Kyūshū Expressway
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The Kyūshū Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway that runs the length of Kyūshū, linking its key cities and connecting the island to Honshu via the Kanmon area near Shimonoseki.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kyushu Expressway | 3 |
| Honshu–Kyushu transport link | 1 |
| Kyūshū Expressway canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5158931 — 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: Kyūshū Expressway Context triple: [Shimonoseki, hasExpressway, Kyūshū Expressway]
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A.
Meishin Expressway
The Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway linking the Nagoya and Kobe regions, forming a key part of the transportation network in the Kansai area.
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B.
Chūgoku Expressway
The Chūgoku Expressway is a major Japanese expressway running through the Chūgoku region of Honshu, forming an important arterial route that connects with several other key expressways.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Kinki Expressway
The Kinki Expressway is a major Japanese expressway serving the Kansai (Kinki) region, facilitating high-speed road travel and regional connectivity around cities such as Osaka and Kyoto.
- 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: Kyūshū Expressway Target entity description: The Kyūshū Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway that runs the length of Kyūshū, linking its key cities and connecting the island to Honshu via the Kanmon area near Shimonoseki.
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A.
Meishin Expressway
The Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway linking the Nagoya and Kobe regions, forming a key part of the transportation network in the Kansai area.
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B.
Chūgoku Expressway
The Chūgoku Expressway is a major Japanese expressway running through the Chūgoku region of Honshu, forming an important arterial route that connects with several other key expressways.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Kinki Expressway
The Kinki Expressway is a major Japanese expressway serving the Kansai (Kinki) region, facilitating high-speed road travel and regional connectivity around cities such as Osaka and Kyoto.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expressway
ⓘ
limited-access highway ⓘ toll road ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Fukuoka
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kagoshima NERFINISHED ⓘ Kumamoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsIslandTo | Honshū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsNear | Shimonoseki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsVia | Kanmon area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Kyūshū EXPWY NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAccessControl | full ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
freight transport
ⓘ
intercity transport ⓘ regional connectivity ⓘ |
| hasJunctionType | grade-separated interchanges ⓘ |
| hasLanes | dual carriageway (most sections) ⓘ |
| hasNameInJapanese | 九州自動車道 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | typical Japanese expressway limits ⓘ |
| hasToll | yes ⓘ |
| isKeyInfrastructureFor |
Kyūshū economy
ⓘ
long-distance travel in Kyūshū ⓘ |
| isKeyLinkBetween | northern Kyūshū and southern Kyūshū ⓘ |
| isMajorRouteOn | Kyūshū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfCorridor | Honshū–Kyūshū road corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRestrictedTo | motor vehicles only ⓘ |
| isTollCollectedBy | electronic toll collection system (ETC) ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kyūshū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | NEXCO West Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | national expressway network of Japan ⓘ |
| roadType | expressway standard ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Fukuoka Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kagoshima Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Kumamoto Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Miyazaki Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Nagasaki Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Saga Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Ōita Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kyūshū Expressway Description of subject: The Kyūshū Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway that runs the length of Kyūshū, linking its key cities and connecting the island to Honshu via the Kanmon area near Shimonoseki.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tosu
this entity surface form:
Kyushu Expressway
this entity surface form:
Kyushu Expressway
this entity surface form:
Kyushu Expressway
this entity surface form:
Honshu–Kyushu transport link