short English motorway in Kent that links the M25 and M20, serving as a key connector for traffic between London and the Channel ports.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.