A488 road
E426901
The A488 road is a primary route in western England that runs through Shropshire and connects the town of Shrewsbury with various rural communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A488 road canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1474334 — 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: A488 road Context triple: [Shrewsbury, hasRoadConnection, A488 road]
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A.
A48 road
The A48 road is a major trunk route in South Wales that runs parallel to the M4, connecting towns and cities including Bridgend, Cardiff, and Swansea.
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B.
A487 road
The A487 road is a major trunk route in Wales that runs along the west coast, connecting several key towns and serving as an important link through Gwynedd and Ceredigion.
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C.
A484 road
The A484 road is a primary route in southwest Wales that runs through Carmarthenshire, linking towns such as Llanelli with other key settlements in the region.
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D.
A47 road
The A47 road is a major east–west route in England that connects Birmingham to the east coast, including the town of Great Yarmouth.
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E.
A44 road
The A44 road is a major route in England that runs from Oxford through the Cotswolds and Worcestershire to Aberystwyth in Wales.
- 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: A488 road Target entity description: The A488 road is a primary route in western England that runs through Shropshire and connects the town of Shrewsbury with various rural communities.
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A.
A48 road
The A48 road is a major trunk route in South Wales that runs parallel to the M4, connecting towns and cities including Bridgend, Cardiff, and Swansea.
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B.
A487 road
The A487 road is a major trunk route in Wales that runs along the west coast, connecting several key towns and serving as an important link through Gwynedd and Ceredigion.
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C.
A484 road
The A484 road is a primary route in southwest Wales that runs through Carmarthenshire, linking towns such as Llanelli with other key settlements in the region.
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D.
A47 road
The A47 road is a major east–west route in England that connects Birmingham to the east coast, including the town of Great Yarmouth.
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E.
A44 road
The A44 road is a major route in England that runs from Oxford through the Cotswolds and Worcestershire to Aberystwyth in Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
A road in Great Britain
ⓘ
road ⓘ |
| connects | Shrewsbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| hasDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith | other local roads in Shropshire ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | single carriageway for most of its length ⓘ |
| hasRegion | West Midlands region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoadNumber | A488 ⓘ |
| hasTerminus | Shrewsbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Shropshire
ⓘ
western England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | local highway authorities in Shropshire ⓘ |
| partOf | British road network ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Shropshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadClassification | primary A road ⓘ |
| roadType | primary route ⓘ |
| serves | rural communities in Shropshire ⓘ |
| servesSettlement | Shrewsbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | road transport ⓘ |
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: A488 road Description of subject: The A488 road is a primary route in western England that runs through Shropshire and connects the town of Shrewsbury with various rural communities.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.